[Black and yellow arms with lions and fleurs-de-lis] [art original].

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Title: [Black and yellow arms with lions and fleurs-de-lis] [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Unsigned; artist unidentifed.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Possibly a depiction of one of the tiles with arms, from the catherdral at Gloucester, that was in the floor of the China Room at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill house.
Mounted on page 25 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.
Provenance: Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver. Purchased from Spencer, June 1951, £100; ex dono Annie Burr Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 14.4 x 15 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Watercolors British 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Coats of arms
Tiles
Subjects: Coats of arms
Tiles
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Black and Yellow Arms with Lions and Fleurs-de-lis. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.