Title page. Account of Russia as it was in the year 1710.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill estate as viewed from the east, with the house in the middle distance surrounded by trees. A lawn stretches towards the viewer in the foreground; a cloud-filled sky is above
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on depiction of the Round Tower of the house, which was not completed until 1762., With printed (letterpress?) text "Strawberry-Hill 17[blank]" below image, with the digits "58" written in brown ink to complete the date., and Mounted as lower half of title page in a copy of: Whitworth, C. An account of Russia as it was in the year 1710. Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
A drawing of six heads mostly in profile, three men, two ladies, and one child, all wearing hats. One lady in the upper right is a view from the back with only a hit of her check shown while the man in the foreground is shown full-face. A drawing in the lower left has been heavily scored through. From the left margin mid-sheet is a drawing of a sleeved-wrist and hand hold a stick(?).
Alternative Title:
Miscellaneous heads
Description:
Title from dealer's description; alternative title from Draper Hill., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Date from Draper Hill., and A drawing from a sketchbook given by Gillray to the Rev. John Sneyd in the late 1790s.
Under an arch, St. Anthony in profile looking left, in prayer with a rosary between his hands and a small crucifix on the table before him. In the left distance a niche with a bowl
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date based on creation date of Walpole's album in which this was mounted., and Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly mounted on leaf 1 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, approximately 250-355 or 356.
A campanion piece to print of the same title (Such things are. Telles choses sont) which ridicules women's dress. This plate shows four figures of dandies, one with a huge muff, one with a tall cane, all with the high waist, tight trousers, exaggerated ruffles at the neck, fashions that are all of the period
Description:
Title and date from print based on this drawing published by S.W. Fores April 2, 1787., Attributed to Captain Mercer: According to Henry Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comed. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, vol. 1, p. 328., and Formerly mounted with an impression of the engraving, based on this drawing: See Lewis Walpole Library 787.04.02.04+.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, French, and Men
Volume 3, page 192a. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of the suit of armor, shown in an arched niche with a pike and shield, that Horace Walpole believed to be of Francis I, King of France. It sold in lot 77 on the nineteenth day of the 1842 Strawberry Hill Sale
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed in lower left corner with the artist Thomas H. Shepherd's initials., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., and Bound in as page 192a in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Page 22A. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attribution to Richard Bentley from Thomas Kirgate's note in pencil below image: First sketch, by Bentley., Date of production inferred from the 1753 publication date of the first edition of Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. This drawing is presumably an early design for the tailpiece to A long story., Written above in brown ink are nine lines of text, including the final two stanzas of the poem A long story., and Tipped in as page [22A] in Thomas Kirgate's copy of: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wash drawing depicting an ornate vase apparently owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 31 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Title from ms. note added to mount., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Artist's attribution trimmed with loss of text., Sheet trimmed within design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to24 x 33 cm. Ms. title on mount: Tartini's dream.