[Label for the fishing eagle modelled by Mrs. Damer].

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Title: [Label for the fishing eagle modelled by Mrs. Damer].
Alternative Title: Non me Praxiteles finxit, at Anna Damer, 1787. H.W.
Published / Created: [1787]
Publisher: Strawberry Hill
Description: Mounted on page 253 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
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Provenance: Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent: 1 l. 2 x 11.5 cm., mounted, bound to 56 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English