[Chimney in the Great Parlour] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Chimney in the Great Parlour] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Chimney piece in the Refectory
Creator: Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
Contributor: Bentley, R. 1708-1782, designer.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Published / Created: [approximately 1784]
Publication Place: Strawberry-Hill?
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Kirgate?
Description: Title from lettered state; alternative title written in pencil below image, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Printmaker from statement of responsibility on lettered state: T. Morris sc.
Proof state, before title and statement of responsibility added to plate.
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 on right and left sides.
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: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 22.6 x 20 cm
Edition: [Proof before letters].
Language: English

Genre: Proofs before letters
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Chimneypieces
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Chimneypieces
England > London > 1784
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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