[Frederic and the spectre] [art original].

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Title
[Frederic and the spectre] [art original].
Creator
Greatheed, Bertie, 1781-1804, artist
Published / Created
[1796]
Publication Place
England
Abstract

Frederic in search of Hippolita enters her oratory only to recoil in horror at the sight of a specter wrapped in a hermit's cowl. The specter rests its hand on a book laid open on the altar above which hangs a crucifix. Behind them, two shelves built into the wall are filled with books and an ink well with two feather pens

Description
Title devised by curator.
Date based on Horace Walpole's letter (dated 22 February 1796) to Bertie Greatheed's father in which he admires his son's four drawings that were inspired by his reading of The Castle of Otranto. All four drawings are bound in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of The Castle of Otranto (Lewis Walpole Library 49 3729).
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day vii, lot 76 (with Italian translation of 1795), to Payne & Foss, £1.11.6 [London, 1030]; Puttick, 1 May 1884 (Gosford Sale), lot 3071, to Harvey, £7; Christie's, 1 April 1897 (Reginald Cholmondeley Sale), lot 114, to Quaritch, £11.5.0; thence to John W. Ford, who owned this copy in 1905; Sotheby's, 21 May 1909 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 362, to B. F. Stevens, £15.5.0; Anderson, 19 January 1912 (Hoe Sale, Part 2), lot 3420, $60; Sotheby's, 10 December 1913 (Hoe Books), lot 173, to Edwards, £7; thence to the Earl of Cromer. Solf by Edwards,March 1937, to W.S. Lewis, for £20.
Extent
1 drawing : image 217 x 142 mm, mounted to 247 x 169 mm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
49 3729

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Illustrations
Amateur works
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material
brown ink and sepia wash ;
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic)
Chapels
Fear
Ghosts
Subjects
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Illustrations
Chapels
Fear
Ghosts
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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Rights
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Citation
Bertie Greatheed, Frederic and the Spectre. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
11146699
Object ID (OID)
11001128

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