Summer-Hill near Tunbridge [art original].

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Title: Summer-Hill near Tunbridge [art original].
Alternative Title: Somerhill near Tonbridge
Published / Created: [ca. 1750]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title from note in ink above image, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date of production from Horace Walpole's note below image: This view was taken about 1750. It was then a farm house.
Tipped in opposite page 239 in Horace Walpole's copy of the Strawberry Hill Press edition of Hamilton's Memoires du comte de Grammont.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, with his arms on sides of binding. Volume sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iv, lot 144, to Strong. Sotheby's, 3 May 1817 (J.H.S. Pigott Sale, Part 1), lot 182, to Pickering; Sotheby's, 22 May 1848 (Eyton Sale), lot 1459, to Cunningham; Sotheby's, 27 February 1855 (Cunningham Sale), lot 339, to Toovey; offered by Sotheran, December 1879, lot 382; Sotheby's, 20 December 1929 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 870, to Tregaskis. Sold by Tregaskis to W.S. Lewis, August 1931.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 7.1 x 15.9 cm, on sheet 17.3 x 22.0 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 2511
Collection Title: Opposite page 239. Memoires du comte de Grammont.
Collection / Other Creator: Hamilton, Anthony, Count, ca. 1646-1720.
Collection Date: Imprimée à Strawberry-Hill : [Strawberry Hill Press], MDCCLXXII [1772]

Genre: Pictorial works
Views
Ink drawings
Material: pen and ink with pencil ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Kent (England)
Subject (Topic): Buildings, structures, etc
Houses
Subjects: Kent (England) > Buildings, structures, etc > Pictorial works
Houses
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Pigott, John Hugh Smyth, d. 1853 > Ownership
Eyton, Joseph Walter King > Ownership
Cunningham, Peter, 1816-1869 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Summer-Hill near Tunbridge. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.