[The Library at Strawberry Hill] [art original].
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Description
- Title
- [The Library at Strawberry Hill] [art original].
- Creator
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1790]
- Publication Place
- Twickenham
- Abstract
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A drawing of the library at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham. Shelves with Gothic arches line three walls and are filled with books; on the back wall is a large arched window and two small rose windows filled with painted glass. On the far left is the chimney-piece imitated from the tomb of John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall in Westminster Abbey, over which the painting of The Marriage of Henry VI hangs. In front of the fireplace is a desk on which Mrs. Damer's terra-cotta eagle sits in its glass case. Half of the ceiling painted by Clermont from Walpole's designs is visible at top; oval and rectangular paintings line the walls above the bookshelves
- Description
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Title devised by curator.
Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card.
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 102 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 : image 15.9 x 22.1 cm, on sheet 22.7 x 28.7 cm
- Language
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No linguistic content
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Pictorial works
Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century - Material
- pen and ink, gray wash and watercolor, with wash-line border ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
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England
Twickenham. - Subject (Name)
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Walpole, Horace 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - Subject (Topic)
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Homes and haunts
Dwellings
Libraries (Rooms & spaces)
Interiors - Subjects
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Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Dwellings > England > Twickenham
Libraries (Rooms & spaces)
Interiors
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- John Carter, The Library at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13483033
- Object ID (OID)
- 16729704
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