Page 121.11. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
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Titles from notes in ink below images, in Horace Walpole's hand., Unsigned; attributed to Horace Walpole by curator., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., Two small drawings on one sheet, side by side. The leftmost drawing, which shows the earlier iteration of the house, includes labels in Walpole's hand: Mrs. Chenevix's library ; East bed ch. ; East parlour ; staircase ; closet ; kitchen., and Mounted on page 121.11 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.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Opposite page 1. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
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A view of the east front of Strawberry Hill, looking from the Thames. A gentleman and lady converse on the left. On the right a workman tends the lawn with a scythe
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Title engraved below image., Publisher and date of publication from contemporary manuscript note "From The weekly miscellany no. 11, 1772, very inaccurately taken" in upper margin. The weekly miscellany was a continuation, from 1773 onward, of: An appendix to the Sherborne mercury, or, The weekly magazine. [Sherborne] : [R. Goadby], 1772-., Plate from: An appendix to the Sherborne mercury, or, The weekly magazine. [Sherborne] : [R. Goadby], 1772., A later state of the plate, with volume number added in upper left, was published in: New display of the beauties of England. London : R. Goadby, 1773., Sheet trimmed to / within plate mark., "P. 22"--Above image in upper right., Cf. Gascoigne, B. Images of Twickenham. Richmond-upon-Thames : Saint Helena Press, 1981, 254., Mounted opposite page 1 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., and Inlaid to 27 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
R. Goadby
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
First leaf following title page. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
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"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)