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East front of Strawberry Hill
Title
East front of Strawberry Hill [graphic].
Publication
[London] : [G.G. and J. Robinson], [1798]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 19.6 cm x 33.7 cm, on sheet 29.4 x 41.6 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Printmaker unidentified; after a drawing by Paul Sandby.
Later state of the plate, with volume and page numbering added in upper right corner. Plate originally engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Plate from: The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London : Printed for G.G and J. Robinson, 1798, v. 2.
Numbered in the upper right: Vol. II. Pl. II. P. 512.
Original: Watercolor in The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. Sandby, Paul. East Front of Strawberry Hill.
Provenance
Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Summary
"View of the Gothic mansion with pinnacles on the battlemented roof and pointed arched windows, seen across the lawn to the right, surrounded by trees, with others to the left and two men in the left foreground, one sweeping the lawn, the other guiding a horse which draws a roller."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 03, 2011
References
Gascoigne, B. Images of Twickenham. Richmond-upon-Thames : Saint Helena Press, 1981, 272a
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Views.
Book illustrations.
Etchings - England - London - 1798.
Engravings - England - London - 1798.
Also listed under
G. G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row, London, England), publisher.
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