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The eruption of Vesuvius, 1779
Title
The eruption of Vesuvius, 1779 [art original].
Production
[England?], [not before 1779]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and ink and watercolor ; sheet 7.9 x 12.3 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title and date from contemporary note in ink on a separate sheet, mounted below drawing.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Mounted on page 186 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 127, to Graves, Pall-Mall, £1.5.0. [London, 1258]. Inserted into Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of the 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) when the volume was rebound soon after 1844. Sotheby's, 26 July 1855 (Charles Meigh Sale), lot 1822, to Toovey; Anderson, 12 November 1919 (Avery Sale), lot 961, to George D. Smith for the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library, $375. New York Public Library, February 1950, to W.S. Lewis, by exchange to Yale for the Lewis Walpole Collection.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 07, 2020
References
The Eruption of Vesuvius, 1779. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
The Eruption of Vesuvius, 1779. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
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Ink drawings.
Watercolors.
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