View of a large house, perhaps meant to be Houghton Hall, rising from a hill in the middle distance. Trees and thick undergrowth obscure the lower floors of the house and provide a green backdrop for an ornate staircase in the foreground, upon which a man with a walking stick stands
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 67., and Bound in as page 141 in volume 3 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
An imagined view, based on Horace Walpole's description, of the arch at Stowe that was erected in honor of Princess Amelia. The trestled arch, covered in ivy or other greenery, rises up at the center of the image, a medallion of the princess at its apex. Through the arch is seen a glade leading down to a river, the trees just beyond the arch framing the view further; a bridge and hills are visible in the distance beyond. Groups of white figures, presumably classical statues in marble, cluster around the two bases of the arch. In the left foreground a woman in a pink dress looks through the arch, her back to the viewer
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 117., and Bound in as page 189 in volume 5 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
"View of a mansion, with wall and gate in front, figures in the foreground including a man making a drawing of the house and another walking to the left with a dog behind him, sheep grazing to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gentlemans seat on Stockwell Common, Surrey
Description:
Title engraved below image., Twelfth in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 62 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Spilsbury, Jonathan, approximately 1737-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 17, 1766.
Call Number:
Topos N878 no. 2++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
A view of Dilston Hall with its grounds, gardens, and river in foreground. On the far end of the bridge over the river on the right sits a woman with her back to the viewer; a man with a cane walks past her. Other figures in the foreground include a fisherman with a dog addressing a man with a raised cane and a dog at his heels; a woman with a hat appears to have a kerchief to her eye as she views the two men. In the right foreground a woman sits on the grass with child standing in front of her. In the left foreground another two men with walking sticks converse, one has a dog. A poem engraved in three columns below the image laments the death of the Earl
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate signed below image., and Verses below image begin: How mournful feeble nature's tone, when Dilston-Hall appears ...
Publisher:
Drawn on the spot by Thos. Oliver of Hexham in Northumberland, & published according to act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
England, Northumberland., and England.
Subject (Name):
Derwentwater, James Radcliffe, Earl of, 1689-1716 and Dilston Castle (Dilston, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Castles & palaces, Jacobites, and Estates
A view of the home of Dr. Batty in Twickenham from across the Thames. Three horses on the shore pull a fishing boat in foreground, a tree to the left. A row boat on the river midfield wtih two other small boats in the distance, up and down stream
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on the dated drawing on which this print is based., and Inscribed on backing: For Mr. Lewis our fairy Godfather on his 76th birthday, with love Becky & Tim More, Nov. 14th, 1971. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Batty, Robert, 1763?-1849
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Boats, Estates, and Landscapes (Representations)
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
A.D. MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number:
Drawer Topos Ox98 no. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The front half of a chapel, seen from the side, with a low wall to the left, trees, and a structure in the distance to the right; below the image are two columns of verse describing the history of the structure"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the ruins of the chapel at Stanton-Harcourt in the county of Oxford
Description:
Title from text below image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby. See British museum online catalogue., Text below title: The manor of Stanton came into the family Harcourt by the marriage of Rob. de Harcourt Knt. ..., and Plate numbered "I" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Societati Antiquariorum Londinensi dono dedit Simon Comes de Harcourt Socius
Subject (Geographic):
England, Oxfordshire., Oxfordshire (England), and Stanton Harcourt (England)
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
A.D. MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number:
Drawer Topos Ox98 no. 6
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A ruined building on the right with a pyramidical roof and a small square turret on the near left corner, with other buildings extending from it on the right and a large tree in the foreground, a barrow in the left foreground on a broad path leading to a wooden gate with a ruined church and trees beyond"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby. See British museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "IV" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Societati Antiquariorum Londinensi dono dedit Simon Comes de Harcourt Socius
Subject (Geographic):
England, Oxfordshire., Oxfordshire (England), and Stanton Harcourt (England)
Watercolor drawing of Little Strawberry Hill, which was home to the actress Kitty Clive in the 1780's and then to Mary and Agnes Berry after 1791. Trees flank either side of the house and a hedgerow separates the structure from the figures in the foreground. A man works in the garden on the left while a gentleman and lady walk arm in arm in the center of the image
Description:
Titled in Thomas Kirgate's hand below image on mounting page., Attribution to Joseph Charles Barrow from local catalog card., and Mounted on page 5 (formerly D) 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 (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Berry, Mary, 1763-1852, and Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Estates