"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, after Reynolds; standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table with books, quill and print, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; in an oval, with Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with new imprint statement and with the plate reduced in size on all four edges, of a print issued with the imprint: Published as the Act directs Feby. 14th, 1797, by W. Clarke, No. 38 New Bond Street. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library: Portraits W218 no. 7., and "Strawberry Hill" in all capitals is etched above title and below image of the estate.
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, after Reynolds; standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table with books, quill and print, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; in an oval, with Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with new imprint statement and with the plate reduced in size on all four edges, of a print issued with the imprint: Published as the Act directs Feby. 14th, 1797, by W. Clarke, No. 38 New Bond Street. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library: Portraits W218 no. 7., "Strawberry Hill" in all capitals is etched above title and below image of the estate., Mounted on page 3 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., 1 print : etching & engraving on wove paper ; sheet 17.9 x 11.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of imprint statement along lower edge; heavily foxed paper.
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, after Reynolds; standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table with books, quill and print, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; in an oval, with Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill below."--British Museum online catalogue description of a later state, registration no.:1985,1109.129
Description:
Title etched below image., Proof state with lettering. For an earlier proof before letters, see Lewis Walpole Library: Portraits W218 no. 5., "Strawberry Hill" in all capitals is etched above title and below image of the estate., and Kirgate's notes for revisions to the plate written in pencil in the right margin.
Publisher:
Published June [...]th, 1796, by J. Barlow, No. 5 St. George's Place, Black-friars Road, Surry
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, after Reynolds; standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table with books, quill and print, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; in an oval, with Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., State with new imprint and with alterations to the portrait and to the image of the estate. For a proof state before these alterations and with a 1796 publication line, see Lewis Walpole Library: Portraits W218 no. 6., and "Strawberry Hill" in all capitals is etched above title and below image of the estate.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 14th, 1797, by W. Clarke, No. 38 New Bond Street
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, after Reynolds; standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table with books, quill and print, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; in an oval, with Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Name of manufacturer and date from pencil annotation on verso., Restrike of a plate from which all earlier imprint statements have been burnished. For the last known imprint of "Published Augt. 4th, 1797, by W. Bent," see Lewis Walpole Library: Portraits W218 no. 8., "Strawberry Hill" in all capitals is etched above title and below image of the estate., and Copper plate from which this impression was made was later given to the library. See Lewis Walpole Library: Object 796.00.00.60.