Shop bill of F. Miller, glasier, in Swallow Street who designed and drew the sketches in p. 217, 223. [art original]

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Title: Shop bill of F. Miller, glasier, in Swallow Street who designed and drew the sketches in p. 217, 223. [art original]
Creator: Miller, F., active 1802, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1802]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawn vignette, probably from a trade card, with the name and address of the glazier F. Miller written on a rectangular stone or monument surrounded by trees, shrubs, and other greenery
Description: Title from note in pencil at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand.
Unsigned; artist attribution from local catalog card.
Date based on that of another drawing by F. Miller bound in the same volume.
Inlaid on leaf tipped in at end flyleaf 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 5.2 x 6 cm, on sheet 11.4 x 8 cm, inlaid to 24.5 x 16 cm
Language: English

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

Genre: Trade cards (advertising)
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Vignettes
Subjects: Vignettes
British > 19th century
Astle, Edward > Ownership
Hyett, William Henry 1795-1877 > Ownership
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes

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Citation: F. Miller, Shop Bill of F. Miller, Glasier, in Swallow Street. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.