- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1753]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 36 Box 3
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Design of the library Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham, showing six Gothic bays of shelving with quatrefoil designs above and a door on the right; statues and busts above the bays. Walpole has made notes on the verso of the drawing noting changes and dimensions
- Description:
- Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the verso of the drawing., Date from Horace Walpole correspondence., Sheet slightly irregular, trimmed in lower half of the right edge., and Formerly mounted on leaf 36 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)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Private libraries, and Libraries (Rooms)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Design for the library at Strawberry Hill [art original].
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- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1781]
- Call Number:
- SH Views Ed25 no. 5 Box 100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Library at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title written in pencil at bottom of the image., Drawing has been squared for transfer., and Possibly a preparatory drawing for Edward Edward's "Library at Strawberry Hill", The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Libraries (Rooms)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Library Strawberry Hill [art original].
- Creator:
- Godfrey, Richard Bernard, approximately 1728- printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1784]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- 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 etched below image., First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 98 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., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 20.2 x 26.3 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Thomas Kirgate
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Libraries (Rooms)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Library at Strawberry Hill [graphic]
- Creator:
- 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)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Libraries (Rooms)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Library at Strawberry Hill [graphic]
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1754.
- Call Number:
- SH Views W218 no. 1 Box 125
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Horace Walpole's sketches for the design of the ceiling in his library at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., A drawing in Horace Walpole's hand, with the date 1754 integrated in the design and sent with a letter dated 17 March 1754 to Bentley from his home in London on Arlington Street. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 35, p. 171., and Horace Walpole (1717-1797), author, politician, and patron of the arts.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Twickenham.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Houses, Estates, and Libraries (Rooms)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Designs for the ceiling in the library at Strawberry Hill] [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1753]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 39 Box 3
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the recto, a drawing showing the floor plan of the library Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham; with Bentley's notes including dimensions. On the verso, a rough pen and ink sketch of the library bays
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Date from Horace Walpole correspondence., and Formerly mounted on leaf 39 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)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Private libraries, and Libraries (Rooms)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Ground plan of the library at Strawberry Hill] [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1753]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 39 Box 3
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the recto, a drawing showing the floor plan of the library Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham; with Bentley's notes including dimensions. On the verso, a rough pen and ink sketch of the library bays
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Date from Horace Walpole correspondence., and Formerly mounted on leaf 39 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)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Private libraries, and Libraries (Rooms)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Ground plan of the library at Strawberry Hill] [art original].
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1781]
- Call Number:
- SH Views Ed25 no. 7+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A drawing of the library at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, complete with full shelves with Gothic arches, the chimney-piece imitated from the tomb of John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall in Westminster Abbey, the ceiling painted by Clermont from Walpole's designs as well as statuary and paintings. Outline of a desk in front of the fireplace sketched in.
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Later engraved by Godfrey for the 1784 edition of The description of the villa at Mr. Horace Walpole, at Strawberry Hill., and Edwards, Edward (1738-1806), British painter.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Twickenham.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Dwellings, and Libraries (Rooms)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The library at Strawberry Hill] [art original].