The Strawberry Hill sale [art original].
- Published/Created:
- [England]
[1842] - Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : gray wash on wove paper ; sheet 15.2 x 10.4 cm
- Notes:
- Title from a later caption inscribed in graphite pencil below image.
Date based on the date of the sale of Horace Walpole's collections at Strawberry Hill.
Curatorial note: The scene in the drawing may not depict The Strawberry Hill sale due to a lack of specific details.
Sotheby's Olympia lot 242 to Bernard Quaritch, 2 July 2003. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, July 2003. - Abstract:
- An auctioneer with gavel in raised hand presides over a crowd of bidders wearing tall top hats and long coats as they frantically scribble notes and examine items indistinclty depicted in the background.
- Topics:
- Auctioneers.
Auctions.
Gavels. - Topics:
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)--Art collections.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Wash drawings.
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Paintings & Drawings
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 52 Box D160
- Orbis Record:
- 6292044
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr15050
- Citation:
- The Strawberry Hill Sale. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 10977943
- PID:
- digcoll:2755723
