Principal floor of Strawberry Hill, 1781 [graphic].

Description

Title: Principal floor of Strawberry Hill, 1781 [graphic].
Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Published / Created: [approximately 1784]
Publication Place: Strawberry-Hill
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Abstract: Plan of the principal floor of Horace Walpole's gothic house Twickenham. The rooms are labeled with their dimensions and with letters that correspond to a key, running from A to Q, that is etched on the left side of the plate. The largest rooms include the Round Room (A), the Great Bed Chamber (C), the Gallery (D), and the Library (F). A compass in the upper right corner shows the direction of north
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.
Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 15 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 on laid paper ; sheet 33.7 x 23 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 : sheet 27 x 17 cm
Language: English

Genre: Floor plans
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1784
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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