[Death of Abel (plate)] [realia].
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16721015
Description
- Title
- [Death of Abel (plate)] [realia].
- Alternative Title
- Plate painted with the sacrifices of Cain and Abel
- Creator
- Grue, Carlo Antonio, 1655-1723, artist
- Published / Created
- [between 1690 and 1720?]
- Publication Place
- Castelli, Italy
- Description
-
Title devised by curator.
A tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) plate, painted and gilt, with a scene showing the death of Abel. Formerly located in the China-Room at Strawberry Hill. The scene perhaps in reverse after an engraving by Gerard de Laitesse.
Text from 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill: 17. possibly [China Room]. Four dessert plates of fayence, with figures and boys round the borders; by Pietro da Cortona: very fine. A fifth ditto with goats, a present from Lady Diana Beauclerc.
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A pair of very rare plates, on one is represented the Building of Babel, with many figures, on the other the Death of Abel.
Label on verso: Strawberry Hill; later dealer label “2575 Pair 2 gui”.
Castelli maiolica from the workshop of Carlantonio Grue. Formerly inventoried at Lewis Walpole Library as Delft.
Also available as a digital reproduction. - Provenance
- Possibly sold at the 1842, Strawberry Hill Sale, day 12, lot 61 bt W. M. Smith, £4.14.6 or day 12 lot 73 by Pratt, New Bond-street, £5.15.6. Gift of Sir Osbert Sitwell, July 1949, to W.S. Lewis.
- Extent
- 1 item ; diameter 19 cm
- Language
-
No linguistic content
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- sh-000304 On display in the Long Hall
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Plates (general, dishes)
Decorative object - Material
- earthenware (maiolica) tin-glaze, gilt.
- Resource Type
- three-dimensional form
- Subject (Name)
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic)
- Art collections
- Subjects
-
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > 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.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 14033994
- Object ID (OID)
- 16721015