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A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole : youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill at Twickenham, Middlesex. With an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.
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A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole : youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill at Twickenham, Middlesex. With an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.
Published
Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description
iv, 96 p. : ill., maps, plans, plates (some col. and fold.) ; 28 cm
Notes
Exhibited: "Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill," at The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, October 2009 - January 2010.
Exhibited: "Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill," at The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, March - June 2010.
Provenance
Sotheby's 25 June 1886 (Cheney Sale), lot 1904.
Sotheby's 10 April 1945 (Property of a Lady), lot 553 to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Sotheby's 12 June 1933 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 365.
Sotheby's 3 July 1935 (W.H. Wykeham Musgrave sale), lot 462 to Maggs for Lord Rothschild.
Frank Woore of Derby, April 1934 to Pickering and Chatto.
Inscribed: Constance Strachey from her affectionate uncle. [Signed] Carlingford, Dudbrook, July 4, 1885.
Christie's 15 December 1947 (Waller sale), lot 26 to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Sir Thomas Phillipps (see Middle Hill Catalog).
Given by Mrs. Damer to Sir Wathen Waller. Sotheby's, 14 March 1956, lot 584.
Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
On front pastedown inscription of: R. E. Gathorne-Hardy, 1924.
Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Bequeathed to James Wyatt; owned by Albert Landsberg whose widow Dorothea gave it to W.S. Lewis.
Bequeathed to John Wheeler; owned by Aubrey J. Toppin, York Herald.
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day vii, lot 41 (with Hardwicke), to Lilly, £3.19.0 [London, 1159].
Not listed in Strawberry Hill sale catalogue. Former owners include: Joseph Walter King Eyton; Peter Cunningham; 9th earl Waldegrave; Sir F. Newdigate-Newdegate (George D. Smith); Frederic William Goudy.
Sotheby's 20 December 1823 (Brockett Sale), lot 2979 to Cuthell ; offered in Longman's Catalogue 1829, lot 4019 ; offered to Lilly's Catalogue, 1843.
Formerly owned by S.A. Courtauld in 1942.
Lord Walpole's sale, Christie's, 6 December 1989, lot 223.
Other formats
Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy available as in a pdf.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 22, 2006
References
Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, no. 30, copy 2
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3582
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Armorial bindings (Provenance)
Armorial bindings (Binding)
Drawings.
Engravings - England - 18th century.
Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance)
Original art.
Portrait prints.
Watercolors.
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Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
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