Front, back and side of the model of the tomb of Sr. Thomas Becket [art original] : in enamel, size of the original.
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist.
- Copyright Date:
- [ca. 1790]
- Physical Description:
- 3 drawings : pen and ink and watercolor on laid paper ; sheet 19.8 x 17.3 cm, sheet 19.7 x 17.1 cm, and sheet 17.7 x 9.5 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 together on page 177 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 written in ink across the bottoms of the two drawings mounted at the top of the page; alternative title written within image of the drawing mounted in the upper right. - Abstract:
- Set of watercolor drawings showing three views of the enamel model of Sir Thomas Becket's tomb that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The drawings of the front and back views are mounted above; the front face of the object is decorated with religious figures and the back face is decorated with geometric designs. The drawing of the side view, mounted below the other two drawings, shows the single standing figure that decorates this face of the object.
- Variant Titles:
- Model of the shrine of St. Thomas Becket
- Topics:
- Models.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments. - Topics:
- Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
Curtis, Charles Constable,--1852-1936--Ownership.
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow,---1944--Ownership.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Thomas,--à Becket, Saint,--1118?-1170. - Language:
- Latin
- 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:
- 13551771
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr15654
- Citation:
- John Carter, Front, Back and Side of the Model of the Tomb of Sr. Thomas Becket. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16729764
- PID:
- digcoll:4703473
