[Inside the Castle of Otranto] [art original].

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Title: [Inside the Castle of Otranto] [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1853]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: An interior view of the fictional castle in Horace Walpole's Gothic novel, with the landing of a stairway seen through an arched passageway. The stairs and associated banister turn left and ascend to the landing on the next level, which is bathed in light from above. The stairs leading downward drop out of view, with the top of a large arched window visible at the next level down
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
Mounted opposite page xxxii in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Provenance: Former owners include R.S. Holford and J.O. Jardine Binnie. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from E. Mathews, February 1939.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 9 x 7 cm, mounted to 24.2 x 17 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 24 17 791P Copy 5
Collection Title: Opposite page xxxii. Castle of Otranto.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].

Genre: Illustrations
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: black and gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic): Castles & palaces
Interiors
Stairways
Windows
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Illustrations
Castles & palaces
Interiors
Stairways
Windows
British > 19th century
Holford, Robert Stayner, 1808-1892 > Ownership
Binnie, J. O. Jardine > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Inside the Castle of Otranto. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.