11.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1802]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
- Collection Title:
- Page 25. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of the monument in St. Mary's Church, with the bust of the Countess of Ailesbury sitting on a pedestal at center, head shrouded. Columns supporting an ornate roof flank the bust on either side, the area between their bases decorated with a pattern of quatrefoils. A winged cherub head hangs from the bottom of each column. A scale bar runs along the bottom of the sheet
- Alternative Title:
- Monument of the Countess of Ailesbury in the church at Sundridge, Kent
- Description:
- Title written in ink at bottom of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on watermark: A. Blackwell & G. Jones 1802., and Mounted on page 25 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
- Subject (Name):
- Ailesbury, Caroline Campbell, Countess of, 1721-1803.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The monument of the Cts. of Ailesbury in the church at Sundridge, Kent the bust by the Honble. Anne Seymour Damer, her daughter. [art original]
