[The library] [art original].

Description

Title: [The library] [art original].
Creator: Martin, Elias, 1739-1818, artist
Published / Created: [1771?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A young woman leans on a large terrestrial globe as she reads a manuscript. Behind her is a bust displayed on a table near a wall lined with well-stocked bookshelves
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Inscribed by Horace Walpole on label on former mount: "Elias Martin fec. 1771 a Swede came over in 1768, son of a cabinet maker."
Inscribed on label on former mount by a later hand: "Elias Martin 1771 from the Strawberry Hill Collection bought at the sale 1842."
Formerly hung in the "red bed chamber" at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, home of Horace Walpole. Sold at the 1842 London sale as one of the "Four humourous drawings, washed, perfectly unique of their kind, by Elias Martin."
One of the companion paintings is also in the Lewis Walpole Library. See Martin's "The music room."
Provenance: Strawberry Hill Sale, xxii, lot 73, 1842, to George Robins, Esq. £1.11.0. Sabin, sold to W.S. Lewis, March 1970, £250.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval sheet 168 x 136 mm, mounted to 23 x 20 cm
Language: English

Genre: Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: brown wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Reading
Young women
Private libraries
Sculpture
Globes
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Reading
Young women
Private libraries
Sculpture
Globes
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Elias Martin, The Library. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.