'Twas on this lofty vase's side ...

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Title: 'Twas on this lofty vase's side ...
Creator: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Published / Created: 1797?]
Publisher: Strawberry Hill
Description: Thomas Kirgate's version, probably 1797--the lower part of the half-sheet only.
Mounted on page 30 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
Pasted below a colored drawing of the vase in the Little Cloister; with Richard Bull's annotation in ink.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent: 1 l. 4.7 x 15 cm., mounted and bound to 56 cm.
Language: English

Subjects: Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ms. notes
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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