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 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.
"Portrait of William Esdaile, seated to left on a chair, with head turned to look to front; his left hand resting on his knee, and right arm on a table on which lies a book, holding a print or drawing in his hand; wearing a dark double-breasted tailcoat, breeches, stockings, white neckerchief and frill; border of double line surrounding image; after Sharples."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from annotation on verso., Name of printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0410.319., Place of publication surmised from printmaker's presumed place of activity., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and Annotation on verso: William Esdaile Esqr. of Clapham Common engraved by R Grave.