Staircase at Strawberry Hill [art original]

Description

Title: Staircase at Strawberry Hill [art original]
Creator: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
Published / Created: [1781]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: Drawing of the stairway at Strawberry Hill; on display in an alcove on the left is the armor of Francis I.
Description: Title written on mount below image.
Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount.
Image later engraved by James Newton for: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, 1784, opposite page 30.
Mounted on page 70 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 : sheet 17.6 x 14 cm, mounted to 21.9 x 18 cm
Language: English

Genre: Ink drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: pen and ink and watercolor, with wash-line mount ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Stairways
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Stairways
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Edward Edwards, Staircase at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.