Gate for the flower garden [art original]

Description

Title: Gate for the flower garden [art original]
Creator: Chute, John, 1701-1776, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1776]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title and statement of responsibility from notes in ink above image, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
Mounted on page 121.13 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 18.8 x 14.5 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 2523
Collection Title: Page 121.13. 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]