The arms and quarterings of Sr. Robert Walpole, Knight of the Garter impaling the arms of Catherine Shorter his first wife, with the arms of the several great families from which she was descended. [art original]

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Title: The arms and quarterings of Sr. Robert Walpole, Knight of the Garter impaling the arms of Catherine Shorter his first wife, with the arms of the several great families from which she was descended. [art original]
Alternative Title: Arms and quarterings of Sir Robert Walpole, Knight of the Garter
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title from note above image, in a contemporary hand.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted.
With a numbered list of the families whose arms are represented, written on either side of image.
Mounted as the frontispiece in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iv, lot 152, to Thorpe, £11.0.6; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842, lot 13219, for £21, and again in 1844; Sotheby's, 26 July 1855 (Charles Meigh Sale), lot 1822, to Toovey; Anderson, 12 November 1919 (Avery Sale), lot 961, to George D. Smith for the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library, $375. New York Public Library, February 1950, to W.S. Lewis, by exchange to Yale for the Lewis Walpole Collection.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 19.9 x 16.6 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 2523
Collection Title: Frontispiece. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]