View of a large house, perhaps meant to be Houghton Hall, rising from a hill in the middle distance. Trees and thick undergrowth obscure the lower floors of the house and provide a green backdrop for an ornate staircase in the foreground, upon which a man with a walking stick stands
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 67., and Bound in as page 141 in volume 3 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
An imagined view, based on Horace Walpole's description, of the arch at Stowe that was erected in honor of Princess Amelia. The trestled arch, covered in ivy or other greenery, rises up at the center of the image, a medallion of the princess at its apex. Through the arch is seen a glade leading down to a river, the trees just beyond the arch framing the view further; a bridge and hills are visible in the distance beyond. Groups of white figures, presumably classical statues in marble, cluster around the two bases of the arch. In the left foreground a woman in a pink dress looks through the arch, her back to the viewer
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 117., and Bound in as page 189 in volume 5 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Watercolor drawing of the fictional archbishop in Lesage's novel Gil Blas; bust length, turned slightly right; overweight, with white hair and bushy white eyebrows; wearing a mitre, pectoral cross, and chasuble
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 210., and Bound in as page 80 in volume 9 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Composite image, set against a gray background pattern with images of leaves, flowers, and birds, including ten small rectangular views of English scenery, some drawn to overlap and partially obscure others. The scenes include: a view of a bridge and cathedral and several views of the English countryside, with fields, trees, roads, small houses, and rivers with the occasional figures, including a man on horseback, a man lying on a hill, and people riding in a carriage
Description:
Title written at bottom of image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 262., and Bound in as page 180 in volume 11 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Subject (Topic):
Nature, Plants, Bodies of water, Cities & towns, and Dwellings
Eighty-nine women drawn in a book: 10 February 1987 - 1 February 1988
Description:
25-150. 14-R., By Erica Van Horn--Front free endpaper., Cover title., I0 February 1987, I found this book on Mulberry St., New York City, U.S.A.--P. [1]., Images on rectos., and Mixed media in a found accounting ledger book.