[Portrait of George Robins sitting at a table] [art original]

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Title: [Portrait of George Robins sitting at a table] [art original]
Creator: Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer), artist
Published / Created: [1843]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: The auctioneer George Robins is shown full-length in profile to the left, sitting at a small table draped with a tablecloth, an inkwell and a goblet on the table in front of him. He sits on the 16th-century oak chair from Glastonbury Abbey, an item from Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill that Robins auctioned off in 1842
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Signed with initials and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image.
Bound in as page 161 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 18.2 x 15.4 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 161. 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: Portrait drawings
Watercolors
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Auctioneers
Tables
Chairs
Writing materials
Drinking vessels
Subjects: Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Auctioneers
Tables
Chairs
Writing materials
Drinking vessels
Mackinlay, Thomas > Ownership
Boord, Thomas William, Sir > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Thomas H. Shepherd, Portrait of George Robins Sitting at a Table. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.