[Design from Bisham Abbey tile] [art original].

Description

Title: [Design from Bisham Abbey tile] [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist unidentifed.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 27 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 13.5 x 14 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Watercolors British 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bisham Abbey, Marlow, England (Buckinghamshire)
Subject (Topic): Tiles
Subjects: Bisham Abbey, Marlow, England (Buckinghamshire)
Tiles
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Design From Bisham Abbey Tile. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.