Exterior of the temporary sale room [art original]

Description

Title: Exterior of the temporary sale room [art original]
Creator: Bell, E., artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1842]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Exterior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842, with part of Horace Walpole's Gothic villa visible on the left
Description: Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet.
Artist "E.B." identified as E. Bell in local card catalog record.
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 on page 71 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 11.1 x 16.3 cm, mounted to 21 x 26 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 485 842 C76 V Copy 7
Collection Title: Page 71. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842]

Access: Public
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Citation: E. Bell, Exterior of the Temporary Sale Room. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.