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

Description

Title: [Interior of the building for the sale] [art original]
Creator: Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer), artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1842]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Interior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842. Several dozen men in top hats and some women sit or stand around a long table on the left; the auctioneer George Robins sits on a platform on the right, holding a gavel
Description: Title devised by curator.
Signed by the artist in lower left corner of image.
Bound in as page 127 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 13.3 x 20.7 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 127. 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: Watercolors
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Interiors
Auctions
Auctioneers
Subjects: Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Interiors
Auctions
Auctioneers
Mackinlay, Thomas > Ownership
Boord, Thomas William, Sir > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Thomas H. Shepherd, Interior of the Building for the Sale. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.