The little Gothic castle at Strawberry-Hill, where the story was written [art original].

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Title: The little Gothic castle at Strawberry-Hill, where the story was written [art original].
Creator: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: View of Horace Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill, the white house seen at a distance through a break in the trees. A green lawn extends towards the viewer in the foreground; a blue sky is visible above
Description: Title from note in pencil at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to Edward Edwards from local catalog card.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
Drawn in the center of a proof state of the engraved frontispiece to: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Bound in opposite title page in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Provenance: Formerly owned by Edward Astle [Astley?], F.T. [Turner?], and W. Henry Hyett, with their armorial bookplates in the volume. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Bernard Quaritch, July 1948.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 6.9 x 4 cm, on sheet 24.5 x 16 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 24 17 791P Copy 9
Collection Title: Opposite title page. Castle of Otranto.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].

Genre: Pictorial works
Frontispieces
Ink drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: pen and ink and watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Dwellings
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Dwellings
British > 18th century
Astle, Edward > Ownership
Hyett, William Henry 1795-1877 > Ownership
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes

Access: Public
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Citation: Edward Edwards, The Little Gothic Castle at Strawberry-Hill, Where the Story Was Written. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.