View of the offices at Strawberry-Hill [art original]

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Title: View of the offices at Strawberry-Hill [art original]
Alternative Title: New offices at Strawberry-Hill, designed by James Essex of Cambridge, & built in 1790
Creator: Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
Published / Created: [1791]
Publication Place: Twickenham?
Abstract: View of the offices at Horace Walpole's villa Strawberry Hill, with a view of the grounds and gardens. A well-dressed young gentleman stands with one gardener with a rake in his hand while another gardener behind them bends over a wheelbarrow
Description: Joseph Charles Barrow (fl. 1789-1802), English artist.
Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note on verso, in ink in Horace Walpole's hand.
Alternative title from note in Thomas Kirgate's hand on former mounting page in volume: The new offices at Strawberry-Hill, designed by James Essex of Cambridge, & built in 1790. Drawn by J.C. Barrow, 1791.
Formerly mounted on page 204 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 32 x 50.2 cm, matted to 56 x 71 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
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Watercolors English 18th century
Material: watercolor ;, Sheet 12 2/3 x 19.75 in., and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Essex, James, 1722-1784.
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Estates
Subjects: Essex, James, 1722-1784
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Estates
English > 18th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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Citation: Joseph Charles Barrow, View of the Offices at Strawberry-Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.