[Elizabethan arm chair] [art original].
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Description
- Title
- [Elizabethan arm chair] [art original].
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1842]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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Depiction of the finely carved chair, the back ornamented with grotesque heads and the center bearing the date 1601, that was owned by Horace Walpole and sold in lot 117 on the seventeenth day of the 1842 Strawberry Hill Sale
- Description
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Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration.
At top of sheet is a small (30 x 50 mm) pen and ink drawing showing the details of the coat of arms carved into the backrest of the chair.
Bound in opposite page 178 in volume 2 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 19.5 x 17 cm, on sheet 30.2 x 24 cm
- Language
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No linguistic content
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
- Collection Title
- Volume 2, opposite page 178. 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]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Watercolors
Ink drawings - Material
- pen and ink and watercolor over pencil ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic)
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Chairs
Coats of arms - Subjects
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Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Chairs
Coats of arms
Mackinlay, Thomas > Ownership
Boord, Thomas William, Sir > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- 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
- Elizabethan Arm Chair. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15668711
- Object ID (OID)
- 17469285
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