View from the garden at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's estate in Twickenham, with the Thames visible in the middle distance at right. A man on horseback travels the road on the near side of the river; another figure stands by the obelisk at the junction of roads near the center of the image. Mr. Briscoe's house is seen beyond the obelisk; other buildings are faintly visible further down the river in the far distance. Two men, one holding a broom and the other kneeling down next to a basket, work in the field in the foreground
Description:
Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand., Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount: E.E. 1783., and Formerly laid in 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.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A drawing of the room at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa that connected the Gallery with the Holbein Chamber. An arched passageway dominates the right side of the image, thorough which the edge of a canopy bed and a chair are visible. Beyond this furniture is another arched passageway leading into the Holbein Chamber, with the chimneypiece and its surroundings plainly visible. The long and narrow connecting room makes up the foreground, its walls and ceiling decorated with the simple motif of parallel lines periodically intersecting to create a lattice. A stained glass window is seen at the far end of the room, on the left edge of the image
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 133 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, Dwellings, Interiors, Chimneypieces, Furniture, Windows, and Stained glass
A drawing of the staircase and hall at Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Staircase at Strawberryhill
Description:
Title, artist, and date inscribed on verso., Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount: Staircase at Strawberryhill., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 30 with another view of the staircase in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from the volume in which the print was issued., Plate from: Lysons, D. The environs of London. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell), MDCCXCV [1795], v. 3, title page., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 11 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:
Cadell & Davies
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Drawing of the front face of the chapel at Strawberry Hill, with quatrefoils and other Gothic elements present in the design. A scale bar in feet runs along the bottom of the image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to John Chute from local catalog card. A note in W.S. Lewis's hand on mounting page suggests that Thomas Gayfere, the mason who built the chapel, might instead be the artist., Date of production based on John Chute's death date., and Mounted on page 172 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.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
On the recto, a drawing showing the floor plan of the library Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham; with Bentley's notes including dimensions. On the verso, a rough pen and ink sketch of the library bays
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from Horace Walpole correspondence., and Formerly mounted on leaf 39 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Private libraries, and Libraries (Rooms)
On the recto, a drawing showing the floor plan of the library Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham; with Bentley's notes including dimensions. On the verso, a rough pen and ink sketch of the library bays
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from Horace Walpole correspondence., and Formerly mounted on leaf 39 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Private libraries, and Libraries (Rooms)
A preliminary drawing showing the elevation of a design for the screen in the Holbein Chamber at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex, with brattishing over the door added in pencil. One of three designs for the screen included in Walpole's album of Bentley drawings
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Formerly mounted on the verso of leaf 55 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date from J. Harris.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Drawing of a section with half-wall plan for the Tribune at Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Watermark in center of sheet: GR with crown., and One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)