[Scottish mull] [art original].

Description

Title: [Scottish mull] [art original].
Published / Created: [approximately 1791]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A drawing of a snuff box made from a Scottish ram's horn
Description: Title devised by currator.
Inscription in pencil In Thomas Kirgate's hand, upper right corner, above image: "Inscription: This trifle given by Sir James Calquhoun of Luss, Bart. to the Honble. Horace Walpole as a mark of respect."
Date based on letter from Horace Walpole to Sir James Calquhuon, thanking him for his gift of the "beautiful goat's horn ... with the inscription with which you have been pleased to overhonour me." See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 42, p. 322-3.
Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection.
Unidentified artist.
Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Provenance: This drawing is possibly one of a collection dispersed at the Strawberry Hill Sale, 1842, viii, 154. Chewton Collection of Lord Waldegrave, to W.S. Lewis, 1948.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 195 x 254 mm, mount 243 x 359 mm
Language: English

Genre: Snuff boxes
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: gray wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: British > 18th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Scottish Mull. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.