Abraham Cowley from a picture by Sr. P. Lely at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]

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Title: Abraham Cowley from a picture by Sr. P. Lely at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]
Creator: Sherlock, William P., 1775- printmaker
Contributor: Lely, Peter, 1618-1680, artist.
Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809, artist, publisher.
Published / Created: [3 December 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Dec. 3, 1800, by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall
Description: Title etched below image.
Mounted on page 67 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.
1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper, à la poupée ; sheet 14 x 14.5 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text and some loss of image at top and bottom edges.
With Richard Bull's manuscript title "Cowley" written in ink below image, on mounting page.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. 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.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.7 x 20 cm, on sheet 28.3 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Reproductions
Stipple engravings England London 1800
A la poupée prints England London 1800
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1800
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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