George Selwyn, _ The Hon: Richard Edgcumbe _ & Gilly Williams. [engraving]

George Selwyn, _ The Hon: Richard Edgcumbe _ & Gilly Williams. [engraving]

[A Conversation Piece]

1 print ; on sheet 15 x 23 cm.

P&E L2005G40.219m

Titled "A Conversation Piece" by Reynolds, it shows three men working in the library at Strawberry Hill, Twinkenham, home of Horace Walpole.. Selwyn is standing to the left facing right with his right arm on the back of a chair. Williams, known to his friends as "Gilly", sits at a table to the right, torso to the left, face forward, writing on a stack of papers. Edgcumbe sits behind Williams to his right, facing left, with his right hand on the paper Williams is writing on. Rectangle. Below the title it reads: "From the Strawberry Hill picture now (1857) in the possession of the Right Hon.ble Henry LaBouchere."
Illustration from Otto Trevelyan, The American Revolution (call no. 973.31 T812, 1909).
The Joshua Danforth Bush, Jr. Collection.

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