[Thomas Kirgate, printer at Strawberry-Hill] [graphic].

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Description

Title
[Thomas Kirgate, printer at Strawberry-Hill] [graphic].
Creator
Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, printmaker, artist
Contributor
Hall, John, 1739-1797, printmaker.
Published / Created
[1784]
Publication Place
England
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

A portrait of Thomas Kirgate, half-length, looking to the right

Description
Title written in black ink below plate line, in an unidentified hand.
Statements of responsibility written in black ink below title, in an unidentified hand: Painted & etched by E. Edwards, 1784; finished by J. Hall.
Mounted on page 240 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 on laid paper ; sheet 12.5 x 8.2 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Note in ink below image on mounting sheet: Mr. Walpoe's printer.
Print was probably given to Richard Bull by Edward Edwards. See letter from Edwards to Bull that is tipped into volume beside this portrait.
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 : plate mark 12.4 x 9 cm, on sheet 20 x 14 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Etchings England 1784
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,
Subjects
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810
England > 1784
18th century
Mackinlay, Thomas > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
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
11706264
Object ID (OID)
16729804

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