Thomas Kirgate, printer at Strawberry-Hill with a view of the printing house / [graphic]

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Title: Thomas Kirgate, printer at Strawberry-Hill with a view of the printing house / [graphic]
Creator: Birrell, A., active 1770-1820, printmaker
Contributor: Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809, artist.
Published / Created: published in 1798.
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A half-length portrait of Thomas Kirgate facing right, with a view of the Strawberry Hill printing house in the distance on the right
Description: Title etched below image.
Mounted on page 237 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 : stipple engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 16.4 x 13.2 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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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 : plate mark 16.3 x 14 cm, on sheet 17.2 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England London 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Printers
Subjects: Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Printers
England > London > 1798
Eyton, Joseph Walter King, 1820?-1872 > Ownership
Gibson Craig, James Thomson, 1799-1886 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Baker, George, 1747-1811 > Ownership
Spencer-Churchill, Edward George, 1876-1964 > Ownership

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