The armour worn by Francis I of France [art original] : drawn from the original at Strawberry-Hill.
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84043739
- Copyright Date:
- [ca. 1790]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : pen and ink and watercolor on wove paper ; sheet 23.7 x 14 cm
- Notes:
- Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card.
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 93 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 inscribed in ink on two narrow strips of paper mounted below image. - Abstract:
- Drawing of the ornate steel gilt armor of Francis I, King of France, that was kept by Horace Walpole in a niche on the staircase at Strawberry Hill.
- Topics:
- Armor.
- Topics:
- Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
Curtis, Charles Constable,--1852-1936--Ownership.
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow,---1944--Ownership.
Francis--I,--King of France,--1494-1547.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50038638
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002938 - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Ink drawings--British--18th century.
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 33 30 Copy 11
- Orbis Record:
- 13473441
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr15487
- Citation:
- John Carter, The Armour Worn by Francis I of France. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16729694
- PID:
- digcoll:4703410
