The master of Otranto being in durance and not able to receive the Fairy Blandina; 'Twas on this lofty vase's side
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Description
- Title
- The master of Otranto being in durance and not able to receive the Fairy Blandina; 'Twas on this lofty vase's side
- Alternative Title
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Master of Otranto to the Fairy Blandina
'Twas on this lofty vase's side - Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, author
- Contributor
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Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England), publisher. - Published / Created
- [between 1781 and 1797?]
- Publication Place
- Twickenham, England and England London
- Publisher
- Strawberry Hill Press
- Description
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Title from first lines of text.
By Horace Walpole. See Hazen.
Thomas Kirgate's reprint of "The master of Otranto" with ’ordered’ in the fourth line slightly to the left of ’Manner’.
On the same sheet, printed below, Thomas Gray's: 'Twas on this lofty vase's side, Where China's gayest art has dy'd ... .
Hazen's titles: The Master of Otranto to the Fairy Blandina 1772 and Label for the pedestal of the China tub. 1773?
Fairy Blandina = Lady Blandford.
Not in ESTC.
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 sheet ([1] page) ; 25.1 x 19.5 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Poems
Watermarks (Paper) - Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Name)
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Blandford, Maria Catherina de Jong, approximately 1697-1779.
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771. - Subjects
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Blandford, Maria Catherina de Jong, approximately 1697-1779
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Annesley, Francis, -1812 > Ownership
Bedford, Charles, 1742?-1814 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ms. notes
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Holford, George Lindsay, Sir, 1860-1926 > Ownership
Holford, Robert Stayner, 1808-1892 > Ownership
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Waldegrave, Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, Earl, 1905- > Ownership
Waldegrave, William Frederick Waldegrave, Earl, 1851-1930 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
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- Public
- Rights
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Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 1770777
- Object ID (OID)
- 16824679