The Strawberry Hill sale [art original].

Description

Title: The Strawberry Hill sale [art original].
Published / Created: [1842]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: An auctioneer with gavel in raised hand presides over a crowd of bidders wearing tall top hats and long coats as they frantically scribble notes and examine items indistinclty depicted in the background
Description: Title from a later caption inscribed in graphite pencil below image.
Date based on the date of the sale of Horace Walpole's collections at Strawberry Hill.
Curatorial note: The scene in the drawing may not depict The Strawberry Hill sale due to a lack of specific details.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Sotheby's Olympia lot 242 to Bernard Quaritch, 2 July 2003. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, July 2003.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 15.2 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Wash drawings
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Auctions
Auctioneers
Gavels
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
Auctions
Auctioneers
Gavels

Access: Public
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Citation: The Strawberry Hill Sale. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.