Strawberry Hill seat of the Honorable Horace Walpole / [graphic]

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Title: Strawberry Hill seat of the Honorable Horace Walpole / [graphic]
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, printmaker
Contributor: Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist.
Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 April 1790]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Apr. 1, 1790, by Wm. Birch, Hampstead Heath
Abstract: "View of the Gothic mansion with pinnacles on the battlemented roof and pointed arched windows, seen between trees across parkland, with a cow sitting under trees to right and two figures sitting in the left foreground, one lying on his front and looking up at the other."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate from: Birch, W.R. Delices de la Grande Bretagne. [London] : Engraved and published by William Birch, 1791.
Mounted on page 13 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.
1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 15.3 x 18 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 151 x 178 mm, on sheet 211 x 238 mm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1790
Engravings England London 1790
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Twickenham.
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Dwellings
Estates
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Dwellings > England > Twickenham
Estates > England > Twickenham
England > London > 1790
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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