Strawberry Hill [art original].

Description

Title: Strawberry Hill [art original].
Alternative Title: Strawberry Hill southeast view
Creator: Owen, Samuel, 1768-1857, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title written in unknown hand at bottom right of image.
Label pasted below image on mount: "Drawn by S. Owen. Engraved by W.B. Cooke. Strawberry Hill. Seat of the Honble. Mrs. Damer." Label probably from a much later engraving published by Cooke.
Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection.
Samuel Owen (1768/9-1857), marine painter. He supplied a series of eighty-four drawings which were engraved by William Bernard Cooke for his work The Thames (1811), and seven others for the Picturesque Tour on the River Thames, published by Owen himself and William Westall in 1828.
Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Provenance: This drawing is possibly one of a collection dispersed at the Strawberry Hill Sale, 1842, viii, 154. Chewton Collection of Lord Waldegrave, to W.S. Lewis, 1948.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 174 x 234 mm, mount 318 x 257 mm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
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Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Dwellings
Estates
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Dwellings > England
Estates > England
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Samuel Owen, Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.