[Settee] [realia].

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Description

Title
[Settee] [realia].
Creator
Devenish, Thomas Courtenay, active 1770-1796
Contributor
Cobb, John approximately 1715-1778.
Vile, William, 1714 or 1715-1767.
Published / Created
[not after 1762]
Publication Place
England
Abstract

Two English settees originally with crimson Norwich damask, now with reproduction worsted damask, formerly in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill. Probably made by Thomas Devenish working as a subcontractor to Vile & Cobb; commissioned by H. Walpole from Vile and Cobb as part of a matching set of four settees, four benches, and four armchairs. In his Accounts, Walpole lists a payment [1765]: "March 20 Pd Vile's bill for chairs, tables, stools, &c for the gallery & odd articles £146.14.0."

Description
Title devised by curator.
Inscriptions: signed on the stretcher 'by Thos. Courtenay Devenish' and incised 'IF'; and on the frame 'Restuffed by H. Adams Nov. 1833.'
Also attributed to English furniture maker William Vile and John Cobb, English cabinet-maker and upholsterer.
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A pair of window couches, of similar fashion, covered en suite.
Formerly identified as: Window seats, 2, from Quenby Hall, Leics. (Lot no. on back of one CK0012-161 & 162).
Provenance
Sold 1842, Strawberry Hill Sale, day 24, possibly lot 7 bought by Oldmixon, Esq, £4.10.0 or lot 8 bought by Webb, Old Bond Street, £4.4.0; (lots 7 & 8 were corresponding pairs of "window couches"). Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Asprey & Co., March 1975 for £4100.
Extent
2 items : 69.6 x 150.5 x 54 cm
Language
No linguistic content

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
sh-000028 On view in Reading Room

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Furniture
Settees (multiple-seating furniture)
Material
mixed materials ; and beech black paint and gilt, reproduction worsted damask, silk and worsted tape and yarn.
Resource Type
three-dimensional form
Subject (Name)
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
14034234
Object ID (OID)
16721026

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