[A 'coquet sphinx'] [graphic]

Description

Title: [A 'coquet sphinx'] [graphic]
Published / Created: [approximately 1785?]
Publication Place: England?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Depiction of a sphinx with a woman's head, facing right, sitting on a pedestal
Description: Title devised by curator, taken from the footnote on page 51 of: Walpole, H. Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Strawberry Hill, 1785.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalogue record.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted to 18 x 24 cm.
Bound in opposite page 51 of Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ..., in a volume with the binder's title: Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Charles Bedford, with his bookplate in the volume and his cypher on the spine. Later owned by William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave, with his armorial bookplate. Purchased from Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave, by W.S. Lewis; July 1948.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 11.9 x 19.1 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 335 T
Collection Title: Opposite page 51 in Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772-1785.
Collection Date: Strawberry Hill, 1758-1790?