"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
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