[Sketches for Round Drawing Room at Strawberry Hill] [art original].
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Description
- Title
- [Sketches for Round Drawing Room at Strawberry Hill] [art original].
- Creator
- Chute, John, 1701-1776, artist
- Published / Created
- [not after 1797]
- Publication Place
- England
- Description
-
Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to John Chute from local card catalog record.
Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted.
Two drawings on separate sheets, mounted together one above the other.
Annotations accompany the vignettes in the drawings, with "circular room 12 feet high" written in pencil across top of uppermost drawing. Also in the upper drawing, "eight stools" is written in ink next to a circular design, and the notes "fret work inside of roof" and "low head boards pierced ..." are written next to two small depictions of a chimneypiece. In the lower drawing, the notes "flat & square" and "balustrade 2 f. 1/2 high" are written next to a patterned design.
Several additional sketches of architectural details, in pen and ink and pencil, are present on the verso of the sheet mounted at top.
Mounted on page 121.8 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 : sheets 10.6 x 12.8 cm and 5.6 x 11.1 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 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 121.8. 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
-
Design drawings
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
Chimneypieces - Subjects
-
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Chimneypieces
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Citation
- John Chute, Sketches for Round Drawing Room at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15643157
- Object ID (OID)
- 33207397