Chimney piece in Mr. Walpole's bed-chamber [art original].

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Title: Chimney piece in Mr. Walpole's bed-chamber [art original].
Creator: Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
Contributor: Chute, John, 1701-1776, designer.
Published / Created: [approximately 1790]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: Wash drawing of the chimney-piece, designed by John Chute, that was commissioned by Horace Walpole for his bedchamber at Strawberry Hill
Description: Title written in ink below image.
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 111 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 17.2 x 18 cm, on sheet 28.8 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: gray wash, pen and ink, and ink wash, with wash-line border ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Chimneypieces
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Chimneypieces
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: John Carter, Chimney Piece in Mr. Walpole's Bed-Chamber. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.