[Round ossuarium with a bird on the cover] [art original].

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Title: [Round ossuarium with a bird on the cover] [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Wash drawing depicting one of the ossuaria kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill. The sides of the ossuarium are decorated with images of rams' heads and a hunting scene involving a lion running from men with bows and arrows; the cover is topped with a perched eagle
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 90 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 12.7 x 10 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
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Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
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British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Round Ossuarium With a Bird on the Cover. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.