A circular brick-tower at Tottenham 16-f. diameter, about 40 f. high in all : in the fore-part or court-yard at Lord Colerane's house, which has been built time out of mind / [art original]

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Lewis Walpole Library > A circular brick-tower at Tottenham 16-f. diameter, about 40 f. high in all : in the fore-part or court-yard at Lord Colerane's house, which has been built time out of mind / [art original]

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Title: A circular brick-tower at Tottenham 16-f. diameter, about 40 f. high in all : in the fore-part or court-yard at Lord Colerane's house, which has been built time out of mind / [art original]
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title from ink inscription at top of image.
Signed by the artist in ink in lower right, using his monogrammatic initials.
Date supplied by cataloger.
With a scale in feet drawn to the right of image. Also with the note "x this part pulld. down by the late Lord -", referring to an "x" marked on the top portion of the depicted structure.
Mounted on page 71 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 32, to Smith [London, 1268]. Lord Waldegrave, July 1948, to W.S. Lewis, in a collection.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 55.8 x 30.2 cm, folded to 24.9 x 30.2 cm, mounted on page 27 x 41 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3581 v.1
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 71. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [ca. 1757]