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1. The shell bench [graphic]
- Creator:
- Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1784]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A print of the bench in the shape of a shell, carved in oak from a design by Richard Bentley for Horace Walpole, that was on the grounds of his Strawberry Hill estate in Twickenham
- Description:
- Title etched below image., First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Mounted on page 177 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., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 20.1 x 19 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Thomas Kirgate
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Benches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The shell bench [graphic]
2. The shell bench [graphic]
- Creator:
- Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1784]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A print of the bench in the shape of a shell, carved in oak from a design by Richard Bentley for Horace Walpole, that was on the grounds of his Strawberry Hill estate in Twickenham
- Description:
- Title etched below image., First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Mounted on page 264 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., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 18.1 x 17.3 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Thomas Kirgate
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Benches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The shell bench [graphic]
3. The shell bench [graphic]
- Creator:
- Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1784]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents M875 no. 1 Impression 1 Box 110
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., In the upper right corner, above image: "Vol.II. P.508.", First state of the plate, without volume and page numbering, engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Plate reissued, with vol. and page number added, for: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798-1825, vol. ii., and Printing after 1798.
- Publisher:
- G.G. and J. Robinson
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections and Benches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The shell bench [graphic]