Richard Bull Esqr. of North-Court, Isle of Wight [art original].

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Description

Title
Richard Bull Esqr. of North-Court, Isle of Wight [art original].
Alternative Title
Richard Bull Esqr. of Northcourt, Isle of Wight
Bookplate: Coat of arms of Richard Bull
Published / Created
[approximately 1790]
Publication Place
England
Abstract

Drawn bookplate of Richard Bull, with his arms above and his name and residence written within a banner below. The heads of bulls, colored red, feature prominently on the crest and shield. The banner for the motto, outlined in red, is left blank

Description
Title written in ink within banner at bottom of image; alternative title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist not identifed.
Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this bookplate appears. See Hazen.
Mounted inside front cover 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 23.7 x 15 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Armorial bookplates
Watercolors British 18th century
Material
pen and ink, watercolor and gold paint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806.
Subject (Topic)
Bulls
Coats of arms
Subjects
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806
Bulls
Coats of arms
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Access
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Rights
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Citation
Richard Bull Esqr. of North-Court, Isle of Wight. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
13399923
Object ID (OID)
16732885

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