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Gothic lantern
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Title
[Gothic lantern] [realia].
Production
[England], [approximately 1755]
Physical Description
1 item : mixed materials ; height 109.2 x width 35.6 x depth 37 cm
Medium
Colored, stained, and enameled glass set in an iron, lead, and painted tin frame
Notes
Title from: Snodin, M. Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill.
Text from 1774 and 1784 editions of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, ... at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex ...: 4 [Entrance]: "In the well of the staircase, by a cord of black and yellow, hangs a gothic lanthorn of tin japanned, designed by Mr. Bentley, and filled with painted glass; the door of it has an old pane with the arms of Vere, earl of Oxford."
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A curious gothic lanthorn, fitted with very fine ancient stained glass.
Exhibited: "A Treasure House in Farmington," Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 15 October 1999-9 January 2000, cat. no 2.
Exhibited: "Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill," Yale Center for British Art 15 October 2009-3 January 2010; Victoria and Albert Museum 5 March 2010 - 4 July 1010, cat. no. 49.
Provenance
Made for Horace Walpole by William Hallett, 1755, £2.14.0 (Accounts); 1842, Strawberry Hill Sale, day 17, lot 112, bought by John Dent, Esq. £5.15.6. To W.S. Lewis from John Dent Brocklehurst, July 1935, for a £5 donation to a local charity.
Summary
A gothic lantern using colored, stained, and enamaled glass using15th and 16th century glass, set in an iron, lead, and painted tin frame. Designed by Richard Bentley and Horace Walpole. Formerly located in the Entrance of Strawberry Hill.
Variant and related titles
Gothic lanthorn
Other formats
Also available as a digital reproduction.
Format
Other
Added to Catalog
March 21, 2019
References
Snodin, M., ed. Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, no. 49
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Furniture.
Hall lanterns.
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