The shrine and part of the inside of the Chapel taken on the spot / [art original]
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Description
- Title
- The shrine and part of the inside of the Chapel taken on the spot / [art original]
- Creator
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created
- [1789]
- Publication Place
- Twickenham
- Abstract
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Drawing of the interior of the Chapel at Strawberry Hill, with the ornate shrine brought from Rome in 1768 prominent at center. On the wall to the left of the shrine hangs the panel showing Humphrey Duke of Gloucester praying, and on the wall to the right hangs the panel showing an old man in a stable; these panels originally came from the abbey of St. Edmundsbury. In the shadows beneath the shrine, beyond its twisted columns, sits the cross inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Gothic tracery decorates the arched ceiling and runs down the walls in columns; two short steps leading up to the shrine are visible in the foreground
- Description
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Title written in ink below image.
Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner.
Mounted on page 230 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 32.9 x 23.1 cm, on sheet 39.7 x 30 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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Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century - Material
- pen and ink, gray wash and watercolor, with wash-line border ; 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
Shrines
Crosses - Subjects
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Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Shrines
Crosses
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, The Shrine and Part of the Inside of the Chapel. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13612603
- Object ID (OID)
- 16733121
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