A Gothic table [art original]

Description

Title: A Gothic table [art original]
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Bentley, R. 1708-1782, designer.
Published / Created: [1800]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of the table of Sicilian jasper on a black frame, designed by Richard Bentley, in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill
Description: Title written in ink below image, on mounting page.
Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above.
Inlaid on page 4b 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 13.5 x 21 cm, inlaid to 29.5 x 23 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title: Page 4b. 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
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: ink and wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Tables
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Tables
British > 19th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, A Gothic Table. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.