Chimney in the Little Parlour [art original] / GPH [monogram].
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001012718
- Copyright Date:
- [not after 1806?]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : gray wash with pen and ink on wove paper ; image 17.4 x 17 cm, on sheet 20.7 x 19 cm
- Notes:
- Date of production based on death date of Richard Bull, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears.
Mounted on page 52 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.
Signed by the artist in ink in lower right corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above.
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 brown ink below image, in a contemporary hand. - Abstract:
- Wash drawing of the chimneypiece in the Little Parlour at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham. Its design was taken from the tomb of Thomas Ruthall, Bishop of Durham, in Westminster Abbey. A saracen's head, the crest from the Walpole family arms, sits atop a blank shield at the center of the mantel.
- Topics:
- Chimneypieces.
- 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
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Homes and haunts. - Caption:
- Chimney in the Little Parlour [art original] / GPH [monogram].
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Ink drawings--British--19th century.
Wash drawings--British--19th century. - 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:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Orbis Record:
- 13438192
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr15407
- Citation:
- G.P. Harding, Chimney in the Little Parlour. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16732943
- PID:
- digcoll:4709970
