Watercolor drawing of one of four panels, formerly the doors to a shrine in the abbey of St. Edmundsbury, that were kept by Horace Walpole in the Chapel at Strawberry Hill. This panel shows Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, whole-length directed to the right, bald, wearing a fur trimmed robe, kneeling with his hands clasped in prayer. A man stands over him on the left; trees and buildings are visible in the background
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 227 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 1391-1447, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Drawing of the interior of the printing house at Strawberry Hill. Two rooms are visible; the room on the left, which occupies most of the drawing, is lined with windows on the back and left walls and has a fireplace on the right wall. A man stands at a composing frame at the back of the room setting type from the copy propped on the upper case; lower tables line the walls in front of the windows at left, and other furniture occupies the back right corner of the room. In the foreground the doorway on the right gives a partial view of the second room containing two printing presses. A man can be seen working the common press for printing the letterpress text; to the left are two of the handles of the star-wheel of a rolling press for printing intaglio plates (copper plates); above, sheets of printed paper have been hung to dry on lines strung across the room. The floors and ceilings of both rooms are plain and undecorated; a few framed pictures hang on the walls
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 240 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., Printer's ornament (19 x 112 mm) mounted below drawing., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Estates, Outbuildings, Printing industry, and Printing presses
Watercolor drawing of one of four panels, formerly the doors to a shrine in the abbey of St. Edmundsbury, that were kept by Horace Walpole in the Chapel at Strawberry Hill. This panel shows John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury, whole-length, turned and looking to right, standing in bishop's robes and carrying a mitre in his right hand and an open book in his left. He stands in front of a landscape with trees and path leading into distance; a house is visible in the backround on the right
Alternative Title:
John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 226 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Kemp, John, approximately 1380-1454, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait, half length, to the right, looking at viewer; wearing embroidered doublet, cloak over left shoulder, and ruff, with moustache and short curled hair, one hand on hip; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., "Vol. 1, p. 152"--Upper right corner., Engraved after a self-portrait miniature by Oliver that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 136 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., 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on wove paper ; sheet 17.3 x 13.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Drawing of a small head in basalt of Jupiter Serapis wearing the modius, a flat-topped cylindrical headdress or crown. This small statue was purchased by Sir William Hamilton from the Barberini Collection at Rome, was later sold to the Duchess of Portland, and was then bought by Horace Walpole upon her death. It was kept in either the Beauclerk Closet or the Round Room at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 157 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Serapis (Egyptian deity),
Title written in pencil at bottom of the image., Drawing has been squared for transfer., and Possibly a preparatory drawing for Edward Edward's "Library at Strawberry Hill", The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"The marriage of Henry VI, the king in an embroidered robe with a halo about his head standing to the left holding the hand of his bride, Margaret of Anjou dressed in a long gown and cloak, a tiara on her head, a bishop officiating at the ceremony binding the couple's hands, male nobles and attendants standing behind the king and female maids standing behind the princess, Westminster Abbey beyond with statues of kings and saints, an arch supported by two columns to the foreground acting as a border."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marriage of Henry VI and Marriage of Henry the Sixth
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Engraved after the painting hung by Horace Walpole over the chimney in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 76 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., 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 15.4 x 13.3 cm, and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Henry VI, King of England, 1421-1471,, Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"The marriage of Henry VI, the king in an embroidered robe with a halo about his head standing to the left holding the hand of his bride, Margaret of Anjou dressed in a long gown and cloak, a tiara on her head, a bishop officiating at the ceremony binding the couple's hands, male nobles and attendants standing behind the king and female maids standing behind the princess, Westminster Abbey beyond with statues of kings and saints, an arch supported by two columns to the foreground acting as a border."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marriage of Henry VI and Marriage of Henry the Sixth
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Engraved after the painting hung by Horace Walpole over the chimney in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 101 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 14.2 x 11.5 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Henry VI, King of England, 1421-1471,, Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"The marriage of Henry VII, the crowned king in his ermine-lined robes of state over a heraldric tabard holding his sceptre and accompanied by the bishop to the right and Elizabeth of York in an embroidered floral gown accompanied by a bearded priest in long robes to the left, the ornamented arches of the cathedral above them and the interior view stretching away into the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marriage of Henry VII and Marriage of Henry the Seventh
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Engraved after the painting hung by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 137 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 14.3 x 17.2 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509,, Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Henry VII, King of England, 1465-1503,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)