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Description: The Library at Strawberry Hill

TitleThe Library at Strawberry Hill

Creator nameEdwards, Edward

Creator name (description)Attributed to Edward Edwards

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1781

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsWatercolor, pencil, and pen and ink on laid paper

Dimensions31 × 45.3 cm

LocationLewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington, Connecticut

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10980510

Accession numberSH Views Ed25 no. 7+ Box 200

SubjectsLibraries in artGothic revival (Architecture)--Great BritainDrawing, British

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9. The Streatham Worthies

Mark Hallett

Reynolds: Portraiture in Action

~~While the exhibition space offered Reynolds a rich and supple environment in which to develop and advertise his practice, once his portraits were installed in the houses of his patrons, they would find themselves part of very different forms of pictorial display. Our knowledge of precisely where Reynolds’s paintings initially...

Author

Mark Hallett

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.287-309

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00296.10

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Chapter subject tags:Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Portrait painting, British--18th centuryAristocracy (Social class)--Great Britain--18th centuryMen--Societies and clubs--Great Britain--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th century

Chapter 21. The Legacy

Tim Knox

William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain

WILLIAM KENT was laid to rest in the Burlington family vault in the Parish Church at Chiswick, just as he had asked in his will...

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Tim Knox

PublisherBard Graduate Center

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.589-605

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00218.021

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20606&redirecttoanchor=57713

Chapter subject tags:Kent, William, 1685-1748Architecture, British--18th centuryWalpole, Horace, 1717-1797Pattern books--England--18th centuryLandscape architecture--Great Britain--18th centuryAdam, Robert, 1728-1792

I. Spaces of Portrayal

Marcia Pointon

Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England

Attempts to restore historic houses to an approximation of their original condition are now commonly accompanied by efforts not only to install ‘authentic’ fixtures...

Author

Marcia Pointon

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.13-52

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00062.005

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Chapter subject tags:England--Social life and customs--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryHistoric buildings--Britain--18th centuryWalpole, Horace, 1717-1797Country homes--England--18th centuryInterior decoration--England--18th centuryReynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788Romney, George, 1734-1802

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