Principal floor of Strawberry-Hill, 1781 [art original].

Description

Title: Principal floor of Strawberry-Hill, 1781 [art original].
Published / Created: [ca. 1781]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
With a lettered key written to the left of the image that identifies the various rooms depicted in the floor plan.
Possibly the original drawing for a plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Bound in as page 121.3 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 27.2 x 16.2 cm, on sheet 31.8 x 20.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 2523
Collection Title: Page 121.3. 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]