[Suit of armour] [art original]

Description

Title: [Suit of armour] [art original]
Creator: Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer), artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1842]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Depiction of the suit of armor, shown in an arched niche with a pike and shield, that Horace Walpole believed to be of Francis I, King of France. It sold in lot 77 on the nineteenth day of the 1842 Strawberry Hill Sale
Description: Title devised by curator.
Signed in lower left corner with the artist Thomas H. Shepherd's initials.
Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration.
Bound in as page 192a in volume 3 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 19.7 x 14.5 cm, on sheet 30.6 x 23.6 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
Collection Title: Volume 3, page 192a. 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): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Armor
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Armor
Mackinlay, Thomas > Ownership
Boord, Thomas William, Sir > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Thomas H. Shepherd, Suit of Armour. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.