This topographical view of Twickenham on the Thames River features four summer houses of note. At left closet to the foreground is the villa formerly owned by Alexander Pope which was acquired on his death in 1744 by Sir William Stanhope. Stanhope altered the house considerably by this date including the addition of wings seen in this view. The domed structure in the center is Lady Ferrer’s house. To the right and receding into the distance along the river, are the houses of Barnaby Backwell and Poulett Lodge beyond. A game of stool-ball takes place on the lawn of Pope’s Villa and an angler is fishing from the shore. A boat pulls into the boathouse. A barge floats on the river in the foreground. Some swans swim closer to the shore. The artist Samuel Scott lived in Twickenham nearby when he painted this view. It was likely acquired by Walpole directly from the painter and hung above the door in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Date base another version of this painting at the Yale Center for British Art: Samuel Scott, 1701/2-1772, British. Pope's Villa, Twickenham, ca. 1759 (https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1041).
A small audience sitting on benches on a tribune next to the equestrian statue of Cosimo I de' Medici in Piazza della Signoria, watching a military parade of the guards of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Lorena (1765-1790), son of the Empress Maria Theresa of Habsburg and brother of Joseph II. The soldiers, forming an L-shaped cordon and led by four battalion officers, are recognizable by their tricorns and the bayonets. At the center of the square, under the grand building of Palazzo Vecchio, stands a troop of drummers. Figures in the the foreground include a group of cavalrymen bearing a banner and followed by a cart on the right; a lady and gentleman waiting for a landau carriage at center; and a figure, maybe a soldier on look-out, watching the scene in Palazzo Uguccioni's shadow on the left
Description:
Title and artist attribution from dealer's description. and Date based on artist's death date.
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Piazza della Signoria (Florence, Italy), and Palazzo vecchio (Florence, Italy),
Subject (Topic):
Plazas, Equestrian statues, Military parades & ceremonies, Spectators, and Carriages & coaches
LWL Ptg. 104 Framed, on view in Administration Area
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view toward Richmond hill looking over the Thames River. The landscape well-treed. Swans swim in the foreground water. At left a party disembarks from a boat. A couple wait on shore with their dog. Some vessels with sails navigate the river. Buildings stretch across the top of the hill in the distant horizon
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and One of a pair of paintings; the other is entitled: View of Twickenham from Strawberry Hill.
LWL Ptg. 139 Framed, on view in Administration Area
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1
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still image
Abstract:
A view with cloud-filled sky of the south face of Strawberry Hill House with white-washed façade, pinnacles and castellated walls and turrets. The house is situated in a treed landscape with a spacious expanse of lawn in the foreground that extends to the banks of the Thames River on the right. Several houses are visible across the river. A small sailboat is on the water. This is the only known view of the house between the completion of the Library and the Great Parlor in 1754 and the addition of the Long Gallery in 1761. A related view, likely a pair to this one, but from a slightly different angle and with an earlier architectural structure in brick to the left, has turned up in 2021 at auction
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Unsigned by artist.
LWL Ptg. 103 Framed, on view in Administration Area
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A prospect of Twickenham in the distance from the grounds of Strawberry Hill. At middle distance is Mr. Biscoe’s house on the left. Next to it is Lord Radnor’s Chinese style summer house. Some livestock graze in the field and along the river
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., One of a pair of paintings; the other entitled: View of Richmond Hill from Twickenham Strawberry Hill (LWL Ptg. 104)., and In a period gilt frame.
A panoramic view towards St. Paul’s Cathedral includes a low horizon punctuated by Wren church steeples and a large expanse of cloudy sky. Fashionable figures stroll on the terrace of Somerset house while the river bustles with boats
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and In the manner of Antonio Joli and formerly attributed to both him and Samual Scott.
Title devised by curator., Questionable date of publication assigned by cataloger., After a painting by Domenichino that was in the gallery at Houghton., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., and Mounted on page 120 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.