[Chair of oak from Glastonbury Abbey] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Chair of oak from Glastonbury Abbey] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Outside left arm, Da pacem Domine ...
Published / Created: [late 18th century?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Depiction of the front and back of the 16th-century oak chair kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill. In the border of the print is etched a reproduction of the Latin text that was carved into the chair
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Text within print border: Outside left arm, Da pacem Domine; outside of the right arm, Sit Laus Deo; on the inside of [the] rt. arm, Joannes Arthurus; on the inside of [the] back, Monacus Glastonie; inside left arm, salvet eum Deus.
Questionable date of publication supplied by cataloger.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 96 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 22.8 x 16.5 cm.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21.1 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England London 1770
Material: etching ; and wove paper .
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Chairs
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Chairs
England > London > 1770
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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