[Gothic building] [art original]

Description

Title: [Gothic building] [art original]
Creator: Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer), artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1842]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: View of a large Gothic-style building in the middle distance, framed by trees and with low bushes in front. A groundskeeper and two cows seen on the lawn in front of the structure; a small boat is moored to the shore of the body of water in the foreground
Description: Title devised by curator.
Signed in lower left corner with the artist Thomas H. Shepherd's initials.
Date of production based on the inclusion in the same volume of other drawings by Shepherd that depict the temporary building for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842.
Bound in as page 125 in volume 1 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Thomas Mackinlay. Also owned by Sir Thomas William Boord, Bart., with his bookplate in the volumes. Sold at Sotheby's, Mrs. E.M. Copeman, lot 110, 3 June 1935, to W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 18.7 x 15.9 cm, on sheet 30.4 x 23.7 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 125. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842]

Genre: Views
Watercolors
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Buildings
Bodies of water
Boats
Subjects: Buildings
Bodies of water
Boats
Mackinlay, Thomas > Ownership
Boord, Thomas William, Sir > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Thomas H. Shepherd, Gothic Building. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.