[The lantern in the Red Hall] [art original].

Description

Title: [The lantern in the Red Hall] [art original].
Alternative Title: Lanthron in the Red Hall
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Bentley, R. 1708-1782, designer.
Published / Created: [not after 1810]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Unfinished drawing of the Gothic lantern, designed by Richard Bentley, that hung in the Entrance of Strawberry Hill
Description: Title from local catalog card; the title written in ink on mounting page has "lanthorn" misspelled as "lanthron".
Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card.
Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found.
Inlaid on page 2d in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Provenance: Probably from Thomas Kirgate's library, with his (as well as Horace Walpole's) manuscript notes in the volume. Sold at Sotheby's, 12 June 1933 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 365, to Maggs. Sold by Maggs to W.S. Lewis, August 1933.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 14.4 x 8 cm, inlaid to 29.5 x 23 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title: Page 2d. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]

Genre: Ink drawings British 19th century
Watercolors British 19th century
Material: pen and ink, ink wash, and watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Lamps
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
Lamps
British > 19th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, The Lantern in the Red Hall. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.