Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in ink in lower right corner., and Date based on time period after the completion of Fonthill Abbey and before the final collapse of the tower.
A gentleman leads a young woman and her mother (or chaperone) to the door of a carriage, held open by the coach driver who wears a top hat and a peculiar grin. In the background is a house or inn with a partially drawn figure (in ink) watching or emerging from the door. On the verso, pencil sketches of two men in top hats, and a smaller figure lightly sketched with a top hat in black ink
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed by the artist in lower left., Date from dealer's description., and On verso are later inscriptions in pencil.
Subject (Topic):
Young adults, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, and Dwellings
View of houses along the shore of Isleworth Middlesex as seen from the Thames River. Ladies and gentlemen stroll on the path along the river. One gentleman alights from a boat that has pulled up to the landing on the right as his companion turns to pay the boatman
Description:
Title from curator., After the title is written, in same unknown hand, "H. Walpole's collection.", Attributed to J.-H. Müntz., and Press-mark C.1.22 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; moved to the Round Tower.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Middlesex., and Isleworth (London, England)
End flyleaf. Miscellanies historical and phililogical.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attributed to Horace Walpole in local card catalog record., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., and Drawn on end flyleaf in Horace Walpole's copy of Miscellanies historical and phililogical.