View of Strawberry Hill [art original]

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Title: View of Strawberry Hill [art original]
Creator: Dobbyns, artist
Published / Created: [1786]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: View of Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's estate in Twickenham. The house is seen in the distance, partially obscured by the surrounding trees. Three horses walk towards a man on the lawn in the foreground; four cows rest nearby in the shadows beneath a row of trees. Clouds fill the sky above
Description: Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Formerly mounted on page 16 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Provenance: Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Sabin, August 1927.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 30.3 x 44.2 cm, mounted to 38.7 x 52.7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Views
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor with pen and ink, with wash-line mount ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Dwellings
Estates
Subjects: Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Dwellings
Estates
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Dobbyns, View of Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.