View in the cottage-garden at Strawberry Hill [art original]

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Title: View in the cottage-garden at Strawberry Hill [art original]
Alternative Title: View in the flower garden
Creator: Dobbyns
Published / Created: [1786]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: View of the cottage garden at Strawberry Hill, with the circular pool in the center, bench on the left and wall with an opening with a view of the larger grounds in the distance. A man and woman stroll toward the right, he gesturing with his cane, their reflection in the pool. On the left, a gardener carrying two buckets, bathed in sunlight, walks toward the left
Description: Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand. Also titled by Walpole on former mounting page in volume: View in the flower garden.
Formerly mounted on page 184 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 30.1 x 44 cm, mounted to 38.3 x 52.3 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Views
Watercolors English 18th century
Material: watercolor with pen and ink, with wash-line mount ; and laid paper sheet 11.75 x 17 5/16 in., mounted to 15 x 20 9/16 in.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Estates
Gardens
Subjects: Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Estates
Gardens
English > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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Citation: Dobbyns, View in the Cottage-Garden at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.