- Published / Created:
- [between 1770 and 1800?]
- Call Number:
- SH Views Un58 no. 8 Box 125
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the avenue in front of Strawberry Hill, looking through the arch of trees overhead, towards the Thames. A gentleman assists a lady as she steps over the stile into the road. On the left two workmen walk away, one with a scythe over his shoulder, the other with a walking stick and bedroll (?) over his shoulder
- Alternative Title:
- View down the avenue at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham
- Description:
- Title from inscription below image. and Artist unidentified.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view down the avenue at Strawberry-Hill, Twickenham [art original].
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- Creator:
- Walpole, Mary, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1746]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents W220 no. 1 Box 120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A busy scene in a farm yard. In the left foreground a woman (Aestas?) sits on a rock, while at her feet a woman spoons soup from a large bowl. She leans toward the boy at her side who holds a full soup bowl in his hands. To her left a young man approaches with two fowl hanging from the pole over his shoulder. Sheep mull about in the center foreground while on the right an old man sheers a sheep held by another young boy. In the background a man cuts rushes (?) which are loaded into a cart (with ox). In the left background stands a hut in front of which a group of men work at thatching a roof
- Description:
- Title written in brown ink above image, some letters very faint: Æstas., Signed in the lower right corner: Mary Walpole fecit., Upper left corner scortched with some loss at the margin., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Carts & wagons, Farms, Goddesses, Sheep, Sheep shearing, Thatched roofs, and Threshing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Aestas [art original] / Mary Walpole fecit
- 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 one side of an ivory comb that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill. Rows of teeth run along the upper and lower edges on the comb; a decorative motif runs along the right and left edges. In the center of the comb, between the rows of teeth, are depictions of two scenes. On the left, a figure sits in the bath holding a flower while another figure pours water into the bath from a pitcher; the sun shines above. On the right, a figure stands in front of a bed
- Alternative Title:
- Ancient ivory comb, size of the original
- 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 118 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 (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Combs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An antient ivory comb, size of the original [art original].
- Creator:
- Bannerman, Alexander, approximately 1730- printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1762]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Anthony van Dyck, bust directed to the right, head slightly turned to face the viewer; within oval frame with cartouche at the bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Antony van Dyck and Anthony van Dyck
- Description:
- Title from text in image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Text below image: From an original in the collection of the Honble. Mr. Walpole., "Vol. 2, 87"--Upper right corner., Engraved after a self-portrait by van Dyck that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 150 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., 1 print : engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 18.1 x 12.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Strawberry Hill Press
- Subject (Name):
- Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Antony Vandyck [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the grounds of Strawberry Hill, the villa only partially visible through a gap in the trees. In the foreground stands the obelisk on a knoll, behind and to the right of which is the cottage with sheep in front. At left, cows graze on the lawn in front of the villa, and behind them a man and a woman walk on a path towards the house. On the far right another man walks along the road
- Description:
- Titled in Thomas Kirgate's hand below image on mounting page., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., and Mounted on page 10 (formerly I) 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),
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Approach to Strawberry-Hill [art original].
- Creator:
- Essex, James, 1722-1784, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1778]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Wash drawing depicting one face of a bridge spanning a stream, with a depiction of the bridge's footprint drawn below. A scale bar is present at the bottom
- Description:
- Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Attribution to James Essex from annotation in Horace Walpole's hand on verso: Design for the face of a bridge over the rivulet at Twickenham which runs by Mr. Walpole's flower-garden and crosses the road between that and Mr. Briscoe's garden. Drawn by Mr. Essex., Date of production from local catalog card., Annotated in a later hand on verso: N. the back woud. run[?] to the angle of Mr. Briscoe's pole & the front woud. look sideways towards Mr. Walpole's garden, so as to be seen from the window of the Great Bedchamber., and Mounted on page 3 (formerly B) 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)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Bridges
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bridge over Cross-Deep in the approach to Strawberry-Hill [art original].
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1781]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of the inside of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. Small paintings hang on the walls; figurines, small statues, and urns fill the niches in the walls. The rosewood cabinet, in which Horace Walpole kept enamels and miniatures, is mounted on the wall near the center of the image. Two stools with red cloth occupy the corners. A domed ceiling with a yellow star at its center is seen above; the carpet below mirrors the ceiling in having a large yellow star among its ornamentation
- Description:
- Title written on mount below image., Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount., and Mounted on page 126 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)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Interiors, Galleries (Display spaces)., Cabinets (Case furniture)., Sculpture, and Urns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cabinet at Strawberry Hill [art original]
- 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:
- Wash drawing of the small bronze bust of the Roman emperor Caligula, with silver eyes, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The bust was unearthed in Herculaneum and was sent to Walpole after being purchased by Sir Horace Mann in Florence
- Alternative Title:
- All bronze except the pedestal. The eyes are silver
- Description:
- Title from block letter inscription on pedestal in image; alternative 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 180 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 (Name):
- Caligula, Emperor of Rome, 12-41. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Caligula [art original].
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Published / Created:
- MDCCLX [1760]
- Call Number:
- 33 8 Copy 1
- Image Count:
- 15
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Place and publisher from Hazen., Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of Strawberry Hill Press, copy 4 (p. 51-52)., and Untrimmed copy, bound in red morocco.
- Publisher:
- Strawberry Hill Press
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections and Art
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein-Chamber, at Strawberry-Hill
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1762]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Charles Christian Reisen, standing half-length to the left, with gown across his right arm, holdign seal in his right hand; wearing plain coat with slit in sleeves and long curled wig."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Engraved after a portrait by J. Vanderbank. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., "Vol. 4, p. 27."--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 194 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; sheet 16.6 x 12.4 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of volume and page numbering from top edge.
- Publisher:
- Strawberry Hill Press
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Charles Christian Reisen [graphic]