Drawing the gothic lantern that eventually hung "in the well of the staircase" according Horace Walpole's account in his 1774 Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole. Date of creation based on the appearance of the gothic lantern, as originally designed by Richard Bentley ca. 1755 before Walpole added colored and stained glass to the lower panes
Alternative Title:
Sir Horace Walpole's gothic lamp
Description:
Title from item., Unsigned and undated drawing., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1807 and 1812?]
Call Number:
SH Contents H263 no. 6 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in ink below image, in artist's hand. and Peter Oliver portrait is after a portrait by Van Dyck. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 2, p. 43.
Subject (Name):
Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait drawing of Sir Nicholas Carew; bust length, turned slightly left; bearded; wearing a dark robe over an ornate shirt with a high, white collar; a rounded, dark hat covers his hair
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., Probably drawn from the picture, copied by Milbourn from the original by Holbein, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 184 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.
Subject (Name):
Carew, Nicholas, Sir, approximately 1490-1539, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
Title below image., Signed in image: "Mason." Walter George Mason?, Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
An auctioneer with gavel in raised hand presides over a crowd of bidders wearing tall top hats and long coats as they frantically scribble notes and examine items indistinclty depicted in the background
Description:
Title from a later caption inscribed in graphite pencil below image., Date based on the date of the sale of Horace Walpole's collections at Strawberry Hill., Curatorial note: The scene in the drawing may not depict The Strawberry Hill sale due to a lack of specific details., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Auctions, Auctioneers, and Gavels
View of the dagger in the scabbard, believed by Horace Walpole to have been formerly owned by King Henry VIII
Description:
Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., Two items mounted together; the watercolor drawing is pasted on the top half of the larger sheet of the print, above the wood-engraved image., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
Publisher:
Smith and Robins?
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1839?]
Call Number:
SH Views H263 no. 1 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill great cloister
Description:
Titled in ink in artist's hand, below image., Initialed "GPH" in the bottom left corner of image., and Date based on the submission of his "The Library at Strawberry Hill, Seat of the Earl of Waldegrave" to the Royal Academy in 1839.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Art collections, Estates, and Cloisters