Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham the seat of the Honourable Mr. Walpole / [graphic]

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Title: Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham the seat of the Honourable Mr. Walpole / [graphic]
Creator: Rooker, Edward, -1774, printmaker
Contributor: Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, artist.
Kearsley, George, -1790, publisher.
Published / Created: Novr. 1st, 1774.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published according to act of Parliament G. Kearsly in Fleet Street
Abstract: View from the east of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham; with two men pulling a lawn roller across the grass
Description: Title etched below image.
Mounted on page 19 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 wove paper ; sheet 16.6 x 20.9 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 163 x 206 mm, on sheet 190 x 241 mm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Second 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: Etchings England London 1774
Material: etching ; and laid 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 > 1774
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 > Ownership
Breaker, William D. > Ownership

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