Drawing of Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill in Twickenham from the view in the southeast
Alternative Title:
East view of Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex
Description:
Title inscribed by artist below image; signed and dated by the artist lower right of image., On verso in contemporary hand: Strawberry Hill en Middlesex maison de campagne de Mr. Horace Walpole. Added in pencil is a note (in French) giving biographical information on Walpole and noting that this drawing was likely to have been intended as a print, citing the presence of pinpricks that outline some of the buildings., and Johann Heinrich (or John Henry) Müntz (1727-1798), painter and architect, engaged by Walpole to paint at Strawberry Hill . He created a series of topographical drawings and copied old masters, but relations were broken off in late 1759 after a quarrel.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Houses
A view of the Thames River with Richmond Hill in the distance. In the right foreground, a row boat pulls away from shore with a rower and his female passenger. A party of two women and a man are left on shore; behind them a man and woman talk over the fence that separates a grove of trees from the shoreline. Further down the river a boat sails away from the viewer
Alternative Title:
View of Richmond Hill from Twickenham
Description:
Title written in ink below image in Horace Walpole's hand., Strasburg lily watermark., and On verso, in Thomas Kirgate's hand: "H. Walpole". Also with a pressmark[?]: E895.
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond upon Thames (London, England) and Thames River (England)
A view of the Thames River with Richmond Hill in the distance as seen from the terrace of Lady Ferrars at Twickenham. In the foreground on the lawn a man leads a horse that has a rider on its back. On the river two men maneuver a punt boat on the left while on the right on the shore a man leads a team of three horses that pull a rope attached to a sail boat on the river
Alternative Title:
View of Richmond Hill, taken from the terrace of Lady Ferrars at Twickenham
Description:
Title, artist, and date written in ink on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., On verso in lower right corner, in Thomas Kirgate's hand: H. Walpole. Also pressmark[?]: "E.50.", and Partial visbile watermark: "C Blauw".
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond upon Thames (London, England) and Twickenham (London, England)
A view of Twickenham from across the river Thames. A single row boat is shown on the river. Mr. Horn's house is on the left on Eel Pie Island, and on the right, in the distance, is Ham House
Description:
Title inscribed in ink on verso in an unidentified hand. and Attributed to Müntz.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
A view of the grounds and river, with houses seen through trees at a distance, of two properties in Twickenham. On the river are three rowboats, the nearest of which contains two fisherman, one pulling up a net. On either side of the shore is a large grove of trees
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., On verso, in lower right corner, in Thomas Kirgate's hand: H. Walpole., Also on the verso, in graphite, in an 18th century hand "finished Oct. 5, 1757"; also in lower right, pressmark[?}: "E.51.", and Watermark visible in center of sheet: C. Blauw.