[Strawberry Hill] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Strawberry Hill] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Strawberry Hill, north front
Contributor: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist.
Published / Created: [1783]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: View of Strawberry Hill (north front) as seen from the lane with fences on either side. A man with a scythe and a woman carrying a baby walk in the road in front of the estate, towards the viewer
Description: Title written by the artist in block letters on mount below image.
Artist's initials and date etched in lower left corner of image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly laid in 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.
With wash-line mount (40.6 x 36 cm); signed with initials and dated by the artist ("E.E. 1783") on mount, to the right of manuscript title.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 30.2 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
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Etchings England London 1783
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Twickenham.
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Houses
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Houses > England > Twickenham
England > London > 1783
18th century
Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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