The Cabinet [graphic]

Description

Title: The Cabinet [graphic]
Creator: Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1784]
Publication Place: Strawberry-Hill
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Abstract: View of the Cabinet, filled with the paintings, furniture, and objects in Horace Walpole's collections at Strawberry Hill
Description: Title etched below image.
First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner.
Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 158 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 ; plate mark 26 x 21 cm, on sheet 28.2 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 21.3 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Alcoves
Rooms & spaces
Interiors
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Alcoves
Rooms & spaces
Interiors
England > London > 1784
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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