[Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Printing house at Strawberry Hill
Creator: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
Published / Created: [1783]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
Description: Title from original drawing in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University; also the title of a later state with aquatint by F. Jukes.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title and printmaker's name.
State before aquatinting was added?
Title handwritten on mount: Printing house at Strawberry Hill.
Lewis Walpole Library: On verso, possibly in the artist's hand: The seat of the Honle. H. Walpole, in the Parish of Twickenham.
Manuscript note on verso: "The Seat of the Hon[able] H. Walpole, in the Parish of Twickenham."
Mounted on board image framed with gray wash-lines, to 37 x 42 cm.
Provenance: Sotheby's, 2 August 1939 (property of a gentleman), to Maggs for W.S. Lewis,
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36.2 x 42 cm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England London 1740
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Estates
Printers
Outbuildings
Subjects: Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Estates
Printers
Outbuildings
England > London > 1740

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