Shrine in the Chapel [art original] / T. Kirgate delt.
- Creator:
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810, artist.
- Copyright Date:
- [not after 1810]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : pen and gray wash with watercolor on laid paper ; sheet 25.7 x 19 cm, inlaid to 28.9 x 23 cm
- Notes:
- Title written in ink below image, on mounting page
Signed by the artist in lower left.
Date based on artist's death date.
Inlaid on page 82a 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 of the shrine, designed by Pietro Cavallini, that was brought to the Chapel at Strawberry Hill from Rome in 1768. Four twisted Corinthian columns form the base of the shrine; four smaller columns, various panels of intricate decoration, and an ornate roof comprise the upper portion of the object. Sitting beneath the shrine is the cross, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, that was bought by Horace Walpole at the sale of Richard Bateman in 1774.
- Topics:
- Crosses.
Shrines. - Topics:
- Cavallini, Pietro, active 13th century-14th century, designer. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr89006034
Kirgate, Thomas,--1734-1810--Ownership.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002938 - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Wash drawings--British--19th century.
Watercolors--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:
- 13782430
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Citation:
- Thomas Kirgate, Shrine in the Chapel. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16822566
- PID:
- digcoll:4777911
