[A small bronze vase, with a sacrifice to Priapus] [art original].

Description

Title: [A small bronze vase, with a sacrifice to Priapus] [art original].
Creator: Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1790]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: Wash drawing of a vase that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. Visible near the top of the vase is part of a depiction of a sacrifice to Priapus, the scene wrapping around the back of the vase
Description: 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 195 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 18.9 x 16 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Wash drawings British 18th century
Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: gray wash with pen and ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Priapus (Greek deity),
Subject (Topic): Vases
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Priapus (Greek deity)
Vases
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, A Small Bronze Vase, with a Sacrifice to Priapus. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.