[Chair with cushioned seat] [art original].

Description

Title: [Chair with cushioned seat] [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1810]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of a chair, possibly the "chair covered with purple cloth" that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein at Strawberry Hill. The purple cushion, with two tassels hanging from the front, sits in a simple wood frame; the arms and back of the chair are upholstered in the same purple fabric secured at the edges with furniture nails
Description: Title from local catalog card.
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 46a 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 13.3 x 12 cm, inlaid to 29.5 x 23 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title: Page 46a. 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: Watercolors British 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Chairs
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
Chairs
British > 19th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Chair with Cushioned Seat. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.