Entrance of Strawberry Hill [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Entrance of Strawberry Hill [graphic]
- Creator
- Newton, James, 1748-approximately 1804, printmaker
- Contributor
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Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, 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 entrance to Horace Walpole's house Strawberry Hill and the 1759 wing shows a servant emerging from the studded front door on his way to the kitchen via the Little Cloister. There was no internal communication between the hall and kitchen on the ground floor
- Description
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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 print was made.
Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Mounted on page 26 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 ; plate mark 25.7 x 20.3 cm, on sheet 28.3 x 23.2 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 20.8 x 15 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
- Etchings England 1784
- Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
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England
Twickenham. - Subject (Name)
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - Subject (Topic)
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Homes and haunts
Dwellings
Doors & doorways - Subjects
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Dwellings > England > Twickenham
Doors & doorways
England > 1784
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
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
- 12678424
- Object ID (OID)
- 16732917
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