Strawberry Hill, the seat of Mr. Horace Walpole [graphic].

Description

Title: Strawberry Hill, the seat of Mr. Horace Walpole [graphic].
Contributor: Goadby, Robert, 1721-1778, publisher.
Published / Created: [1772]
Publication Place: Sherborne, England
Publisher: R. Goadby
Abstract: A view of the east front of Strawberry Hill, looking from the Thames. A gentleman and lady converse on the left. On the right a workman tends the lawn with a scythe
Description: Title engraved below image.
Publisher and date of publication from contemporary manuscript note "From The weekly miscellany no. 11, 1772, very inaccurately taken" in upper margin. The weekly miscellany was a continuation, from 1773 onward, of: An appendix to the Sherborne mercury, or, The weekly magazine. [Sherborne] : [R. Goadby], 1772-.
Plate from: An appendix to the Sherborne mercury, or, The weekly magazine. [Sherborne] : [R. Goadby], 1772.
A later state of the plate, with volume number added in upper left, was published in: New display of the beauties of England. London : R. Goadby, 1773.
Sheet trimmed to / within plate mark.
"P. 22"--Above image in upper right.
Cf. Gascoigne, B. Images of Twickenham. Richmond-upon-Thames : Saint Helena Press, 1981, 254.
Mounted opposite page 1 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.
Inlaid to 27 x 21 cm.
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 print : sheet 11.7 x 19.8 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State without volume no.].
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 2523
Collection Title: Opposite page 1. 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]