A drawing showing the plan and elevation for Sir Thomas Seabright's farmhouse Beechwood in Herfordshire which was never executed according to Horace Walpole's note. Includes notes on heights and floorplan with rooms indicated in the artist's hand and note at the bottom of the drawing, "... where the pricked line is: must be thrown a strong arch, to Support the Angle made betweem the two tow'rs."
Alternative Title:
Design (not executed) of a farmhouse for Sir Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertforshire
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink written on mount below drawing., Date based on creation date of Horace Walpole's album. One of two drawings for the farmhouse included in the album., Watermark: IV., and Formerly mounted on leaf 53 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Title written in ink in unknown hand below image., After 1790 when the offices were built., Pencil notation on verso: "No. B"., Note on verso, in unknown, contemporary hand, "doubtless by Barrow. Orig. drawing for aquatint. Cf. Bedford copy of Description Str. Hill, Woolaston print 1754 (no.19).", Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Unknown artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
A drawing showing the side elevation for Sir Thomas Seabright's farmhouse Beechwood in Herfordshire which was never executed according to Horace Walpole's note on the other drawing included in the album for this project
Alternative Title:
Design (not executed) of a farmhouse for Sir Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertforshire
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on creation date of Horace Walpole's album. One of two drawings for the farmhouse included in the album., Watermark (partial) left edge, in the middle of the sheet: top of crest., and Formerly mounted on leaf 54 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
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.