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10. Lord Southampton's Lodge, at Highgate, Middlesex [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [12 September 1792]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 L847 750
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 48. London and its environs about 1750.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View of large house from surrounding fields; a couple with a dog stands in foreground looking towards lodge to the right, sheep in field on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Third in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "3" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 39 cm., and Leaf 48 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
- Publisher:
- Published 12th Septr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Highgate (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Southampton, Charles Fitzroy, Baron, 1737-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Estates, Dwellings, and Sheep
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lord Southampton's Lodge, at Highgate, Middlesex [graphic].
11. Sir Charles Asgill's villa, with a view of the bridge, at Richmond, Surrey [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [12 September 1792]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 L847 750
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 60. London and its environs about 1750.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View of the villa with house to the left, the river to the right with bridge in the back; a cart in the river collecting water, two figures talking in the left, looking towards the river."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Eleventh in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 60 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd 12th Septr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Richmond (London, England), Richmond Bridge (Richmond upon Thames, London, England),, England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Asgill, Charles, Sir, 1762-1823
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Rivers, Bridges, Dwellings, and Carts & wagons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sir Charles Asgill's villa, with a view of the bridge, at Richmond, Surrey [graphic].
12. The Earl of Mansfields, at Caen Wood, near Hampstead, Middlesex [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [12 September 1792]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 L847 750
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 49. London and its environs about 1750.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View of the grand house at Kenwood with walled garden, seen from the passing road; three figures on horseback riding by, a couple walking to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., "The design is attributed to [Jefferyes Hamett] O'Neale on stylistic grounds; the lively spotted dog is typical of his work"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.5592., Fourth in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "4" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 49 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
- Publisher:
- Published 12th Septr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Hampstead (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 and Kenwood House (Hampstead, London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Estates, Dwellings, Garden walls, Horseback riding, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Earl of Mansfields, at Caen Wood, near Hampstead, Middlesex [graphic].
13. The Lake House, belonging to Sr. James Tilney Long, on the Ilford Road, Essex [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [12 September 1792]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 L847 750
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 57. London and its environs about 1750.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View of the mansion from across the lake, a couple in the foreground to the left looking at the house, a dog sniffing the grass near them."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Lake House, belonging to Sir James Tilney Long, on the Ilford Road, Essex
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Tenth in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "10" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 57 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
- Publisher:
- Published 12th Septr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Essex (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Tylney-Long, James, Sir, 1736-1794 and Wanstead House (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Estates, Dwellings, and Lakes & ponds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Lake House, belonging to Sr. James Tilney Long, on the Ilford Road, Essex [graphic].
14. The elegant villa of the late Gregory Bateman Esqr. at Kentish Town, Middlesex [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [12 September 1792]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 L847 750
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 46. London and its environs about 1750.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View of the villa, with Ionic portico at entrance; a fence surrounding grounds; in foreground a carriage passes on road."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., First in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; at top is the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "1" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 46 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
- Publisher:
- Published 12th Septr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Kentish Town (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Estates, Dwellings, Porticoes (Porches), Fences, and Carriages & coaches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The elegant villa of the late Gregory Bateman Esqr. at Kentish Town, Middlesex [graphic].
15. The western prospect of Bears-Den Hall in Co. Surrey [graphic].
- Creator:
- Reisen, Charles Christian, 1680-1725, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1720]
- Call Number:
- 720.00.00.107
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of a house supposedly near Putney Common, satirically called 'Bear's Den Hall', a rickety house with cracked plaster walls and a chimney-stack with broken brick, and with weeds growing from the cracks and on the roof. A key at the top references many of the features of the scene, including a bear is chained by the front door (B) at the left, birds in flight (K). The property is separated from the road in the foreground by a wicket fence, with a satircial armorial crest along the lower edge with portraits of Charles Christian and Skelton and "Satire on social pretensions: a view of a dilapidated cottage set into a garden behind a wooden fence, with a Greek inscription and mock coat-of-arms at the bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched at top of image., Printmaker identified as Charles Christian Reisen in the British Museum online catalogue. An alternative attribution to George Vertue derives from a contemporary marginal note on an impression in the Royal Collection (RCIN 701972)., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Charles Christian the engraver and Humphrey Skelton the upholsterer, notorious for their bad tempers lived, perhaps together, in the house, which acquired the name Bear's Den Hall by virtue of their eccentricities., and Titled 'W. prospect of Bears Den Hall, in the county of Surrey.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London, and Putney.
- Subject (Name):
- Reisen, Charles Christian, 1680-1725, and Skelton, Humphrey, active 1720s,
- Subject (Topic):
- Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The western prospect of Bears-Den Hall in Co. Surrey [graphic].
16. [Drawings of castles and scenes in England and Wales] [art original].
- Creator:
- DeWint, Peter, 1784-1849, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1829 and 1835]
- Call Number:
- 75 D521 829
- Image Count:
- 12
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A series of eight, small watercolor drawings depicting castles and country houses in England and Wales. The views show: Brancepeth Castle near Durham; Enville Hall in Staffordshire; New Weir on the river Wye, Herefordshire; Hagley Hall, Worcestershire; Hereford Cathedral from across the river Wye; St Paul’s Walden Bury, Hertfordshire; Lumley Castle near Durham; and Chirk Castle near Wrexham, north Wales
- Alternative Title:
- Drawings by De Wint
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Peter DeWint., Date based on DeWint's visits to Wales between 1829 and 1835. See Oxford dictionary of national biography., Drawings are mounted an album of thirty-four unnumbered blank leaves; each drawing is captioned by the artist below in ink, some are numbered in pencil. Bound in nineteenth-century half black roan over marbled boards with the spine lettered in gilt ‘Drawings by De Wint’; marbled endpapers and edges; old bookseller’s description pasted at foot of first page., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Wales
- Subject (Topic):
- Cathedrals, Dwellings, Estates, and Castles & palaces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings of castles and scenes in England and Wales] [art original].
17. [Strawberry-Hill] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Wollaston, Charlton, 1733-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1754.
- Call Number:
- 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- 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)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Estates, and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Strawberry-Hill] [graphic]