The cabinet of miniatures and enamels [art original].
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16733053
Description
- Title
- The cabinet of miniatures and enamels [art original].
- Creator
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Contributor
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, designer.
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1790]
- Publication Place
- Twickenham
- Abstract
-
Drawing of the cabinet of rosewood, designed by Horace Walpole himself, that was kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. Three small statues of ivory stand on top of the pediment; Walpole's arms are centered within the pediment below. On the drawer below the cabinet doors is an image of a lion within an oval; two eagle heads flank the drawer on either side. The doors of the cabinet are open, with oval and square miniatures seen hanging within the cabinet and on the insides of the doors. Below the image is a scale bar
- Description
-
Title written in ink below image.
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 161 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.
For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- 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.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : sheet 32.6 x 28 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century - Material
- pen and ink, ink wash and watercolor ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic)
-
Miniatures (Paintings)
Cabinets (Case furniture) - Subjects
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Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Miniatures (Paintings)
Cabinets (Case furniture)
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- John Carter, The Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13531471
- Object ID (OID)
- 16733053
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