Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy available as a pdf., Red morocco by Clarke & Bedford. Bookplate 2 early state, and a copy of the 2d Strawberry Hill fleuron. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of Samuel Putnam Avery., and Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy, with copious manuscript additions and corrections, some on added leaves.
Page 121.7. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Side fronting the door
Description:
Title from note in ink at top of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted., With a numbered key at bottom of image that identifies the pictures that hung on the depicted wall., First in a series of four drawings showing the layout of the walls of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill, with the number "1" likely trimmed away from corner of sheet. On verso is the second drawing in the series: [Catalogue of pictures in the Cabinet] : side where the cabinet of ivories is., and Mounted on page 121.7 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Page 121.18. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
End
Description:
Titles from notes in ink at top of images., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted., Two drawings on a single sheet, one above the other., Each drawing has a numbered key at bottom of image that identifies the pictures that hung on the depicted wall., First two in a series of four drawings showing the layout of the walls of the Gallery at Strawberry Hill, with the number "1" written in upper right corner of sheet. On verso is the third drawing in the series: [Catalogue of pictures in the Gallery] : chimney side., and Tipped in as page 121.18 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
Description:
Title etched below image., Also signed in image: E.E. 1783., Later state, with aquatint added. For earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Views Ed25 no. 8+., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 17 in Horace Walpole's Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1784, by F. Jukes, No. 1 Great Marylebone Street
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Page 121.13. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from notes in ink above image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 121.13 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title etched below image., After a miniature now attributed to Nicholas Dixon; see Christie's sale catalogue "Fine miniatures, enamels and object of art and vertu", 6 July 1965, lot 36., Probably engraved after an intermediary drawing by G.P. Harding, now at The Lewis Walpole Library. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Contents H263 no. 17., and Plate from: The biographical mirrour. London : S. and E. Harding, 1795-[1810], v. 3.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1802, by S. Harding, No. 127 Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Walter, Lucy, 1630?-1658, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings H263 no. 7 Box D125
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Lucy Walter, turned slightly left and looking at the viewer; wearing a pearl necklace, pearl earings, and a blue gown adorned with strings of pearls
Description:
Titled by the artist within lower border., Signed in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Date of production supplied by cataloger, based on the dates of similar drawings by G.P. Harding at The Lewis Walpole Library., Note in pencil beneath lower border: From the miniature at Strawberry Hill., Drawn after the miniature owned by Horace Walpole and kept in his Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels at Strawberry Hill. Walpole believed the miniature to have been painted by Samuel Cooper, but it has since been reattributed to Nicholas Dixon; see Christie's sale catalogue "Fine miniatures, enamels and object of art and vertu", 6 July 1965, lot 36., and A print entitled "Lucy Barlow alias Waters", published by Harding's father Sylvester in 1802 for The biographical mirrour, was probably engraved from this drawing; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Contents H263 no. 16.
Subject (Name):
Walter, Lucy, 1630?-1658, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Page 121.3. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
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1
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Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., With a lettered key written to the left of the image that identifies the various rooms depicted in the floor plan., Possibly the original drawing for a plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., and Bound in as page 121.3 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Sir Edward Walpole, turned to the left, wearing a long wig and the robes of the Bath
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed by the artist in gold paint in lower right corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 85 in volume 7 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.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Edward, Sir, 1706-1784, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)