[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: Bell, E., artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1842]
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 in lower left corner with the initials of artist E. Bell.
Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration.
Mounted with a clipped facsimile signature of George Robins, a clipping about Robins having "assumed for his throne the very ancient chair of oak once pertaining to Glastonbury Abbey", and another clipping about the chair itself.
Mounted on page 65 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Pickering & Chatto, March 1951.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 12.2 x 12 cm, mounted to 26 x 21 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 485 842 C76 V Copy 7
Collection Title: Page 65. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
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

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