[Castle of Otranto] [art original]

Description

Title: [Castle of Otranto] [art original]
Alternative Title: Castello di Otranto
Creator: Joinol (Artist)
Published / Created: [not after 1795]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawn frontispiece to Horace Walpole's novel The castle of Otranto, with the Gothic castle featured prominently at center, rising above a tall fortification wall. In the foreground are three mounted knights in full armor and two additional knights on foot leading them. On the far left outside the walls is a church; rolling hills and trees are seen in the distance
Description: Title devised by curator; alternative title from the print that was engraved after this drawing.
Signed by the artist in ink in lower right corner.
Date of production based on publication date of the book issued with a frontispiece engraved after this drawing.
Original drawing for the frontispiece, engraved by Thomas Medland and entitled Castello di Otranto, that was issued with the 1795 edition in Italian of The castle of Otranto.
Inlaid opposite frontispiece in a copy of: Walpole, H. Il castello di Otranto. Londra : Presso, Molini, Polidor, Molini, ed I. Edwards, 1795.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from S. Baker, Paris, November 1937.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 10.3 x 18 cm, inlaid to 12.4 x 22 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 24 17 795 Copy 2
Collection Title: Opposite frontispiece. Castello di Otranto.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Londra : Presso, Molini, Polidor, Molini, ed I. Edwards, 1795.

Genre: Illustrations
Frontispieces
Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and ink with gray and sepia wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic): Castles & palaces
Knights
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Illustrations
Castles & palaces
Knights
British > 18th century

Access: Public
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Citation: Joinol, Castle of Otranto. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.