Triangular chair [art original].
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Description
- Title
- Triangular chair [art original].
- Creator
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created
- [not after 1810]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
-
Drawing of a triangular chair that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Star Chamber at Strawberry Hill. The chair has one leg at each corner of its triangular seat, with the leg at the rear extending upward and being topped with a curved piece that forms a simple backrest
- Description
-
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page.
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 42b 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 15 x 10 cm, inlaid to 29.5 x 23 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
- Collection Title
- Page 42b. 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]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
- Wash drawings British 19th century
- Material
- pen and gray wash ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic)
-
Art collections
Chairs - Subjects
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Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
Chairs
British > 19th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > 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
- G.P. Harding, Triangular Chair. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13771597
- Object ID (OID)
- 16822553
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