Inscriptions: Title at top of sheet, scale drawn in below image., Artist's name inscribed by Horace Walpole, recto lower left corner: Rt Adam Archt 1768., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and With an ownership stamp in red ink: A.C.
Elevation of a Cottage for the Honorable Horace Walpole, near Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title at top of sheet, scale drawn in below image., Artist's name inscribed by Horace Walpole, recto lower left corner: Robt Adam Architect 1766., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: (London Sale, Lot 1248): Ditto [drawings] Views of Strawberry Hill and of the Villa of Lady Diana Beauclerc at Twickenham, by J. Barrow, 1789, and 4 designs for a Cottage, etc. at Strawberry Hill, by Robert Adams, architect, 1767, etc."
Inscription on verso, in ink: "Entrance of the villa at Strawberry Hill. E.E. 1781.", Signed and dated lower right corner of image: "E.E. 1781"., Numbered in pencil on verso: "No. J"., Note in pencil in unknown hand: "The print of this in the Description, 1784 has slight differences: pot with shrub missing, includes more at right, + top. This is surely Edward's original watercolor for the famous print however.", Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Title isncribed at top of sheet, scale drawn in design., Artist's name inscribed by Horace Walpole, recto lower left corner: Rt Adam Archt 1768., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title at top of sheet, scale drawn in design., Artist's name inscribed by Horace Walpole, recto lower left corner: Robt Adam Architect 1766.", Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Inscription in ink on verso, unknown hand: "Strawberry Hill Middx.", Signature in ink on wash-lined mount: "E.E.", Wash-lined mount framed with gold ink., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London., and This drawing is possibly one of a collection dispersed at the Strawberry Hill Sale, 1842, day viii, lot 154. Chewton Collection of Lord Waldegrave, to W.S. Lewis, 1948.
Title written in unknown hand at bottom right of image., Label pasted below image on mount: "Drawn by S. Owen. Engraved by W.B. Cooke. Strawberry Hill. Seat of the Honble. Mrs. Damer." Label probably from a much later engraving published by Cooke., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Samuel Owen (1768/9-1857), marine painter. He supplied a series of eighty-four drawings which were engraved by William Bernard Cooke for his work The Thames (1811), and seven others for the Picturesque Tour on the River Thames, published by Owen himself and William Westall in 1828., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Title from note "Strawberry Hill house" on verso, possibly in William Waldegrave's hand., Title assigned by curator: Strawberry Hill, east front., On verso, attributed to Paul Sandby(?) and "No. 1.A.", Unfinished watercolor drawing., Watermark: IHS Ivilledary., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
View of Horace Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill, the white house seen at a distance through a break in the trees. A green lawn extends towards the viewer in the foreground; a blue sky is visible above
Description:
Title from note in pencil at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Unsigned; questionable attribution to Edward Edwards from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., Drawn in the center of a proof state of the engraved frontispiece to: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]., and Bound in opposite title page in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)