View of Twickenham from the garden of Strawberry Hill [art original] / by E. Edwards 1783.
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist.
- Copyright Date:
- [1783]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : pen and ink and watercolor on laid paper, with wash-line mount ; sheet 18 x 37.6 cm, mounted to 25.4 x 45.6 cm
- Notes:
- Formerly laid in 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.
Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount: E.E. 1783.
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 from the garden at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's estate in Twickenham, with the Thames visible in the middle distance at right. A man on horseback travels the road on the near side of the river; another figure stands by the obelisk at the junction of roads near the center of the image. Mr. Briscoe's house is seen beyond the obelisk; other buildings are faintly visible further down the river in the far distance. Two men, one holding a broom and the other kneeling down next to a basket, work in the field in the foreground.
- Topics:
- Estates.
- Topics:
- Knight, William,---1847--Ownership.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)--Pictorial works.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ms. notes.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.
Walpole, Horace--1717-1797--Homes and haunts. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Ink drawings--British--18th century.
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:
- 13266567
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr16488
- Citation:
- Edward Edwards, View of Twickenham from the Garden of Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16850873
- PID:
- digcoll:4830876
