Gallery at Strawberry Hill [art original]

Description

Title: Gallery at Strawberry Hill [art original]
Creator: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
Published / Created: [1781]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: Drawing of the view looking down the Gallery at Strawberry Hill. Paintings hang on the walls and busts and urns sit on tables and pedestals throughout the room. The wall on the left houses a row of windows. The wall on the right, punctuated wtih arched alcoves and a fireplace, is lined with four red settees. A long rug covers the floor. An ornate ceiling can be seen above
Description: Title written on mount below image.
Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount.
Mounted on page 105 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 13.5 x 17.8 cm, mounted to 18 x 22.1 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
Interiors
Galleries (Display spaces).
Subjects: Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Interiors
Galleries (Display spaces).
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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