Screen of the Holbeinchamber [graphic]
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16733022
Description
- Title
- Screen of the Holbeinchamber [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Screen of the Holbein Chamber
- Creator
- Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
- Contributor
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Bentley, R. 1708-1782, designer.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Published / Created
- [approximately 1784]
- Publication Place
- Strawberry-Hill
- Publisher
- Printed by Thomas Kirgate
- Abstract
-
Depiction of the firescreen, the pierced arches of which are from the gates of the choir of Rouen with the rest designed by Richard Bentley, that was commissioned by Horace Walpole for the Holbein Chamber of Strawberry Hill
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.
Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Mounted on page 131 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 20.1 x 23 cm, on sheet 21.8 x 25 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Book illustrations
Etchings England 1784 - Material
- etching with engraving ; 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 > 1784
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > 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
- 12768231
- Object ID (OID)
- 16733022
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