Iohn Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury [art original].
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16733117
Description
- Title
- Iohn Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury [art original].
- Alternative Title
- John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Creator
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1790]
- Publication Place
- Twickenham
- Abstract
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Watercolor drawing of one of four panels, formerly the doors to a shrine in the abbey of St. Edmundsbury, that were kept by Horace Walpole in the Chapel at Strawberry Hill. This panel shows John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury, whole-length, turned and looking to right, standing in bishop's robes and carrying a mitre in his right hand and an open book in his left. He stands in front of a landscape with trees and path leading into distance; a house is visible in the backround on the right
- Description
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Title written in ink below image.
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 226 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 : image 28.2 x 12 cm, on sheet 38.7 x 22 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Portraits
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)
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Kemp, John, approximately 1380-1454,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - Subject (Topic)
- Bishops
- Subjects
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Kemp, John, approximately 1380-1454
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Bishops
British > 18th century
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.
- Citation
- John Carter, Iohn Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13604597
- Object ID (OID)
- 16733117
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