Bridge over Cross-Deep in the approach to Strawberry-Hill [art original].

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Title: Bridge over Cross-Deep in the approach to Strawberry-Hill [art original].
Creator: Essex, James, 1722-1784, artist
Published / Created: [1778]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: Wash drawing depicting one face of a bridge spanning a stream, with a depiction of the bridge's footprint drawn below. A scale bar is present at the bottom
Description: Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand.
Attribution to James Essex from annotation in Horace Walpole's hand on verso: Design for the face of a bridge over the rivulet at Twickenham which runs by Mr. Walpole's flower-garden and crosses the road between that and Mr. Briscoe's garden. Drawn by Mr. Essex.
Date of production from local catalog card.
Annotated in a later hand on verso: N. the back woud. run[?] to the angle of Mr. Briscoe's pole & the front woud. look sideways towards Mr. Walpole's garden, so as to be seen from the window of the Great Bedchamber.
Mounted on page 3 (formerly B) of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Provenance: Strawberry Hill Sale, viii, 33 (London, 1123) to William Knight; Sotheby's 30 July 1919 (Col. Fellows Sale), lot 159, to Sabin; Sabin, August 1927, to W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 18.1 x 21.7 cm, on sheet 21.8 x 28.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: gray wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Bridges
Subjects: Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Bridges
British > 18th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: James Essex, Bridge Over Cross-Deep in the Approach to Strawberry-Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.