- Published / Created:
- [not before 1769]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, after page xxxii. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of Horace Walpole's villa Strawberry Hill from the south across the lawn with the Thames in the distance on the right. In the foreground a man leads two woman and a child along with their two dogs across the lawn, gesturing with his arm to the right. Another man walks toward the river
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified. Another watercolor of the same view has been attributed to Moses Griffith; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Views G853 no. 1., Probably after a 1769 drawing by Paul Sandby; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3485 (12) no. 2., Formerly mounted to another backing, now removed, leaving only traces of manuscript note on verso: South vie[w] ... the Hon. [H?] ..., Mounted after page xxxii (leaf numbered '33' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men., and Temporary local subject terms: Domestic architecture.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, structures, etc, Homes and haunts, and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [South front of Strawberry Hill] [art original].
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