The gallery [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The gallery [graphic]
- Creator
- Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
- Contributor
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Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, artist.
Sandby, Thomas, 1723-1798, artist. - Published / Created
- [approximately 1784]
- Publication Place
- Strawberry-Hill
- Publisher
- Printed by Thomas Kirgate
- Abstract
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View of the gallery, with paintings on the wall and busts on the tables, at Horace Walpole's villa Strawberry Hill
- 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.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Original drawing started by Thomas Sandby and completed by Paul Sandby and Edward Edwards. See Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009, page 306.
Mounted on page 134 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 with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 17.9 x 23.2.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides.
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 15.3 x 18.3
- 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 London 1784
- Material
- etching with engraving ; and laid 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
Interiors
Galleries (Display spaces) - Subjects
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Interiors
Galleries (Display spaces)
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
- 12778019
- Object ID (OID)
- 16733025
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