[Strawberry Hill, east front] [art original].

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Title: [Strawberry Hill, east front] [art original].
Published / Created: [not before 1762]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill estate as viewed from the east, with the house in the middle distance surrounded by trees. A lawn stretches towards the viewer in the foreground; a cloud-filled sky is above
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date of production based on depiction of the Round Tower of the house, which was not completed until 1762.
With printed (letterpress?) text "Strawberry-Hill 17[blank]" below image, with the digits "58" written in brown ink to complete the date.
Mounted as lower half of title page in a copy of: Whitworth, C. An account of Russia as it was in the year 1710. Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
Provenance: Formerly owned by the Earl of Lonsdale, with pencil annotation "From the Earl of Lonsdale Library" on fly-leaf of volume. Bought by W.S. Lewis from Bernard Quaritch, March 1937.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 5.2 x 10 cm, on sheet 10.8 x 11 cm, mounted to 18.6 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Views
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and gray wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Subject (Topic): Estates
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Estates
British > 18th century
Lonsdale, Earls of > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Strawberry Hill, East Front. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.