Bronze vase, antique [art original].
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001012718
- Copyright Date:
- [not after 1810]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : pen and gray wash on laid paper ; sheet 21.7 x 16 cm, inlaid to 29.5 x 23 cm
- Notes:
- Title written in ink below image.
Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card.
Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found.
Inlaid on page 68b in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Probably from Thomas Kirgate's library, with his (as well as Horace Walpole's) manuscript notes in the volume. Sold at Sotheby's, 12 June 1933 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 365, to Maggs. Sold by Maggs to W.S. Lewis, August 1933. - Abstract:
- Drawing composed of two images of a vase that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The top image shows the vase full-length from the side, with human and animal figures visible on the upper part of the vessel. This ornamentation, a depictioin of a sacrifice to Priapus that wraps completely around the vase, is expanded horizontally in the bottom image so that the entire scene is visible.
- Topics:
- Vases.
- Topics:
- Kirgate, Thomas,--1734-1810--Ownership.
Priapus--(Greek deity),--depicted.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018058213
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002938 - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Wash drawings--British--19th 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
- Source Title:
- Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
- Orbis Record:
- 13782324
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Citation:
- G.P. Harding, Bronze Vase, Antique. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16822562
- PID:
- digcoll:4777906
