Chimney in the Little Parlour [art original]
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Description
- Title
- Chimney in the Little Parlour [art original]
- Creator
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created
- [not after 1806?]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
-
Wash drawing of the chimneypiece in the Little Parlour at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham. Its design was taken from the tomb of Thomas Ruthall, Bishop of Durham, in Westminster Abbey. A saracen's head, the crest from the Walpole family arms, sits atop a blank shield at the center of the mantel
- Description
-
Title written in brown ink below image, in a contemporary hand.
Signed by the artist in ink in lower right corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above.
Date of production based on death date of Richard Bull, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears.
Mounted on page 52 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 : image 17.4 x 17 cm, on sheet 20.7 x 19 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
-
Ink drawings British 19th century
Wash drawings British 19th century - Material
- gray wash with pen and ink ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - Subject (Topic)
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Homes and haunts
Chimneypieces - Subjects
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Chimneypieces
British > 19th century
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.
- Citation
- G.P. Harding, Chimney in the Little Parlour. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13438192
- Object ID (OID)
- 16732943
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