Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham the seat of the Honourable Mr. Walpole / [graphic]

Description

Title: Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham the seat of the Honourable Mr. Walpole / [graphic]
Creator: Rooker, Edward, -1774, printmaker
Contributor: Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, artist.
Kearsley, George, -1790, publisher.
Published / Created: Novr. 1st, 1774.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published according to act of Parliament G. Kearsly in Fleet Street
Abstract: View from the east of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham; with two men pulling a lawn roller across the grass
Description: Title etched below image.
Mounted on second leaf following title page 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.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 15.8 x 20.1 cm, inlaid to 21 x 27 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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 print : plate mark 163 x 206 mm, on sheet 190 x 241 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 2523
Collection Title: Second leaf following title page. 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]