Frontispiece [graphic]
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16732888
Description
- Title
- Frontispiece [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Description of Strawberry Hill
- Creator
- Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
- Contributor
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Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Published / Created
- [ca. 1784]
- Publication Place
- Strawberry-Hill
- Publisher
- Printed by Thomas Kirgate
- Abstract
-
"A gothic arch with statues of a cleric at left and knight at right in niches beside a blank section in the centre with jester above, the structure surmounted by a portrait bust of Henry VII, portrait roundels and shields below and a sword lying in the foreground with a banner inscribed: Fari Quae Sentait."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state
- Description
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Title etched below image; abridged title of book etched at center of image: A descripiton of Strawberry Hill.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the print was made.
Frontispiece to: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
For a proof state lacking text within image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1895,1031.221.
Mounted on page 2 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
- 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 21.4 x 16 cm, on sheet 27.4 x 22 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Frontispieces
Etchings England London 1784 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), - Subject (Topic)
- Homes and haunts
- Subjects
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1784
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13399287
- Object ID (OID)
- 16732888
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