SH Contents W218 no. 1 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 50
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Horace Walpole's watercolor of an amorous young couple. Formerly hung in the Red Bedchamber in Strawberry Hill
Description:
Dated and signed with Walpole's initials "H.W. 1737" in lower left of image., After Watteau., Verso frame, label: The Moyer Gallery, Paul W. Cooley., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A pleasing drawing, in body colour, from a subject of Watteau's, 1737, by Horace Walpole.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721
SH Contents W218 no. 2 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 52
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Horace Walpole's watercolor after Antoine Watteau's Fête Champêtre depicts two amorous couples being serenaded by a musician. Another young man lounges on a blanket, his back to the viewer, as he gazes at the one dancing couple. Another figure of a man peeps out from behind a tree. They sit in a grove of trees, a small pool at the edge, as sheep graze in the distance; the towers from a town can be seen on the horizon
Alternative Title:
Fête champêtre
Description:
Title devised by curator., Label verso: A Fete Champetre after Watteau by Horace Walpole From Earl Waldegrave's Collection Signed and dated 1738. Also manuscript notes in unknown hand regarding provenance of watercolor., Dated and signed "H. Walpole 1737" in lower left of image., and Date assigned by curator after the watercolor by Watteau of which this work is based.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721
Page 121.21. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title of drawing on the left supplied by cataloger; title of drawing on the right from note in ink below image, 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 side-by-side on one sheet, possibly sketches of the China-Room at Strawberry Hill. The drawing on the left, a square design that might be a floor plan, has written above it the word "Dairy"(?) beneath the scored through words "China Room"; the annotation "Door Etruscan" is to the right of the image, between the two drawings. The drawing on the right, titled below, has additional design notes written above and below image: Grotesque ceiling from Herculaneum ; white tyles ; Etruscan border black & yellow orange ; shelves black & orange ; [...?] Etruscan ; Etruscan floor., and Mounted on page 121.21 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)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Floor plans, Windows, and Shelving