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.