[Cup of Mr. Place's china] [art original].

Description

Title: [Cup of Mr. Place's china] [art original].
Contributor: Place, Francis, 1647-1728, designer.
Published / Created: [approximately 1790]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of a stoneware tankard made by Francis Place and owned by Horace Walpole
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist not identified.
Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen.
Mounted on page 43 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
With Richard Bull's note in ink, below image on mounting page: This cup is of Mr. Place's china, and of the same size as the original.
With wash-line mount. For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, August 1937.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 8.2 x 7 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Wash drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: gray wash and watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Pottery
Drinking vessels
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Pottery
Drinking vessels
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ms. notes
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Cup of Mr. Place's China. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.