[Catalogue of pictures in the Gallery] chimney side. [art original]

Description

Title: [Catalogue of pictures in the Gallery] chimney side. [art original]
Alternative Title: Chimney side
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: England
Description: Beginning of title from first drawing in the series, found on page 121.18 in the same volume; remainder of title written at top of image.
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 key at bottom of image that identifies the pictures that hung on the depicted wall.
Third in a series of four drawings showing the layout of the walls of the Gallery at Strawberry Hill, with the number "2" written in upper right corner of sheet. On verso are the first and second drawings in the series: Catalogue of pictures in the Gallery : the end. And where the great door is.
Tipped in as page 121.19 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 19.6 x 31.0 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 2523
Collection Title: Page 121.19. 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]