First leaf following title page. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Landscape; view of Strawberry Hill, a neo-gothic house in parkland, seen from a pool in the foreground, with a water-wheel on the left, a horseman on the far bank, sailing-boat on the right and cattle grazing in the field before the house."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
East front of Strawberry Hill, from the river
Description:
Title from note in brown ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Alternative title from Gascoigne., Printmaker's monogrammatic initials etched below image in lower left; date etched below image in lower right., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on first leaf following title page 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., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 11.3 x 15.7 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and With manuscript title "View of Strawberry Hill" added in brown ink below image. Also added are the letters "ollaston f." to the etched monogrammatic initials "CW" in lower left, completing the statement of responsibility "CWollaston f."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text apart from "[...]ng" in lower left corner and "Stre[...]" in lower right corner., and On leaf 137 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 138 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title and publication date assigned by cataloger., Sheet trimmed at the bottom within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: watermen -- London: Thames River -- London: Westminster Bridge -- Boats -- Boat landings -- Uniforms: watermen's uniforms -- Badges: watermen's badges -- Female costume, 1785 -- Fans -- Military uniforms., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Title from annotation in ink on separate oval strip of paper mounted around portrait., Date of publication based on death date of Richard Bull, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated volume he assembled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 168 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.
An etching that appeared at the head of a broadside with the title 'Rhe Scotch yoke, or, English resentment' and nine verses in letterpress below; a satire on Lord Bute, his Excise scheme and the Treaty of Paris (1762). The image shows Lord Bute, dressed in tartan, seated on top of a pole on a pyre, holding two documents one labeled "Peace" and the other "Excise upon Cyder"; surrounded by a group a cheering people; with engraved speech bubbles
Alternative Title:
English resentment
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and On page 292 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 14.9 x 19.2 cm.
An etching that appeared at the head of a broadside with the title 'Rhe Scotch yoke, or, English resentment' and nine verses in letterpress below; a satire on Lord Bute, his Excise scheme and the Treaty of Paris (1762). The image shows Lord Bute, dressed in tartan, seated on top of a pole on a pyre, holding two documents one labeled "Peace" and the other "Excise upon Cyder"; surrounded by a group a cheering people; with engraved speech bubbles
Alternative Title:
English resentment
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and With Bowditch's annotaions on mount: 33.2 x 45.2 cm.