Local Notes
LWL 49 2528B: Bound in blue morocco. One MS. corr. (p. 34)
LWL 49 2528B: Horace Walpole's copy--the one kept in the Beauclerc closet to explain Lady Diana Beauclerk's drawings.--cf. Horace Walpole's note; 1784 Description, p. 79.
LWL 49 2528B: xviii. 31 in Strawberry Hill sale. Later owners include Col. George Lionel Dawson-Damer; Col. John Aldridge.
LWL 49 2528B: Thorpe, Sept. 1944.
Provenance
Sold in Strawberry Hill Sale day xviii, lot 31, to Col. Dawson Damer, M.P., for £4.10.0; Christie's, 1 August 1885 (Property of a Gentleman), lot 74 (with the drawings themselves), to Col. Aldridge (Lady Di's granddaughter married Robert Aldridge in 1829); Thorpe, September 1944, to W.S. Lewis, £50. Six of the original seven drawings were sold by Pickering & Chatto, April 1962, to W.S. Lewis.