[Tyles with arms, from the cathedral at Gloucester] [art original].

Description

Title: [Tyles with arms, from the cathedral at Gloucester] [art original].
Alternative Title: Tiles with arms, from the cathedral at Gloucester
Published / Created: [not after 1854]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Watercolor drawings of four tiles decorated with arms or other heraldic designs. These are presumably depictions of the Medieval tiles in the floor of the China Room at Strawberry Hill, stated by Horace Walpole to be from Gloucester Cathedral; however, the third drawing in the group is labeled "Tyle from Bysham Abbey" in pencil
Description: Title supplied by curator, taken from text on page 6 of the 1784 edition of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date of production based on death date of T. Crofton Croker, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found.
Bound in as pages 45 to 48 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: 4 drawings on 4 sheets : sheets 27 x 21 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 485 842 C76 VI Copy 5
Collection Title: Pages 45-48. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
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): Tiles
Coats of arms
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Tiles
Coats of arms
Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798-1854 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Tyles with Arms, from the Cathedral at Gloucester. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.