[The screen to the Prior's garden] [art original].

Description

Title: [The screen to the Prior's garden] [art original].
Creator: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
Published / Created: [1781]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: View of the north side of the house at Strawberry Hill, looking towards the screen leading into the Prior's garden. The exterior walls of the house rise above on the left; in the middle distance a man stands within the doorway to the garden, the open door behind him. The courtyard wall and door leading to the road are seen at right
Description: Title devised by curator.
Artist and date of production from curator.
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 : image 21.9 x 19 cm, on sheet 45.3 x 31 cm
Language: No linguistic content

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

Access: Public
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Citation: Edward Edwards, The Screen to the Prior's Garden. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.