Chimney in the Blue Bed Chamber [graphic]

Description

Title: Chimney in the Blue Bed Chamber [graphic]
Alternative Title: Chimney in the Blue Bedchamber
Creator: Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
Contributor: Bentley, R. 1708-1782, designer.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Published / Created: [approximately 1784]
Publication Place: Strawberry-Hill
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Abstract: Depiction of the chimneypiece, designed by Richard Bentley, commissioned by Horace Walpole for the Blue Bed Chamber of Strawberry Hill
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.
Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 64 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 15.1 x 12.7 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 12.8 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Etchings England 1784
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Chimneypieces
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Chimneypieces
England > 1784
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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