[Earthen bottle with 'Sack 1647' painted on it] [art original].

Copyright Date:

[ca. 1790]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : gray wash on laid paper ; sheet 3.6 x 4 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2799659 http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/4703366

Notes:

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 45 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.
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. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, August 1937.
Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist not identified.

Abstract:

Drawing of a jug-like bottle with a handle that was owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill. This type of bottle was sold by apothecaries, and this particular example was from the collection of Mrs. Kennon, the virtuosa midwife.

Topics:

Bottles.
Pottery.

Topics:

Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
Curtis, Charles Constable,--1852-1936--Ownership.
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow,---1944--Ownership.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002938

Language:

English

Genre:

Wash drawings--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 33 30 Copy 11

Orbis Record:

13405218

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr15398

Citation:

Earthen Bottle with 'Sack 1647' Painted on It. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

16729658

PID:

digcoll:4703366