- 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 small oratory present just inside the great north gate at Strawberry Hill. Two of the three arched windows are seen; the window on the far right is enclosed with iron rails. At left is the altar on which a saint in bronze stands
- 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 29 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):
- England and Twickenham.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Oratories, Interiors, Windows, Altars, and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View in the oratory, looking west [art original].
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- Published / Created:
- [1786]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Plate depicting a statue of Ceres at center (labeled "Fig. 1"), with several medals depicted below (labeled "Fig. 2" and "Fig. 3"). Ceres is represented seated, holding a cup in her left hand and various fruits in her right hand; a bull, the emblem of the power of the Creator, is in her lap. This ancient bronze statue was kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was issued., Plate from: Knight, R.P. An account of the remains of the worship of Priapus ... at Isernia ... in two letters ... London : Printed by T. Spilsbury, 1786., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate VIII"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 119 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.
- Publisher:
- T. Spilsbury
- Subject (Name):
- Ceres (Roman deity) and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical antiquities, Sculpture, and Medals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Ceres seated with a bull in her lap] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1786]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Plate depicting a statue of Ceres at center (labeled "Fig. 1"), with several medals depicted below (labeled "Fig. 2" and "Fig. 3"). Ceres is represented seated, holding a cup in her left hand and various fruits in her right hand; a bull, the emblem of the power of the Creator, is in her lap. This ancient bronze statue was kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was issued., Plate from: Knight, R.P. An account of the remains of the worship of Priapus ... at Isernia ... in two letters ... London : Printed by T. Spilsbury, 1786., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate VIII"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 151 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 crayon manner on wove paper ; sheet 22.5 x 18.5 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- T. Spilsbury
- Subject (Name):
- Ceres (Roman deity) and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical antiquities, Sculpture, and Medals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Ceres seated with a bull in her lap] [graphic].