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1. A description of Strawberry Hill [art original]
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1781]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawn frontispiece to A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... at Strawberry-Hill ... . A structure of Gothic design is depicted, with the abridged title of the book at its center. Alcoves in the structure hold statues on either side of title; the statue on the right is a knight in armor. The Walpole family crest is drawn in gold below the title and the Walpole motto "Fari quae sentiat" appears within a banner on the ground in front of the structure
- Description:
- Title written in ink and gold paint at center of design., Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount below image., and Mounted on page 9 (formerly H) of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A description of Strawberry Hill [art original]
2. Entrance of the villa at Strawberry Hill [art original]
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1781]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3678.11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Inscription on verso, in ink: "Entrance of the villa at Strawberry Hill. E.E. 1781.", Signed and dated lower right corner of image: "E.E. 1781"., Numbered in pencil on verso: "No. J"., Note in pencil in unknown hand: "The print of this in the Description, 1784 has slight differences: pot with shrub missing, includes more at right, + top. This is surely Edward's original watercolor for the famous print however.", Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Dwellings and Doors & doorways
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Entrance of the villa at Strawberry Hill [art original]
3. From the library window at Strawberry Hill 1783 [art original].
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3678.12+ (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor of the view from the Library at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with horse and carriage in the distance
- Description:
- Inscription in ink, in lower right corner of image: "from the library window at Strawberry hill 1783." The hand that wrote the title is the same hand that wrote the title for "Armour of Francis I". G. Harding?, On the verso of the drawing in pencil: "Drawn by Mr. Edwards, mentioned in one of his letters.", Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and Edwards, Edward (1738-1806), British painter.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > From the library window at Strawberry Hill 1783 [art original].
4. Strawberry Hill Middx [art original]
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1785]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3678.13
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Strawberry Hill Middlesex
- Description:
- Inscription in ink on verso, unknown hand: "Strawberry Hill Middx.", Signature in ink on wash-lined mount: "E.E.", Wash-lined mount framed with gold ink., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London., and This drawing is possibly one of a collection dispersed at the Strawberry Hill Sale, 1842, day viii, lot 154. Chewton Collection of Lord Waldegrave, to W.S. Lewis, 1948.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Dwellings and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Strawberry Hill Middx [art original]
5. The little Gothic castle at Strawberry-Hill, where the story was written [art original].
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1806]
- Call Number:
- 24 17 791P Copy 9
- Collection Title:
- Opposite title page. Castle of Otranto.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of Horace Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill, the white house seen at a distance through a break in the trees. A green lawn extends towards the viewer in the foreground; a blue sky is visible above
- Description:
- Title from note in pencil at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Unsigned; questionable attribution to Edward Edwards from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., Drawn in the center of a proof state of the engraved frontispiece to: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]., and Bound in opposite title page in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The little Gothic castle at Strawberry-Hill, where the story was written [art original].
6. [East view of Strawberry Hill] [art original]
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1785]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3678.10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title assigned by curator., Signed lower right: "E.E." [i.e. Edward Edwards]., Image on contemporary mount with wash lines and gold ink., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [East view of Strawberry Hill] [art original]
7. [Two designs for a cabinet at Strawberry Hill] [art original]
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two drawings, matted side-by-side, of female figures wearing classical dress (Doric chitons). The figure on the left faces right and holds up one side of a scale (?) with her left hand; the figure on the right, breasts exposed and right arm extended into the air, faces left
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Signed with initials by the artist in pencil, in lower right corner of the drawing on the right., Date of production supplied by curator., and Formerly laid in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Two designs for a cabinet at Strawberry Hill] [art original]
8. [Two designs for a cabinet at Strawberry Hill] [art original]
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two drawings, matted side-by-side, of female figures wearing classical dress (Doric chitons). The figure on the left faces right and holds up one side of a scale (?) with her left hand; the figure on the right, breasts exposed and right arm extended into the air, faces left
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Signed with initials by the artist in pencil, in lower right corner of the drawing on the right., Date of production supplied by curator., and Formerly laid in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Two designs for a cabinet at Strawberry Hill] [art original]