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Screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberryhill
Title
Screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberryhill [art original].
Production
[Strawberry Hill], [1758 or 1759?]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and ink with grey and brown wash with pencil ; image 16.5 x 18.9 cm, on sheet 31.3 x 26.5 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink at bottom of sheet.
Formerly mounted on leaf 55 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Date from J. Harris.
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
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 57, to William Knight, Esq., £4.2.0; London sale number lot 1255 of the 10th day of sale, with the lot number still preserved on spine. Sold by Spencer through Fletcher to W.S. Lewis for £210, May 1926.
Summary
A drawing of a design for the screen in the Holbein Chamber at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex. With additions in pencil above and below. One of three designs for the screen included in Walpole's album of Bentley drawings.
Variant and related titles
Screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 17, 2008
References
Harris, J. Catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening, 1550-1900, in American collections, p. 25.
Richard Bentley, Screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberryhill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Richard Bentley, Screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberryhill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Design drawings.
Wash drawings - British - 18th century.
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