The Library at Strawberry-Hill [art original] / John Carter 1788 delt.
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist.
- Copyright Date:
- [1788]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : watercolor on laid paper ; image 15.9 x 22 cm, on sheet 24.6 x 30.9 cm
- Notes:
- Mounted on page 74 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner.
Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Sabin, August 1927.
Title from note in artist's hand below image. - Abstract:
- A drawing of the library at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham. Shelves with Gothic arches line three walls and are filled with books; on the back wall is a large arched window and two small rose windows filled with painted glass. On the far left is the chimney-piece imitated from the tomb of John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall in Westminster Abbey, over which the painting of The Marriage of Henry VI hangs. In front of the firepalce is a desk on which Mrs. Damer's terra-cotta eagle sits in its glass case. Half of the ceiling painted by Clermont from Walpole's designs is visible at top; oval and rectangular paintings line the walls above the bookshelves.
- Topics:
- Dwellings--England--Twickenham.
Interiors.
Libraries (Rooms & spaces) - Topics:
- Knight, William,---1847--Ownership.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.
Walpole, Horace--1717-1797--Homes and haunts. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Watercolors--British--18th century.
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- 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:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Orbis Record:
- 13200779
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr16152
- Citation:
- John Carter, The Library at Strawberry-Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16193030
- PID:
- digcoll:4046935
