[Outside of the building for the sale] [art original]

Description

Title: [Outside of the building for the sale] [art original]
Creator: Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer), artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1842]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Exterior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842, with part of Horace Walpole's Gothic villa visible on the left
Description: Title devised by curator.
Signed by the artist in lower left portion of image.
Bound in as page 126 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 12.1 x 18.0 cm, on sheet 23.7 x 30.4 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 126. 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 (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Subject (Topic): Buildings
Auctions
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Buildings
Auctions
Mackinlay, Thomas > Ownership
Boord, Thomas William, Sir > Ownership

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Thomas H. Shepherd, Outside of the Building for the Sale. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.