East view of the cottage-garden at Strawberryhill [graphic]

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Description

Title
East view of the cottage-garden at Strawberryhill [graphic]
Alternative Title
East view of the cottage-garden at Strawberry Hill
Creator
Godfrey, Richard Bernard, approximately 1728- printmaker
Contributor
Pars, William, 1742-1782, artist.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Published / Created
[approximately 1784]
Publication Place
Strawberry-Hill
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Abstract

A view of the cottage on the grounds of Horace Walpole's villa Strawberry Hill, as seen through a grove of trees

Description
Title etched below image.
First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.
Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 224 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 : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 15.4 x 19 cm.
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 15.4 x 20 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Views
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1784
Material
etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Subject (Topic)
Homes and haunts
Estates
Outbuildings
Subjects
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Estates
Outbuildings
England > London > 1784
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12821743
Object ID (OID)
16729796

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