The Garden at Strawberry Hill
Watercolour
1772 (made)
1772 (made)
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| Place of origin |
View of the north front of Strawberry Hill, seen from the flower garden.
Object details
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| Title | The Garden at Strawberry Hill (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | watercolour on paper |
| Brief description | 'The Garden at Strawberry Hill', watercolour, William Pars, Britain, 18th century |
| Physical description | View of the north front of Strawberry Hill, seen from the flower garden. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 2 0 Clock (Inscribed in pencil) |
| Gallery label | Horace Walpole devoted much of his life to transforming Strawberry Hill, the Twickenham estate he acquired in 1747. Over the next fifty years the house was greatly enlarged, the grounds grew nine-fold and many small garden buildings were introduced. Walpole had a keen interest in garden design and insisted that his garden be full of colour and incident to form a definite contrast to the dark Gothic exterior of the house. He commissioned this watercolour as a record of his work.(2005) |
| Object history | Provenance: Commissioned by Horace Walpole (not in the 1842 Strawberry Hill sale);... Lord O'Hagen, by whom sold at Christie's 19 March 1985, lot 16. |
| Historical context | House and gardens designed 1747-92 |
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| Bibliographic reference | Snodin, Michael (ed.), Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009
Fig.105 |
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| Accession number | P.10-1985 |
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| Record created | March 13, 2003 |
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