- Published / Created:
- [not before 1784]
- Call Number:
- SH Views Ed25 no. 4 Box 100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An image of an outbuilding and the printing house at Strawberry Hill. A figure believed to be Thomas Kirgate stands in the road in front of the two buildings holding a large portfolio under his arm
- Description:
- Title written in black ink in unidentified hand below image. and An amateur copy probably after the F. Jukes print of the same title, which was based on Edward Edwards' drawing "Printing-House at Strawberry Hill 1784". The original drawing is held in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- Subject (Name):
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Estates and Outbuildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Farm yard and printing house belonging to Strawberry Hill [art original].
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- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Inside of the printing-house at Strawberry-Hill [art original].
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of the exterior of the offices at Strawberry Hill. The two-story building, with its paired arched windows and crenellated roofline, occupies most of the image. Trees are seen to the right and left of the structure; a green lawn is in the foreground and a cloud-filled sky is above. A man with a book(?) under his arm stands in the middle distance on the extreme right, near the corner of the building
- Alternative Title:
- Northeast view of the new offices 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 255 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):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Estates, and Outbuildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > North east view of the new offices at Strawberry Hill [art original].
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1784]
- Call Number:
- SH Views Ed25 no. 1 Box 100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An image of an outbuilding and the printing house at Strawberry Hill. A figure believed to be Thomas Kirgate stands in the road in front of the two buildings holding a large portfolio under his arm
- Description:
- Title and date written in ink within wash-line mount, in unknown hand., Possibly the drawing used as the model for an engraving by Francis Jukes entitled "Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill" which attributes the drawing to E. Edwards., and Also written in light pencil, lower left edge: "The original drawing." In the same hand, on the right, "M.A. Rooker" [i.e., Michael Angelo Rooker?].
- Subject (Name):
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Estates and Outbuildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Printing-House at Strawberry Hill 1784 [drawing].
- Creator:
- Pars, William, 1742-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1774]
- Call Number:
- SH Views P266 no. 6+ Box 205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the cottage from the garden at Strawberry Hill shows a worker pushing a wheelbarrow on the right with other workers in the distance on the left. In the distance, beyond the grove of trees the viewed sees the Thames and Richmond Hill in the distance
- Alternative Title:
- View of the cottage at Strawberry Hill from the west
- Description:
- Inscribed by Horace Walpole on verso with the artist's name, title, and date.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Twickenham.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Dwellings, Estates, and Outbuildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of the cottage at Strawberry-hill from the west 1774 [art original]
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1790]
- Call Number:
- SH Views Un58 no. 4 Box 125
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unknown artist., and Date based on the construction of the offices in 1790.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Estates and Outbuildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The offices at Strawberry Hill] [art original].