Entrance of the villa at Strawberry Hill [art original]

Description

Title: Entrance of the villa at Strawberry Hill [art original]
Creator: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
Published / Created: [1781]
Publication Place: England
Description: Inscription on verso, in ink: "Entrance of the villa at Strawberry Hill. E.E. 1781."
Signed and dated lower right corner of image: "E.E. 1781".
Numbered in pencil on verso: "No. J".
Note in pencil in unknown hand: "The print of this in the Description, 1784 has slight differences: pot with shrub missing, includes more at right, + top. This is surely Edward's original watercolor for the famous print however."
Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection.
Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London.
Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Provenance: This drawing is possibly one of a collection dispersed at the Strawberry Hill Sale, 1842, day viii, lot 154. Chewton Collection of Lord Waldegrave, to W.S. Lewis, 1948.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 15.8 x 12 cm, on sheet 19.9 x 16 cm, mount 21.1 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Dwellings
Doors & doorways
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Dwellings > England
Doors & doorways > England
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Edward Edwards, Entrance of the Villa at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library,Yale University.