Two mummies in the Tribune, size of the originals [art original] : no. 1 is granite, no. 2 a sort of red clay.
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist.
- Copyright Date:
- [ca. 1790]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : pen and ink and gray wash with watercolor on laid paper ; sheet 33.2 x 28.7 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 176 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 below image. - Abstract:
- Drawing of two small statues that were kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The female figure on the left, labeled "No. I" lightly in pencil above, stands on a pedestal with her arms extended towards the viewer; human and animal images cover her clothing, griffins and birds decorate the plaques extending behind her head, and a castle tower (?) serves as a hat. The figure on the right, labeled "No. II", is shaped like an Egyptian sacophagus, the portion below the crossed arms being covered with hieroglyphs.
- Topics:
- Figurines.
Sarcophagi.
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:
- Two mummies in the Tribune, size of the originals [art original] : no. 1 is granite, no. 2 a sort of red clay.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Ink drawings--British--18th century.
Wash drawings--British--18th century.
Watercolors--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:
- 13546252
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr15651
- Citation:
- John Carter, Two Mummies in the Tribune, Size of the Originals. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16733068
- PID:
- digcoll:4710154
