[Hand in the Tribune] [art original] ; [Detail of the work around the hand].
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist.
- Copyright Date:
- [ca. 1790]
- Physical Description:
- 2 drawings on 1 sheet : gray wash with pen and ink on laid paper ; image 15 x 8 cm and image 6.5 x 18 cm, on sheet 33.6 x 27.8 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.
Inscription in pencil below bottom image: All the work round the hand.
Inscription in pencil below top image: In the tribune (size of the original).
Mounted on page 163 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 cataloger. - Abstract:
- Pair of wash drawings, one above the other, showing overall and detail views of the bronze hand kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. Described by Walpole as "an Egyptian hieroglyphic hand," this sculpture is shown in the top drawing to stand upright with the wrist as its base. The thumb, index finger, and middle finger point upwards with items balancing upon their tips; the last two fingers are curled inward towards the palm. The bottom drawing shows in detail the pictures and symbols that decorate the palm and back side of the hand; these include a snake that wraps around the entirety of the hand.
- Variant Titles:
- In the Tribune (size of the original) ;
- Topics:
- Sculpture.
- Topics:
- Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
Curtis, Charles Constable,--1852-1936--Ownership.
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow,---1944--Ownership.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - Caption:
- [Hand in the Tribune] [art original] ; [Detail of the work around the hand].
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Ink drawings--British--18th century.
Wash drawings--British--18th 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:
- 13533345
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr15622
- Citation:
- John Carter, Hand in the Tribune; Detail of the Work Around the Hand. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16733055
- PID:
- digcoll:4710143
