[Lantern at Strawberry Hill] [art original]

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Title: [Lantern at Strawberry Hill] [art original]
Creator: Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810, artist
Contributor: Bentley, R. 1708-1782, designer.
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Watercolor drawing depicting the Gothic lantern, designed by Richard Bentley, that hung in the well of the staircase at Strawberry Hill
Description: Title from local catalog card.
Statement of responsibility from pencil annotation, probably in Thomas Kirgate's hand, on mounting page below image.
Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date.
Mounted on page 25 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 16.6 x 13 cm, mounted to 17.4 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Lamps
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Lamps
British > 18th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Thomas Kirgate, Lantern at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.