View from the hall at Strawberry Hill [art original]

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Title: View from the hall at Strawberry Hill [art original]
Creator: Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
Published / Created: [1788]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: Drawing showing part of the hall and staircase at Strawberry Hill. The bottom of the staircase is visible at right; an open door at center leads to the Little Cloyster and provides a view of the china vase in which Walpole's cat drowned. Three stained-glass windows are present; the walls are covered in Gothic ornamentation
Description: John Carter (1748-1817), British draughtsman and antiquary.
Title, statement of responsibility, and date on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Formerly mounted on page 24 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 : image 20.4 x 27.7 cm, on sheet 23.5 x 33.7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Ink drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: pen and ink and watercolor, with wash-line border ; and laid paper Image 8 x 10 7/8 in., on sheet 9.25 x 13.25 in.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Interiors
Vases
Stained glass
Stairways
Subjects: Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Interiors
Vases
Stained glass
Stairways
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: John Carter, View from the Hall at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.