Two wash drawings, both oval views, of Château des Rochers-Sévigné. In the image on the left the road leading to chateau is on at right, with trees on the left. The image on the right depicts the chateau from the opposite side, with three paths in the foreground leading to a garden. An engraved portrait (12.7 x 7 cm) of Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, duchesse de Longueville, is mounted at center of sheet between the two drawings (see separate record).
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image., Copied from the drawing, done on the spot by Mr. Hinchliffe in 1786, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Breakfast-Room at Strawberry Hill., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 250 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Vitré (France : District)
Subject (Name):
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
