Strawberry Hill [art original]

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Title: Strawberry Hill [art original]
Alternative Title: Strawberry Hill, view from the northeast road
Strawberry Hill, north front
Creator: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
Published / Created: [1783]
Publication Place: Twickenham?
Abstract: View of Strawberry Hill (north front) as seen from the lane with fences on either side. A man with a scythe and a woman carrying a baby walk in the road in front of the estate, towards the viewer
Description: Edward Edwards (1738-1806), British painter.
Titled, dated, and signed on wash-line mount, bottom edge.
Formerly mounted on page 20 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 : image 30.8 x 25.9 cm, mounted to 37.2 x 32 cm, matted to 62 x 49 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
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Ink drawings British 18th century
Watercolors English 18th century
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: pen and ink and watercolor, with wash-line mount ; and laid paper Image 12 1/8 x 10 3/16 in, mounted to 14 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Twickenham.
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Houses
Estates
Subjects: Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Houses > England > Twickenham
Estates
British > 18th century
English > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Edward Edwards, Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.