Staircase at Strawberry Hill [graphic]

Description

Title: Staircase at Strawberry Hill [graphic]
Creator: Newton, James, 1748-approximately 1804, printmaker
Contributor: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Published / Created: [approximately 1784]
Publication Place: Strawberry-Hill
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Abstract: A view of the stairway at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, looking up towards the armory. On display in an alcove on the left is the armor of Francis I.
Description: Title etched below image.
First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.
Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 75 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: 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 print : sheet 20.1 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Alcoves
Armor
Stairways
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Alcoves
Armor
Stairways
England > London > 1784
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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