- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1781]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of the inside of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. Small paintings hang on the walls; figurines, small statues, and urns fill the niches in the walls. The rosewood cabinet, in which Horace Walpole kept enamels and miniatures, is mounted on the wall near the center of the image. Two stools with red cloth occupy the corners. A domed ceiling with a yellow star at its center is seen above; the carpet below mirrors the ceiling in having a large yellow star among its ornamentation
- Description:
- Title written on mount below image., Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount., and Mounted on page 126 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)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Interiors, Galleries (Display spaces)., Cabinets (Case furniture)., Sculpture, and Urns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cabinet at Strawberry Hill [art original]
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- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Wash drawing of the small bronze bust of the Roman emperor Caligula, with silver eyes, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The bust was unearthed in Herculaneum and was sent to Walpole after being purchased by Sir Horace Mann in Florence
- Alternative Title:
- All bronze except the pedestal. The eyes are silver
- Description:
- Title from block letter inscription on pedestal in image; alternative 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 180 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):
- Caligula, Emperor of Rome, 12-41. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Caligula [art original].
- Creator:
- Delamotte, William, 1775-1863, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1842]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents D336 no. 5 Box 100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art, Art collections, Children, Owls, and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cast of the child of Rubens and two silver owls in the collection at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- June 1t, 1792.
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A bust of Henry VII, with long curling hair and a fillet about his brow, his head leaning to the left, the sculpture upon a plinth lettered "Henricus VII Torreggiani Opus Ao MDIX", masonry behind."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text on plinth in image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Engraved after a sculpture formerly attributed to Torrigiano., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: Carter, J. Specimens of the ancient sculpture and painting, now remaining in this kingdom ... London : Published as the act directs by John Carter, Wood St. Westminster, 1780-87 [1780-94]., Text below image, centered: In the possession of the Honorable Horace Walpole, now Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill, Middx. (Drawn to half the size of the original)., "The drawing in [the] possn. of R. Bull Esqr."--Below lower left corner of image., and Tipped in at page 95 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.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the act directs by J. Carter, Hamilton Street Hyde Park Corner
- Subject (Name):
- Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Henricus VII Torreggiani Opus Ao MDIX [graphic].
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of a small head in basalt of Jupiter Serapis wearing the modius, a flat-topped cylindrical headdress or crown. This small statue was purchased by Sir William Hamilton from the Barberini Collection at Rome, was later sold to the Duchess of Portland, and was then bought by Horace Walpole upon her death. It was kept in either the Beauclerk Closet or the Round Room at Strawberry Hill
- 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 157 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):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Serapis (Egyptian deity),
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Jupiter Serapis, in the Round Room, size of the original [art original].
6.
- Creator:
- Delamotte, William, 1775-1863, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1842]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents D336 no. 4 Box 100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Title below image., Initials "S.W." unidentified., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Dogs, and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Model of two dogs, in terra cotta, by Mrs. Damer in the collection at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Delamotte, William, 1775-1863, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1842]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents D336 no. 6 Box 100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Gibbons, Grinling, 1648-1721 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art, Art collections, Sculpture, and Wood carvings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Point lace cravat, a carving in wood, by Gringling Gibbin in the collection at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 1st, 1782.
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of a head of King Henry III carved in wood. The king wears a crown, and curled hair protrudes out from under it on both sides. The date(?) "12 III 16" and decorative symbols fill the space above the head
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from title page of the work for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: Carter, J. Specimens of the ancient sculpture and painting, now remaining in this kingdom ... London : Published as the act directs by John Carter, Wood St. Westminster, 1780-87 [1780-94]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 96 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.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs by Jon. Carter, Wood St., Westminster
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Henry III, King of England, 1207-1272, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Kings, Sculpture, and Wood carvings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The head of King Henry the Third (carv'd in oak) it was brought from Barnwell Church near Oundle Northamtonshire [sic], when it was repair'd about about [sic] 40 years ago, now in the possession of the Honble. Horace Walpole. [graphic]
9.
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of two small statues that were kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The female figure on the left, labeled "No. I" lightly in pencil above, stands on a pedestal with her arms extended towards the viewer; human and animal images cover her clothing, griffins and birds decorate the plaques extending behind her head, and a castle tower (?) serves as a hat. The figure on the right, labeled "No. II", is shaped like an Egyptian sacophagus, the portion below the crossed arms being covered with hieroglyphs
- 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 176 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):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture, Figurines, and Sarcophagi
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Two mummies in the Tribune, size of the originals no. 1 is granite, no. 2 a sort of red clay. [art original]
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of the interior of the small oratory present just inside the great north gate at Strawberry Hill. Two of the three arched windows are seen; the window on the far right is enclosed with iron rails. At left is the altar on which a saint in bronze stands
- 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 29 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, Oratories, Interiors, Windows, Altars, and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View in the oratory, looking west [art original].