[A very ancient chair of oak, front view] [art original].

Description

Title: [A very ancient chair of oak, front view] [art original].
Creator: Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1790]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: Watercolor drawing of the front of the 16th-century oak chair kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill. The Latin text carved into the arms and back of the chair is reproduced below image, in ink using open lettering
Description: Title devised by curator.
Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card.
Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen.
Mounted on page 123 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 44.5 x 30 cm
Language: Latin

Genre: Ink drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: pen and ink and watercolor with wash-line border ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Chairs
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Chairs
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: John Carter, A Very Ancient Chair of Oak, Front View. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.