[Two designs for a cabinet at Strawberry Hill] [art original]

Description

Title: [Two designs for a cabinet at Strawberry Hill] [art original]
Creator: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
Published / Created: [1783]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Two drawings, matted side-by-side, of female figures wearing classical dress (Doric chitons). The figure on the left faces right and holds up one side of a scale (?) with her left hand; the figure on the right, breasts exposed and right arm extended into the air, faces left
Description: Title devised by curator.
Signed with initials by the artist in pencil, in lower right corner of the drawing on the right.
Date of production supplied by 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: 2 drawings : sheets 13.5 x 11 cm and 13.5 x 11 cm, mounted to 21 x 17 cm and 21 x 16 cm, matted together to 33 x 46 cm
Language: English

Genre: Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor with graphite pencil ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Edward Edwards, Two Designs for a Cabinet at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.