"A 'park wall' and 'back parlour'" [art original]
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Description
- Title
- "A 'park wall' and 'back parlour'" [art original]
- Creator
- Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
- Published / Created
- [1885]
- Publication Place
- New York?
- Abstract
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Drawing with two scenes: 'the back parlour" in an oval within a larger rectangular view of a 'park wall'. The park wall is covered in ivy and at its base, lush ferns and other plants and mushrooms, ferns and at the top a stand of trees. The oval inset in the lower right shows a man view from behind, sitting in a chair looking out a window at a city street scene and two birds at perched on the vine before a leadlight casement window
- Description
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Title written below image, from a quotation by Horace Walpole's letter to Miss Berry December 1793: "A park-wall with ivy on it and fern near it, and a back parlour in London in summer, with a dead creeper and a couple of sooty sparrows, are my strongest ideas of melancholy solitude. A pleasing melancholy is a very august personage, but not at all good company.”
Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image.
Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period.
Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 288.
Bound in as page 214 in volume 12 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884. - Provenance
- Borden Sale, American Art Gallery, 17-19 February 1913, lot 812. Rains Galleries, New York, NY, 27 November 1935 (W.D. Breaker sale), lot 688, bought in by Breaker. Purchased from William D. Breaker (through G.A. Baker) by W.S. Lewis, 1939.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : image 25.5 x 18 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 28 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 225 884S Copy 2
- Collection Title
- Volume 12, page 214. Horace Walpole and his world.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Collection Date
- London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Views
Watercolors American 19th century - Material
- watercolor ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Parlors
Garden walls
Casement windows
Depression (Mental state) - Subjects
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Parlors
Garden walls
Casement windows
Depression (Mental state)
American > 19th century
Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 > Ownership
Breaker, William D. > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- David Edward Cronin, "A Park Wall" and "Back Parlour". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13692319
- Object ID (OID)
- 16704378
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