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• Title:East front of Strawberry Hill [graphic].
  
• Publication:[London] : [G.G. and J. Robinson], [1798]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 19.6 cm x 33.7 cm, on sheet 29.4 x 41.6 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio 33 30 Copy 4
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Mounted on page 7 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.
    1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 17.8 x 31.5 cm.
    Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of numbering from upper right.
    
  • Provenance:Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933.
    Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
    
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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: SH Views Sa5 no. 1+ Impression 2 Box 205
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Single crease through the center of the image.
    
  • Provenance:Gift of John W. McConnell; Jan. 1969.
    
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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: SH Views Sa5 no. 1+ Impression 1 Box 205
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Two creases through the image.
    
  •   Digital version
    

   
• Medium:wove paper.
  
• Notes:Title etched below image.
  Printmaker unidentified; after a drawing by Paul Sandby.
  Later state of the plate, with volume and page numbering added in upper right corner. Plate originally engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
  Plate from: The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London : Printed for G.G and J. Robinson, 1798, v. 2.
  Numbered in the upper right: Vol. II. Pl. II. P. 512.
  Original: Watercolor in The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. Sandby, Paul. East Front of Strawberry Hill.
  
• Summary:"View of the Gothic mansion with pinnacles on the battlemented roof and pointed arched windows, seen across the lawn to the right, surrounded by trees, with others to the left and two men in the left foreground, one sweeping the lawn, the other guiding a horse which draws a roller."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Gascoigne, B. Images of Twickenham. Richmond-upon-Thames : Saint Helena Press, 1981, 272a
  
• Subjects:Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797--Homes and haunts.
  Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), depicted.
  Estates.
  Twickenham (London, England)--Buildings, structures, etc.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Bawtree, William, 1744-1824--Ownership.
  Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912--Ownership.
  Breaker, William D.--Ownership.
  
• Genre/Form:Views.
  Book illustrations.
  Etchings--England--London--1798.
  Engravings--England--London--1798.
  
• Also listed under:Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, artist.
  G. G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row, London, England), publisher.