Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire [art original]

Description

Title: Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire [art original]
Creator: Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
Published / Created: [1793]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A view of Newstead Abbey as seen from the front beyond the surrounding stone wall. Two boys, one leaning on the wall the other sitting on it, watch as a coach pulls around the circular drive, in the center of which stands a fountain
Description: Title and artist from ms. note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand.
Inscribed by artist in lower right corner of image: "J.C. Barrow."
Ms. note in pencil, in an unidentified hand, on mount below image: "In the summer of 1798, B. [i.e. Byron] took possession of Newstead Abbey. Drawing was bought at the sale of Horace Walpole's collection, Strawberry Hill, in the year 1842."
Probably part of the collection sold at the StrawberryHill sale, viii, 154, dispersed as described in A.T. Hazen's Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3678.
Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 23.4 x 34 cm, mount 28.1 x 37.3 cm
Language: English

Genre: Views
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor with pen and ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Nottinghamshire.
Subject (Name): Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Newstead Abbey.
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Abbeys
Dwellings
Historic buildings
Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 > Homes and haunts > England > Nottinghamshire
Newstead Abbey
Abbeys > England > Nottinghamshire
Dwellings
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Dwellings > England > Nottinghamshire
Historic buildings > England > Nottinghamshire

Access: Public
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Citation: Joseph Charles Barrow, Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.