[Hand in the Tribune] [Detail of the work around the hand]. [art original]

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Description

Title
[Hand in the Tribune] [Detail of the work around the hand]. [art original]
Alternative Title
In the Tribune (size of the original) ; All the work round the hand
Creator
Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
Published / Created
[ca. 1790]
Publication Place
Twickenham
Abstract

Pair of wash drawings, one above the other, showing overall and detail views of the bronze hand kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. Described by Walpole as "an Egyptian hieroglyphic hand," this sculpture is shown in the top drawing to stand upright with the wrist as its base. The thumb, index finger, and middle finger point upwards with items balancing upon their tips; the last two fingers are curled inward towards the palm. The bottom drawing shows in detail the pictures and symbols that decorate the palm and back side of the hand; these include a snake that wraps around the entirety of the hand

Description
Title devised by cataloger.
Inscription in pencil below top image: In the tribune (size of the original).
Inscription in pencil below bottom image: All the work round the hand.
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 163 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
2 drawings on 1 sheet : image 15 x 8 cm and image 6.5 x 18 cm, on sheet 33.6 x 27.8 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

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

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Rights
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Citation
John Carter, Hand in the Tribune; Detail of the Work Around the Hand. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
13533345
Object ID (OID)
16733055

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