[Sketch for Cloister and Gallery] [art original]

Description

Title: [Sketch for Cloister and Gallery] [art original]
Creator: Chute, John, 1701-1776, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1776]
Publication Place: Twickenham?
Abstract: Drawing of the exterior of the Great Cloyster (ground floor) and Gallery (first floor) that form part of the southern facade of Strawberry Hill. Two rows of arched windows are depicted, and a doorway is present in the lower right. At top is seen a castellated roofline with evenly-spaced spires. Measurements are written in various places to provide scale
Description: Title devised by curator.
Statement of responsibility written below image on mounting page, in Thomas Kirgate's hand.
Date of production based on John Chute's death date.
Mounted on page 103 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 x 36 cm, on sheet 25 x 41 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Architectural drawings
Pencil works
Ink drawings
Material: pen and brown ink and pencil ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Elevations
Dwellings
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Elevations
Dwellings
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: John Chute, Sketch for Cloister and Gallery. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.