[Boy & lute] [graphic].

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Description

Title
[Boy & lute] [graphic].
Alternative Title
Boy and lute
Boy & flute
Creator
Picot, Victor Marie, 1744-1805, printmaker
Contributor
Luti, Benedetto, 1666-1724, artist.
Boydell, John, 1720-1804, publisher.
Published / Created
[1780]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
John Boydell
Description
Title from lettered state.
Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: Cavr. Luti pinxit ; Picot sculpsit.
Proof before letters; for a lettered state with the imprint "Published Mar. 25th, 1780, by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London," see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4.
Engraved after a painting formerly in the collection of Robert Walpole at Houghton.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 101 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
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 : sheet 14.2 x 11 cm
Edition
[Proof before letters].
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Reproductions
Proofs before letters
Engravings England London 1780
Etchings England London 1780
Material
etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Houghton Hall (England)
Subject (Topic)
Art collections
Boys
Flutes
Subjects
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Art collections
Houghton Hall (England) > Art collections
Boys
Flutes
England > London > 1780
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13482733
Object ID (OID)
16729701

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