An image of an outbuilding and the printing house at Strawberry Hill. A figure believed to be Thomas Kirgate stands in the road in front of the two buildings holding a large portfolio under his arm
Description:
Title written in black ink in unidentified hand below image. and An amateur copy probably after the F. Jukes print of the same title, which was based on Edward Edwards' drawing "Printing-House at Strawberry Hill 1784". The original drawing is held in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1799]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 19 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A mother dressed in a poke bonnet and long loose-fitting white dress holds the hand of her young daughter who wears a blue sash and feather plumed hat. The child says "Mamma I want some money to buy cakes" while her mother responds "How can you be so vulgar child, have not I told you a hundred times I never wear pockets!"
Description:
Signed by the artist; title from caption in the artist's hand., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
A design for a vignette by Bentley showing six older women on a balcony reaching out or looking in horror over the wall (draped in an embroidered cloth) at a scene below. With pencilled in design above
Alternative Title:
Sketch for the tailpiece of the Long story
Description:
Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the mount in his portfolio of drawings assembled under the title Drawings and designs, ca. 1760., Added title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: Sketch for the tailpiece of The long story., Date based on publication date of Gray's work: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 3 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Drawing of an inside wall of St. Albans Cathedral that includes a detailed depiction of an arched double door and the outline of a window above it. A horizontal row of trefoils separates the door from the window; an alcove with an empty pedestal is seen on either side of the door. The ornate doors are decorated with Gothic tracery. A scale bar in feet runs along the bottom of the image
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in brown ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Horace Walpole used the door depicted in this drawing as a model for the doors in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 104 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):
St. Albans Cathedral
Subject (Topic):
Architectural decorations & ornaments and Doors & doorways
Watercolor of the view from the Library at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with horse and carriage in the distance
Description:
Inscription in ink, in lower right corner of image: "from the library window at Strawberry hill 1783." The hand that wrote the title is the same hand that wrote the title for "Armour of Francis I". G. Harding?, On the verso of the drawing in pencil: "Drawn by Mr. Edwards, mentioned in one of his letters.", Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and Edwards, Edward (1738-1806), British painter.
Inscriptions: Title at top of sheet, scale drawn in below image., Artist's name inscribed by Horace Walpole, recto lower left corner: Robt Adam archt.1768., and Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection.
Set of watercolor drawings showing three views of the enamel model of Sir Thomas Becket's tomb that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The drawings of the front and back views are mounted above; the front face of the object is decorated with religious figures and the back face is decorated with geometric designs. The drawing of the side view, mounted below the other two drawings, shows the single standing figure that decorates this face of the object
Alternative Title:
Model of the shrine of St. Thomas Becket
Description:
Title written in ink across the bottoms of the two drawings mounted at the top of the page; alternative title written within image of the drawing mounted in the upper right., 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 together on page 177 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 (Name):
Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Set of watercolor drawings showing three views of the enamel model of Sir Thomas Becket's tomb that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The drawings of the front and back views are mounted above; the front face of the object is decorated with religious figures and the back face is decorated with geometric designs. The drawing of the side view, mounted below the other two drawings, shows the single standing figure that decorates this face of the object
Alternative Title:
Model of the shrine of St. Thomas Becket
Description:
Title written in ink across the bottoms of the two drawings mounted at the top of the page; alternative title written within image of the drawing mounted in the upper right., 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 together on page 177 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 (Name):
Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Set of watercolor drawings showing three views of the enamel model of Sir Thomas Becket's tomb that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The drawings of the front and back views are mounted above; the front face of the object is decorated with religious figures and the back face is decorated with geometric designs. The drawing of the side view, mounted below the other two drawings, shows the single standing figure that decorates this face of the object
Alternative Title:
Model of the shrine of St. Thomas Becket
Description:
Title written in ink across the bottoms of the two drawings mounted at the top of the page; alternative title written within image of the drawing mounted in the upper right., 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 together on page 177 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 (Name):
Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Set of watercolor drawings showing three views of the enamel model of Sir Thomas Becket's tomb that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The drawings of the front and back views are mounted above; the front face of the object is decorated with religious figures and the back face is decorated with geometric designs. The drawing of the side view, mounted below the other two drawings, shows the single standing figure that decorates this face of the object
Alternative Title:
Model of the shrine of St. Thomas Becket
Description:
Title written in ink across the bottoms of the two drawings mounted at the top of the page; alternative title written within image of the drawing mounted in the upper right., 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 together on page 177 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 (Name):
Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)