Birkhead in Kings Vale royal sable, 3 garbs or a border argent [Arms of Derehaugh]. [art original]
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33207391
Description
- Title
- Birkhead in Kings Vale royal sable, 3 garbs or a border argent [Arms of Derehaugh]. [art original]
- Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, artist
- Published / Created
- [not after 1797]
- Publication Place
- England
- Description
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Title of top drawing from note in Horace Walpole's hand written beside it; title of bottom drawing supplied by curator.
Unsigned; attributed to Horace Walpole by curator.
Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date.
Two small drawings on one sheet, positioned above and below twelve lines of manuscript in Horace Walpole's hand beginning: Sir Jeffery Burwell's mother was daughter & heiress of Jeffery Pitman ...
Mounted on page 121.5 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 18.4 x 11.7 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 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 121.5. 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
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Ink drawings British 18th century
Amateur works - Material
- pen and brown ink ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
- Coats of arms
- Subjects
-
Coats of arms
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Citation
- Horace Walpole, Birkhead in Kings Vale Royal Sable, 3 Garbs or a Border Argent; Arms of Derehaugh. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15643004
- Object ID (OID)
- 33207391
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