View of Twickenham from the garden of Strawberry Hill [art original]

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Title: View of Twickenham from the garden of Strawberry Hill [art original]
Creator: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
Published / Created: [1783]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: View from the garden at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's estate in Twickenham, with the Thames visible in the middle distance at right. A man on horseback travels the road on the near side of the river; another figure stands by the obelisk at the junction of roads near the center of the image. Mr. Briscoe's house is seen beyond the obelisk; other buildings are faintly visible further down the river in the far distance. Two men, one holding a broom and the other kneeling down next to a basket, work in the field in the foreground
Description: Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount: E.E. 1783.
Formerly laid in 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 18 x 38 cm, mounted to 25.4 x 46 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
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Ink drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: pen and ink and watercolor, 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
Estates
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Estates
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Edward Edwards, View of Twickenham from the Garden of Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.