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    • Author/Creator:Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist.
    • Title:[Walpole arms with stag, antelope, motto, and Strawberry Hill in the background] [art original].
    • Production:[England], [not after 1824]
    • Physical Description:1 drawing : watercolor with ink ; sheet 26.5 x 23 cm
    • Yale Holdings

       
    • Medium:wove paper.
    • Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
      Motto on shield: Fari quae sentiat.
      Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
      Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
      Mounted on page 5 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
      Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver. Purchased from Spencer, June 1951, £100; ex dono Annie Burr Lewis.
    • Variant and related titles:Fari quae sentiat
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Cite as:G.P. Harding, Walpole Arms with Stag, Antelope, Motto, and Strawberry Hill in the Background. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)--Art collections.
      Walpole family.
      Coats of arms.
      Antelopes.
      Deer.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Bawtree, William, 1744-1824--Ownership.
    • Genre/Form:Watercolors--British--19th century.