The disaster

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Description

Title
The disaster
Creator
Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809
Contributor
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Published / Created
[1797]
Publication Place
Twickenham
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry Hill
Description
Caption title.
First line: The morning fair, the sky serene ... .
Printed in blue.
Date from Hazen.
LWL Quarto 33 30 Copy 6: Strawberry Hill Press. Proof sheets; on rough gray paper and marked "First proof" by Kirgate; three corrections.
LWL Quarto 33 30 Copy 6: No. [1] after p. 18 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated 1784 Description labelled: Walpole's villa.
LWL Quarto 33 30 Copy 6: Sheet: 24.7 x 17 cm, mounted and bound to 31 cm.
LWL 335 F v.2: With Kirgate's notes, including one on authorship.
LWL 335 F v.2: No. [19] in Annesley-Holford volume: Collection of loose pieces.
LWL 335 F v.2: Sheet: 22.6 x 18 cm, bound to 24 cm.
Mounted on page 2 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Mounted with manuscript account by William Bawtree's grandson, G.F. Bawtree, of the incident on which the poem is based. Printed in blue.
Sheet trimmed to 24.2 x 18.8 cm, mounted and bound to 54 cm.
Provenance
Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933. Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Extent
1 sheet ([1] p.] ; 24 x 19 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 4

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Poems
Subject (Name)
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824.
Subjects
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
1765807
Object ID (OID)
16193352

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