Christopher Amberger painter flor. 1530. [art original]

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Title: Christopher Amberger painter flor. 1530. [art original]
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found.
Tipped in opposite page 95 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of Anecdotes of painting in England.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, with his armorial bookplate, notes, etc. in the volume. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iv, lot 139, to Boone for Lord Derby. Sold at Christie's, 20 October 1953 (Knowsley Hall Sale), lot 314. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Maggs.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 13.6 x 9.8 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 2519 v.1
Collection Title: Volume 1, opposite page 95. Anecdotes of painting in England.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771[i.e. 1780]

Genre: Portrait drawings
Ink drawings
Material: pen and ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Amberger, Christoph,
Subjects: Amberger, Christoph, -1561 or 1562
Derby, Edward John Stanley, 18th earl of, 1918- > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Christopher Amberger Painter. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.