[A conversation] [art original]

Description

Title: [A conversation] [art original]
Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, artist
Contributor: Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721, artist.
Published / Created: [1737]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Horace Walpole's watercolor of an amorous young couple. Formerly hung in the Red Bedchamber in Strawberry Hill
Description: Dated and signed with Walpole's initials "H.W. 1737" in lower left of image.
After Watteau.
Verso frame, label: The Moyer Gallery, Paul W. Cooley.
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A pleasing drawing, in body colour, from a subject of Watteau's, 1737, by Horace Walpole.
Provenance: Horace Walpole; 1842, May 19, Strawberry Hill Sale, Day 22, lt 61 bt Reverend Cholmondeley, £4.14.6; Gen. Sir Henry Jackson; 1968, April, Gen. Sir Henry Jackson donated to W.S. Lewis; The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 18.5 x 16.0 cm, framed to 28.6 x 26.0 cm
Language: English

Genre: Genre drawings
Watercolors British 18th century
Drawing
Material: watercolor ; and image 7.25 x 6.25 in. framed to 11.25 x 10. 25 in.
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721
Subject (Topic): Influence
Couples
Conversation
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721 > Influence
Couples
Conversation
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Horace Walpole, A Conversation. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.