Non me Praxiteles finxit, at Anna Damer, 1787. H.W.

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Title: Non me Praxiteles finxit, at Anna Damer, 1787. H.W.
Alternative Title: Label for the fishing eagle modelled by Mrs. Damer
Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, author
Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England), publisher.
Published / Created: [1787?]
Publication Place: Twickenham, England and England London
Publisher: Strawberry Hill Press
Description: Title from first line of text.
Title in Hazen: Label for the fishing eagle modelled by Mrs. Damer. 1787.
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.
Sheet: 2 x 11.5 cm, mounted and bound to 56 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
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 sheet ([1] page) ; 1.8 x 11.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English