[Catalogue of pictures in the Cabinet] side where the cabinet of ivories is. [art original]
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Description
- Title
- [Catalogue of pictures in the Cabinet] side where the cabinet of ivories is. [art original]
- Alternative Title
- Side where the cabinet of ivories is
- Published / Created
- [not after 1797]
- Publication Place
- England
- Description
-
Beginning of title from first drawing in the series, found on verso of sheet; 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.
Second in a series of four drawings showing the layout of the walls of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill, with the number "2" written in upper right corner of sheet. On verso is the first drawing in the series: Catalogue of pictures in the Cabinet : side fronting the door.
Mounted on page 121.6 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 31.3 cm, inlaid to 26.5 x 42.2 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 121.6. 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
- 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
Pictures
Cabinets (Case furniture) - Subjects
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Pictures
Cabinets (Case furniture)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Citation
- Catalogue of Pictures in the Cabinet: Side Where the Cabinet of Ivories Is. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15643032
- Object ID (OID)
- 33207392
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