Oak box, with key [realia].

Description

Title: Oak box, with key [realia].
Alternative Title: Jacobean oak box
Box with lid
Published / Created: [18th century]
Publication Place: England
Description: An 18th-century oak document box with the lid stamped on the interior: VIRTUOSI PROVIDENT; underside of lid painted: Bought at Sale of the great/VIRTUOSO/Horace Walpole/Earl of Orford. Metal handles now missing. Formerly stored in the Round Tower at Strawberry Hill. With a key.
Title devised by curator.
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A stout wainscot box, lock and key, and a deal ditto [The deal bookcase ...].
Also available as a digital reproduction.
Provenance: Horace Walpole; possibly 1842, Strawberry Hill Sale, day 19, lot 6 bt. Hor. Rodd £0.10.0. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from H. M. Fletcher, February 1964.
Extent: 1 item : height 24.8 cm x width 63.5 cm x depth 53.3 cm
Language: English

Genre: Furniture
Material: oak ; and oak, iron hinges and handles
Resource Type: three-dimensional form
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Boxes (containers)
Document containers
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Boxes (containers)
Document containers
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Horace Walpole's Wainscot Oak Box, with Key. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.