[Design for the southeast corner of Strawberry Hill] [art original].

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Title: [Design for the southeast corner of Strawberry Hill] [art original].
Creator: Chute, John, 1701-1776
Published / Created: [not before 1753?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A pencil sketch of the southeast corner of Strawberry Hill, the home of Horace Walpole, shown with a tree along side the villa and a view of the grove of trees beyond
Description: Title devised by curator.
John Chute (1701-1776), English architect and connoisseur of the arts and literature, member of Horace Walpole's 'committee of taste.'
Drawn on the verso of the back free endpaper in Horace Walpole's copy of Batty and Thomas Langley's Ancient architecture restored and improved by a great variety of grand an dusefull designs (London, 1742).
Original vellum. With Horace Walpole's bookplate. Press-mark E.3.15. Bookplate (19th century) of John Heugh. Pencil sketch by Chute of a proposed design for the south-east corner of Strawberry Hill, on fly-leaf at end.
Provenance: Strawberry Hill Sale (1842), vii.25 to H.G. Bohn; offered in Bohn's Catalogue for 1847, p. 223; Lady Waldegrave from W.V. Harcourt 6 July 1887. Purchased by W.S. Lewis 1948 from Lord Waldegrave. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, ii.67 (with Wree), to Pickering, £1.12.0; offered in Strong's Catalogue for 1843, lot 882, for £1.16.0. Weyhe, December 1936, to W.S. Lewis,
Extent: 1 drawing : image 17 x 18 cm, on sheet 22 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Graphite drawings British 18th century
Material: pencil ; and laid paper 9 x 14 9/16 in.
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: John Chute, Design for the Southeast Corner of Strawberry Hill]. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.