[Strawberry-Hill] [graphic]

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Title: [Strawberry-Hill] [graphic]
Alternative Title: East front of Strawberry Hill, from the river
Creator: Wollaston, Charlton, 1733-1764, printmaker
Published / Created: 1754.
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Landscape; view of Strawberry Hill, a neo-gothic house in parkland, seen from a pool in the foreground, with a water-wheel on the left, a horseman on the far bank, sailing-boat on the right and cattle grazing in the field before the house."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from note in brown ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Alternative title from Gascoigne.
Printmaker's monogrammatic initials etched below image in lower left; date etched below image in lower right.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 8 (formerly G) 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.
The letters "ollaston" added in brown ink by Horace Walpole after the monogrammatic initials etched in lower left corner, completing the printmaker's last name "Wollaston."
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 11.4 x 16 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Collection Title: First leaf following title page. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]

Genre: Pictorial works
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Etchings England London 1754
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching with drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Estates
Dwellings
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Estates
Dwellings
England > London > 1754
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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