Two perspectives of the shell seat at Strawberry Hill: in the center a view from the front with a tree behind and to the right probably a view from the side, now torn. The seat stood at the end of a winding walk, on what was then called Wood Walk
Description:
Title inscribed by the artist in ink below design., Signed by the artist in ink lower right., Watermark (partial) centered in lower edge., Date based on a 1754 note of payment in Walpole's Accounts to William Robinson for making the shell seat., and Formerly mounted on leaf 33 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
A drawing of the floor plan design for the gallery round tower in Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex, with pencil additions and a note "a window to the dome".
Alternative Title:
Designs for the Gallery round tower, and chapel and Plan of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript note in ink on verso., Title from former curator: Plan of the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Date based on creation date of album., Watermark in center of sheet: IV., and Formerly mounted on the verso of leaf 57 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Drawing of Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill in Twickenham from the view in the southeast
Alternative Title:
East view of Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex
Description:
Title inscribed by artist below image; signed and dated by the artist lower right of image., On verso in contemporary hand: Strawberry Hill en Middlesex maison de campagne de Mr. Horace Walpole. Added in pencil is a note (in French) giving biographical information on Walpole and noting that this drawing was likely to have been intended as a print, citing the presence of pinpricks that outline some of the buildings., and Johann Heinrich (or John Henry) Müntz (1727-1798), painter and architect, engaged by Walpole to paint at Strawberry Hill . He created a series of topographical drawings and copied old masters, but relations were broken off in late 1759 after a quarrel.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Houses
Drawing of a Chinese tea-house with scale of a room and extensive notes, possibly the building referenced in Horace Walpole's Description of the villa ..., designed and drawn by Mr. Bentley for the corner of the wood at Strawberry Hill, where the chapel was constructed ...
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed in lower right below image: Rd. Bentley design., Date based on creation date of album., Watermark in center of sheet: IV., and Formerly mounted on leaf 18 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
A drawing showing the view of the entrance from the road at Strawberry Hill, home of Horace Walpole, with detailed notes and measurements by the artist. The doorway is flanked by two windows and a large window above
Description:
Title at top of drawing, from a ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand in ink over graphite. Damage with loss of text in upper right corner., Date from J. Harris., Watermark in center of sheet., Part of a portfolio of drawings assembled by Horace Walpole under the title Drawings and designs, ca. 1760., "Breadth of the window with [the] frame: 5: foot"--Note in Walpole's hand, in image., "The shields must project in a ridge down the middle"--Note in Walpole's hand, lower right., and Formerly mounted on leaf 29 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Elevation of flank of seven bays of pointed arches divided by thin buttresses, and elevation of end. This is probably the design for the cloister linking Bateman's house to this Gothic Octagon designed by Muntz. In a letter written to George Montagu on 24 September 1762, Horace Walpole refers to Bentley's design for Bateman's cloister; also associated with Walpole's Strawberry Hill. See Harris
Alternative Title:
Gothic cloister designed by Mr. Bentley
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso., Signed by the artist in the lower right corner below design., Date based on correspondence between Montague and Walpole in which this design is discussed., and Watermark: [...] C. Blauw.
Subject (Name):
Bateman, Richard, approximately 1705-1773, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Godfrey, Richard Bernard, approximately 1728- printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1784] and [printed 1798)
Call Number:
SH Views Ed25 no. 13 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the Horace Walpole's library at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham; with the fireplace in the center, shelves filled with books, oval portraits above bookcases, and partial view of the ornate ceiling with coats of arms; the room is otherwise depicted unfurnished
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered in upper right corner: "Vol. II. P. 442"., Plate from: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798-1825, vol. ii., and First state of the plate, without volume and page numbering, engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Publisher:
G.G. and J. Robinson
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
View of Strawberry Hill (north front) as seen from the lane with fences on either side. A man with a scythe and a woman carrying a baby walk in the road in front of the estate, towards the viewer
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill, view from the northeast road and Strawberry Hill, north front
Description:
Edward Edwards (1738-1806), British painter., Titled, dated, and signed on wash-line mount, bottom edge., and Formerly mounted on page 20 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):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Pencil drawing by an amateur artist of the west front of Strawberry Hill, as seen from the road. Also in the road is a man pushing a wheel barrel as a young boy gestures to him. On the verso is a pencil sketch of a donkey's head
Description:
Drawing signed by artist in lower right corner of image; signed and dated again in left corner of image., On verso, in later hand, misidentified as "SH - North Front"., and Partial watermark: [W]hatman 1817.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Estates, and Donkeys