View of Strawberry Hill [art original] / by Dobbyns, 1786.
- Creator:
- Dobbyns, artist.
- Copyright Date:
- [1786]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : watercolor with pen and ink on laid paper, with wash-line mount ; sheet 30.3 x 44.2 cm, mounted to 38.7 x 52.7 cm
- Notes:
- Formerly mounted on page 16 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Sabin, August 1927.
Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand. - Abstract:
- View of Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's estate in Twickenham. The house is seen in the distance, partially obscured by the surrounding trees. Three horses walk towards a man on the lawn in the foreground; four cows rest nearby in the shadows beneath a row of trees. Clouds fill the sky above.
- Topics:
- Dwellings.
Estates. - Topics:
- Knight, William,---1847--Ownership.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)--Pictorial works.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ms. notes.
Walpole, Horace--1717-1797--Homes and haunts. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Views.
Watercolors--British--18th 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
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Orbis Record:
- 13266145
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr16039
- Citation:
- Dobbyns, View of Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16850838
- PID:
- digcoll:4830848
