View of the chapel in the garden at Strawberry Hill [graphic]

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Title: View of the chapel in the garden at Strawberry Hill [graphic]
Creator: Godfrey, Richard Bernard, approximately 1728- printmaker
Contributor: Pars, William, 1742-1782, artist.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Published / Created: [approximately 1784]
Publication Place: Strawberry-Hill
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Abstract: A view of the chapel at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, as seen across the circular garden leading to the entrance, flanked by pillars with potted trees on top
Description: Title etched below image.
First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner.
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.
Mounted on page 173 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 with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 29 x 19.9 cm.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 28.6 x 20 cm
Language: English

Genre: 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
Estates
Chapels
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Estates
Chapels
England > London > 1784
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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