Plate [124] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; bearded figure sat at foot of monument with six portrait medallions including Shaftesbury, Ormond and Vane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [124] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683,, Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688,, and Vane, Henry, Sir, 1613-1662,
Figure of Moses, on a pedestal in a niche; sitting, looking away to right, right hand twined in his long beared with the wrist resting on a book propped beside him. On the pedestal are three lines of text beginning: Moysis ingens ex marmore simulacrum ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker, place of production, and date range for production from the Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue, museum no.: DYCE.1169., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom right., and Mounted on page 124 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.
Laurence Sterne stands on the left facing Death who has just come in the door (right) carrying an hourglass and carrying a walking stick. On the wall behind him is a map of the fortifications of Namur and on the table by his side, a statue of Diana of the Ephesians under a glass dome (bell glass) as well as a feather pen in an ink stand. Below the table is a jackboot. Between the two columns of verse below the image in a cartouche is a butterfly fluttering over a torch, a reference to the soul
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Date from manuscript note in Horace Walpole's hand., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., Five lines from Tristam Shandy below image in English and Italian, etched below image: and when Death himself knocked at my door, ye had him come again, and in so gay a tone, of careless indifference, did ye doit, that he, doubted of his commission. There must certainly be some mistake in thy matter, quoth he ..., In lower left corner: Price half-crown., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Aristotle's works -- Ovid -- A sentimental journey by Laurence Sterne -- Emblems: mundane egg -- Reference to plagiary -- Machine for tearing books., and Annotated by Horace Walpole below plate line: Sterne, author of Tristam Shandy, done at Florence.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 and Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Death, Hourglasses, Skeletons, and Staffs (Sticks)
Two watercolor drawings, one depicting a skate and the other depicting a hermit crab in a shell
Alternative Title:
Crab
Description:
Titles from local catalog card., Each drawing signed in pencil in lower left corner with the artist's initials; top drawing is mounted upside down, causing the initials to appear inverted in upper right., Place of production based on artist's countries of residence in Europe; date of production based on artist's death date., Formerly on page 29 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Title devised by cataloger., Designed by Richard Bentley in 1757 and probably engraved by Grignion. See Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, page xxv., Sheet trimmed., and Mounted on page 3.
Publisher:
Horace Walpole
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England),
End flyleaf. Miscellanies historical and phililogical.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attributed to Horace Walpole in local card catalog record., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., and Drawn on end flyleaf in Horace Walpole's copy of Miscellanies historical and phililogical.
Title page. Account of Russia as it was in the year 1710.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill estate as viewed from the east, with the house in the middle distance surrounded by trees. A lawn stretches towards the viewer in the foreground; a cloud-filled sky is above
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on depiction of the Round Tower of the house, which was not completed until 1762., With printed (letterpress?) text "Strawberry-Hill 17[blank]" below image, with the digits "58" written in brown ink to complete the date., and Mounted as lower half of title page in a copy of: Whitworth, C. An account of Russia as it was in the year 1710. Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
Watercolor drawing of the front of Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham, as viewed from the north. The large white house can be seen in the middle distance, a blue turret roof capped with a weather vane rising above the crenellated walls. A brick wall, the top of which is covered with ivy, separates the house from the road in the foreground. A man walks on the road toward the house; the back wheels of a carriage can be seen further down the road, the front end having disappeared around a corner to the right. Tall trees with green foliage frame the right and left sides of the image; a blue sky is seen above
Alternative Title:
North view of Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner., Mounted on page 15 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 (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings