"A 'park wall' and 'back parlour'" [art original]

2026-04-25T05:46:04-04:00

Creator:

Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist

Published / Created:

[1885]

Call Number:

Folio 225 884S Copy 2

Collection Title:

Volume 12, page 214. Horace Walpole and his world.

Image Count:

1

Resource Type:

still image

Abstract:

Drawing with two scenes: 'the back parlour" in an oval within a larger rectangular view of a 'park wall'. The park wall is covered in ivy and at its base, lush ferns and other plants and mushrooms, ferns and at the top a stand of trees. The oval inset...

Description:

Title written below image, from a quotation by Horace Walpole's letter to Miss Berry December 1793: "A park-wall with ivy on it and fern near it, and a back parlour in London in summer, with a dead creeper and a couple of sooty sparrows, are my strong...

Subject (Topic):

Parlors, Garden walls, Casement windows, and Depression (Mental state)

Found in:

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