[Earthen bottle with 'Sack 1647' painted on it] [art original].

Description

Title: [Earthen bottle with 'Sack 1647' painted on it] [art original].
Published / Created: [approximately 1790]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of a jug-like bottle with a handle that was owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill. This type of bottle was sold by apothecaries, and this particular example was from the collection of Mrs. Kennon, the virtuosa midwife
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 45 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.
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 3.6 x 4 cm
Language: English

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

Access: Public
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Citation: Earthen Bottle with 'Sack 1647' Painted on It. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.