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View of Richmond Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house from the terrace at Strawberry Hill, 1772
Title
View of Richmond Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house from the terrace at Strawberry Hill, 1772 [art original] / W. Pars, A.R.A. 1742-1782.
Production
[Twickenham] , [1772]
Physical Description
1 drawing : watercolor with pen and ink ; image 37.5 x 51 cm, on sheet 44.8 x 58.9 cm
Medium
laid paper on wash-line mount.
Notes
Title, date and artist information written in ink below image, in an unidentified hand.
Inscribed by Horace Walpole on the verso: View of Richmond-hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house, from the terrass at Strawberry-hill, by Mr. Pars 1772.
Exhibited: "Fame and Friendship: Pope, Roubiliac, and the Portrait Bust in Eighteenth-Century Britiain," at The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, February - May 2014.
Exhibited: "Fame and Friendship: Pope, Roubiliac, and the Portrait Bust in Eighteenth-Century Britiain," at The Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, June - October 2014.
Provenance
Sold at the Strawberry Hill, London Sale lot 1247 bought by William Knight, £3.3.0 i.a. Sold at the Walker's Galleries, London to W.S. Lewis, August, 1931, £63.
Sold at the Strawberry Hill sale, day viii, lot 154.
Summary
View of the trees and field leading down to the Thames River. In the distance is Richmond Hill and Pope's home on the left, as seen from the terrace of Horace Walpole's villa, Strawberry Hill. In the foreground, a cowman sits against the nearest tree as two cows lay in the grass, a third cow stands nearby.
Variant and related titles
View of Richmond-Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house from the terrass at Strawberry Hill, 1772
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 24, 2011
References
Gascoigne, B. Images of Twickenham. Richmond-upon-Thames : Saint Helena Press, 1981, 294
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, 3678
William Pars, View of Richmond-Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's House from the Terrace at Strawberry Hill, 1772. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
William Pars, View of Richmond-Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's House from the Terrace at Strawberry Hill, 1772. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Views.
Landscape drawings.
Watercolors - British - 18th century.
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