First leaf following title page. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Landscape; view of Strawberry Hill, a neo-gothic house in parkland, seen from a pool in the foreground, with a water-wheel on the left, a horseman on the far bank, sailing-boat on the right and cattle grazing in the field before the house."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
East front of Strawberry Hill, from the river
Description:
Title from note in brown ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Alternative title from Gascoigne., Printmaker's monogrammatic initials etched below image in lower left; date etched below image in lower right., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on first leaf following title page 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., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 11.3 x 15.7 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and With manuscript title "View of Strawberry Hill" added in brown ink below image. Also added are the letters "ollaston f." to the etched monogrammatic initials "CW" in lower left, completing the statement of responsibility "CWollaston f."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A drawing of the library at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham. Shelves with Gothic arches line three walls and are filled with books; on the back wall is a large arched window and two small rose windows filled with painted glass. On the far left is the chimney-piece imitated from the tomb of John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall in Westminster Abbey, over which the painting of The Marriage of Henry VI hangs. In front of the fireplace is a desk on which Mrs. Damer's terra-cotta eagle sits in its glass case. Half of the ceiling painted by Clermont from Walpole's designs is visible at top; oval and rectangular paintings line the walls above the bookshelves
Description:
Title devised by curator., 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 102 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, Dwellings, Libraries (Rooms & spaces), and Interiors
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)
View of the north side of the house at Strawberry Hill, looking towards the screen leading into the Prior's garden. The exterior walls of the house rise above on the left; in the middle distance a man stands within the doorway to the garden, the open door behind him. The courtyard wall and door leading to the road are seen at right
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist and date of production from curator., and Formerly laid in 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)
View from the west front at Strawberry Hill, from the across the road. A man in the road, leaning on the walking stick in his left hand appears to gesture with his right hand over at the turret of the villa beyond the brick wall which surrounds the estate
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Inscribed with his name and dated by the artist in design, lower right., and Joseph Charles Barrow (fl. 1789-1802), English artist.
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, Dwellings, and Estates