- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1800]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
- Collection Title:
- Page 4a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of one of the chairs, designed in a Gothic style by Richard Bentley and Horace Walpole, that were in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., and Inlaid on page 4a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Chairs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Gothic chair [art original]
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- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1810]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
- Collection Title:
- Page 42a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of one of two small Welsh armchairs kept by Horace Walpole in the Star Chamber at Strawberry Hill. The support posts of the chair are painted with alternating blue and white bands; the triangular seat has a cushion of blue-gray point lace. Centered within the backrest are the yellow and black arms of Mr. Richard Bateman
- Alternative Title:
- Welsh armed chair
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Inlaid on page 42a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Chairs, and Coats of arms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Welch armed chair [art original].
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1810]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
- Collection Title:
- Page 42b. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of a triangular chair that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Star Chamber at Strawberry Hill. The chair has one leg at each corner of its triangular seat, with the leg at the rear extending upward and being topped with a curved piece that forms a simple backrest
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Inlaid on page 42b in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections and Chairs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Triangular chair [art original].
- Creator:
- Bell, E., artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1842]
- Call Number:
- 485 842 C76 V Copy 7
- Collection Title:
- Page 393. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of the 16th-century oak chair from Glastonbury Abbey, an item from Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill that was sold at auction in 1842
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Page reference, lot number, and statement of responsibility written in ink below image. Artist "E.B." identified as E. Bell in local card catalog record., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, in which this drawing is found as an illustration., and Drawn in the right margin of page 393 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Chairs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A very ancient chair of oak] see p. 176, lot 75 / [art original]
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1810]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
- Collection Title:
- Page 46a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of a chair, possibly the "chair covered with purple cloth" that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein at Strawberry Hill. The purple cushion, with two tassels hanging from the front, sits in a simple wood frame; the arms and back of the chair are upholstered in the same purple fabric secured at the edges with furniture nails
- Description:
- Title from local catalog card., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Inlaid on page 46a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Chairs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Chair with cushioned seat] [art original].
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1824]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing showing three chairs kept by Horace Walpole in the Star Chamber at Strawberry Hill. At top is depicted a chair with a triangular seat; below are two small Welsh armchairs, blue and white with cushions of point-lace, the one on the right also having the arms of Mr. Richard Bateman on its backrest
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 108 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Chairs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Chairs in the Star Chamber] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1842]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, opposite page 178. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of the finely carved chair, the back ornamented with grotesque heads and the center bearing the date 1601, that was owned by Horace Walpole and sold in lot 117 on the seventeenth day of the 1842 Strawberry Hill Sale
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., At top of sheet is a small (30 x 50 mm) pen and ink drawing showing the details of the coat of arms carved into the backrest of the chair., and Bound in opposite page 178 in volume 2 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Chairs and Coats of arms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Elizabethan arm chair] [art original].
- Creator:
- Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer), artist
- Published / Created:
- [1843]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 161. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The auctioneer George Robins is shown full-length in profile to the left, sitting at a small table draped with a tablecloth, an inkwell and a goblet on the table in front of him. He sits on the 16th-century oak chair from Glastonbury Abbey, an item from Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill that Robins auctioned off in 1842
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Signed with initials and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., and Bound in as page 161 in volume 1 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
- Subject (Name):
- Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Auctioneers, Tables, Chairs, Writing materials, and Drinking vessels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of George Robins sitting at a table] [art original]
- Creator:
- Bell, E., artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1842]
- Call Number:
- 485 842 C76 V Copy 7
- Collection Title:
- Page 65. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The auctioneer George Robins is shown full-length in profile to the left, sitting at a small table draped with a tablecloth, an inkwell and a goblet on the table in front of him. He sits on the 16th-century oak chair from Glastonbury Abbey, an item from Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill that Robins auctioned off in 1842
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Signed in lower left corner with the initials of artist E. Bell., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., Mounted with a clipped facsimile signature of George Robins, a clipping about Robins having "assumed for his throne the very ancient chair of oak once pertaining to Glastonbury Abbey", and another clipping about the chair itself., and Mounted on page 65 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
- Subject (Name):
- Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Auctioneers, Tables, Chairs, Writing materials, and Drinking vessels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of George Robins sitting at a table] [art original]