A drawing by Bentley from across the lawn looking toward Strawberry Hill in the distance, behind trees (right); further on beyond is another estate (left) with smoke coming from a chimney. In the foreground are pools of water and tall grasses
Alternative Title:
View of Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title in artist's hand below image., Date and attribution from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink below image., Watermark in center of sheet, lower half., and Formerly mounted on leaf 8 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
View from the garden at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's estate in Twickenham, with the Thames visible in the middle distance at right. A man on horseback travels the road on the near side of the river; another figure stands by the obelisk at the junction of roads near the center of the image. Mr. Briscoe's house is seen beyond the obelisk; other buildings are faintly visible further down the river in the far distance. Two men, one holding a broom and the other kneeling down next to a basket, work in the field in the foreground
Description:
Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand., Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount: E.E. 1783., and Formerly laid in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
View of Twickenham and the Thames from the lawn of Strawberry Hill, two field hands with an anvil, sharpening their scathes in the left foreground. To the right, a man sits on a bench under the shade of a large tree. A carriage passes on the road
Alternative Title:
View of Twickenham from the lawn at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title, artist's name, and year inscribed on the verso by Horace Walpole.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England) in art.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A view of the cottage from the garden at Strawberry Hill shows a worker pushing a wheelbarrow on the right with other workers in the distance on the left. In the distance, beyond the grove of trees the viewed sees the Thames and Richmond Hill in the distance
Alternative Title:
View of the cottage at Strawberry Hill from the west
Description:
Inscribed by Horace Walpole on verso with the artist's name, title, and date.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Dwellings, Estates, and Outbuildings
View of the north side of the house at Strawberry Hill, looking towards the screen leading into the Prior's garden. The exterior walls of the house rise above on the left; in the middle distance a man stands within the doorway to the garden, the open door behind him. The courtyard wall and door leading to the road are seen at right
Alternative Title:
View of the north side of the house, with the screen leading into the Prior's garden
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 20 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Gardens
A drawing of the room at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa that connected the Gallery with the Holbein Chamber. An arched passageway dominates the right side of the image, thorough which the edge of a canopy bed and a chair are visible. Beyond this furniture is another arched passageway leading into the Holbein Chamber, with the chimneypiece and its surroundings plainly visible. The long and narrow connecting room makes up the foreground, its walls and ceiling decorated with the simple motif of parallel lines periodically intersecting to create a lattice. A stained glass window is seen at the far end of the room, on the left edge of the image
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 133 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Dwellings, Interiors, Chimneypieces, Furniture, Windows, and Stained glass
Drawing of part of the grounds of Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with the shell bench designed by Richard Bentley in the distance on the right and a wooden bridge over a stream on the left. A hedgerow and a wooden gate are present in the foreground, and along with a wooden fence in front of the shell bench these enclose a rectangular lawn. Trees are seen in the background and along the left side of the image
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in brown ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand. and Mounted on page 177 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
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
Drawing of the ornate chalice kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The side of the cup has several rectangular jewels inlaid around the image of an angel; the cover is decorated with images of animals and is topped with a female figure holding a flag
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 181 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.