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1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title of top drawing from note in Horace Walpole's hand written beside it; title of bottom drawing supplied by curator., Unsigned; attributed to Horace Walpole by curator., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., Two small drawings on one sheet, positioned above and below twelve lines of manuscript in Horace Walpole's hand beginning: Sir Jeffery Burwell's mother was daughter & heiress of Jeffery Pitman ..., and Mounted on page 121.5 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Horace Walpole's sketch of Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massareene, whom he met in Paris several times in November 1765 and January 1766. He is caricatured here holding a bouquet of flowers, walking on his toes
Alternative Title:
Caricature of Lord Massareene
Description:
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), author, politician, and patron of the arts., Title from item; unsigned., and Date based on similar drawing by Walpole in The Lewis Walpole Library: Caricature of an unknown woman
Horace Walpole's sketch of the head of an unknown woman in black ink which has been drawn on the verso of a playing card, the nine of hearts in red ink
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Horace Walpole (1717-1797), author, politician, and patron of the arts., and Date based on similar drawing "Lord Massareene" in The Lewis Walpole Library.
A drawing of the heads of three men and one woman. In the upper left is the head of a bearded man, facing left in profile, with identification in Greek letters written below and dated above on the left edge "May 29th". In the upper right is the head of a woman, looking downward and turned slightly right and dated "30th". The bottom two heads are men in profile looking left, the one on the right is bearded and the one on the left clean-shaven; the dates "June 1st" and "1st" are written to the left and right
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Statement of responsibility written in ink at bottom of sheet., With pencil annotation "1732" in a later hand at top of sheet., and Bound in after page 128 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A catalogue of engravers ... Strawberry Hill, 1765.