Kitty Clive's house at Strawberry Hill [art original].

Description

Title: Kitty Clive's house at Strawberry Hill [art original].
Creator: Smith, Charles John, 1803-1838, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1836]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: View of Little Strawberry Hill, which was home to actress Kitty Clive in the 1780's. Trees flank the house on either side; a group of women and children stand on the path in the right foreground
Description: Title written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand.
Artist and date of production from note in ink on mounting sheet: This is the original drawing by Charles John Smith from which he engraved the plate for Murray's Johnsoniana published in 1836, p. 177.
Mounted on page 5 in T. Crofton Croker's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Provenance: Formerly owned by T. Crofton Croker, with his bookplate in the volume. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Gaskill, in a collection, 1939.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 9.5 x 14.3 cm, on sheet 11.4 x 14.9 cm, mounted to 21 x 27 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 485 842 C76 VI Copy 5
Collection Title: Page 5. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842]

Genre: Views
Book illustrations
Wash drawings
Material: brown and gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name): Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Buildings, structures, etc
Dwellings
Subjects: Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785 > Homes and haunts
Twickenham (London, England) > Buildings, structures, etc
Dwellings
Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798-1854 > Ownership

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: Charles John Smith, Kitty Clive's House at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.