Cieli[ng] under the stairs [art original].

Description

Title: Cieli[ng] under the stairs [art original].
Alternative Title: Ceiling under the stairs
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: Twickenham and England
Abstract: Wash drawing depicting a rectangular section of ceiling at Strawberry Hill, with Gothic tracery running longitudinally in parallel rows
Description: Titled in Thomas Kirgate's hand below image on mounting page; part of the word "cieling" has been rubbed from sheet.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date.
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. Later owned by William Knight. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Sabin, August 1927.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 18.8 x 5 cm
Language: English

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

Access: Public
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Citation: Ceiling under the Stairs. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.