[Urn with two handles] [art original].

Description

Title: [Urn with two handles] [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Watercolor drawing depicting a green urn or vase with two handles that was apparently owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill. Perhaps the large, damaged glass urn that was found near London and given to Horace Walpole by Dr. Charles Lyttelton, Bishop of Carlisle
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 33 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 12.8 x 10.9 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Watercolors British 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Glassware
Urns
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Glassware
Urns
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Urn With Two Handles. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.