[Arms of Walpole and Etchingham] [art original].

Description

Title: [Arms of Walpole and Etchingham] [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title supplied by curator.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted.
On sheet with thirteen lines of manuscript bearing the title "Histy. of Norfolk - Houghton" at top; the name "Walpole" is written immediately to the left of image, and the name "Etchingham" immediately to the right.
Mounted on page 121.14 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 : image 25 x 23 mm, on sheet 19.7 x 15.4 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 121.14. 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]