The disaster

Description

Title: The disaster
Creator: Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809, author
Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England), publisher.
Published / Created: [1797]
Publication Place: Twickenham, England and England London
Publisher: Strawberry Hill Press
Description: Caption title.
First line: The morning fair, the sky serene ... .
Printed in blue.
Date from Hazen.
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] page) ; 24 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Poetry
Poems
Resource Type: text
Subject (Name): Bawtree, William, 1744-1824
Subjects: Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Poetry
Annesley, Francis, -1812 > Ownership
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Bedford, Charles, 1742?-1814 > Ownership
Holford, George Lindsay, Sir, 1860-1926 > Ownership
Holford, Robert Stayner, 1808-1892 > Ownership
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Waldegrave, Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, Earl, 1905- > Ownership
Waldegrave, William Frederick Waldegrave, Earl, 1851-1930 > Ownership
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810

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