[Floor plan of a room] Fontainebleau window, shelf over it. [art original]
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33207387
Description
- Title
- [Floor plan of a room] Fontainebleau window, shelf over it. [art original]
- Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, artist
- Published / Created
- [not after 1797]
- Publication Place
- England
- Description
-
Title of drawing on the left supplied by cataloger; title of drawing on the right from note in ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Unsigned; attributed to Horace Walpole by curator.
Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date.
Two small drawings side-by-side on one sheet, possibly sketches of the China-Room at Strawberry Hill. The drawing on the left, a square design that might be a floor plan, has written above it the word "Dairy"(?) beneath the scored through words "China Room"; the annotation "Door Etruscan" is to the right of the image, between the two drawings. The drawing on the right, titled below, has additional design notes written above and below image: Grotesque ceiling from Herculaneum ; white tyles ; Etruscan border black & yellow orange ; shelves black & orange ; [...?] Etruscan ; Etruscan floor.
Mounted on page 121.21 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
- 2 drawings : sheet 15.2 x 19.0 cm, inlaid to 21 x 27 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 49 2523
- Collection Title
- Page 121.21. 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]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Ink drawings
Amateur works - Material
- pen and brown ink ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - Subject (Topic)
-
Homes and haunts
Floor plans
Windows
Shelving - Subjects
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Floor plans
Windows
Shelving
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Citation
- Horace Walpole, Floor Plan of a Room; Fontainebleau Window, Shelf Over It. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15644140
- Object ID (OID)
- 33207387
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