A drawing showing the interior of a Turkish bath with a woman in the pool in the foreground, another seated smoking a long pipe on cushions in an alcove, center back, and a black woman, clothed and standing on the right holding a stick and towel as she looks at the woman in the pool. Behind her is a figure in the process of tying a towel around her head
Description:
Title inscribed below design., Signed in lower left of design with Bentley's monogram: RB., With Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: A Turkish bath by Mr. Bentley., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on leaf 24 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Topic):
Baths, Turkish, Blacks, Interiors, Public baths, Pipes (Smoking), and Women
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Dancing lessons --Violins -- Costume: female child's costume -- Furnishings: busts -- Pictures -- Trades: dancing masters -- Expressions of speech: tol lol de rol., Watermark (partial) : initials G R under part of armorial shield., and Imprint partially altered: publication day changed from '2' to '1' in contemporary hand. '91' in 1791 also appears to have been changed, possibly from '90.'
Publisher:
Publish'd 1 April, 1791, by W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Interiors, Mirrors, and Musical instruments
Title etched below image., Text below title: No no I was thinking, I was thinking., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10th, 1827 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Tea, Errors, Embarassment, Tables, Interiors, and Pianos
Drawing showing part of the hall and staircase at Strawberry Hill. The bottom of the staircase is visible at right; an open door at center leads to the Little Cloyster and provides a view of the china vase in which Walpole's cat drowned. Three stained-glass windows are present; the walls are covered in Gothic ornamentation
Description:
John Carter (1748-1817), British draughtsman and antiquary., Title, statement of responsibility, and date on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand., and Formerly mounted on page 24 of 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)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Vases, Stained glass, and Stairways
Drawing showing part of the hall and staircase at Strawberry Hill. The bottom of the staircase is visible at right; an open door at center leads to the Little Cloyster and provides a view of the china vase in which Walpole's cat drowned. Three stained-glass windows are present; the walls are covered in Gothic ornamentation
Description:
Title written in ink below image., 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 32 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 (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Vases, Stained glass, and Stairways
Drawing of the interior of the small oratory present just inside the great north gate at Strawberry Hill. Two of the three arched windows are seen; the window on the far right is enclosed with iron rails. At left is the altar on which a saint in bronze stands
Description:
Title written in ink below image., 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 29 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, Oratories, Interiors, Windows, Altars, and Sculpture
Page 199. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and date written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., and Mounted on page 199 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Title from item., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Court and courtiers -- Offices: chamberlain -- Emblems: chamberlain's wand -- Furnishings: window curtains -- Ornate picture frames -- Female dress, ca. 1766 -- Male dress, ca. 1766.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Saint James's Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Interiors, Thrones, Draperies, and Rites & ceremonies
A quaint delineation of a church-interior during service; the pastor, who is somewhat of the Dr. Syntax type, is holding forth. There is a squire's pew, a rosy, sleepy clerk, a large leavening of fat slumberers (among the rest the sexton and pew-opener), a crowded gallery, worshippers both devout and careless, gazers through curiosity, and the usual elements which made up a grotesque-looking country congregation at the end of the last century, including a man with crutches and a peg leg
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication scored through on plate but legible. Cf. Grego for date confirmation., Sheet trimmed to edge of plate mark on lower side., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Cornwall.
Subject (Topic):
Churches, lergy, Interiors, Peg legs, Sleeping, and Religious meetings