- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585
- Image Count:
- 69
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A collection of 75 drawings and designs for Strawberry Hill which document the growth of Strawberry Hill whilst Bentley was in favor with the owner Horace Walpole and part of the "Strawberry Committee" (ca. 1753-1761) along with John Chute. Drawings include: the first plans for the main library. Besides the designs for Strawberry Hill, there are plans for other buildings, views of Jersey, sketches for Gray's Poems, etc
- Alternative Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richard Bentley ...
- Description:
- Title from special title page printed at Strawberry Hill Press, ca. 1760. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of Strawberry Hill press, p. 255., With notes by Horace Walpole and Richard Bentley on mounts and drawings., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771., Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley, only son of Dr. Bentley, Master of Trinity-College, Cambridge [art original].
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- Creator:
- Mynde, James, 1702-1771, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1745]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of an engraved patera, or shallow libation bowl, of bronze. This object was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
- Description:
- Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., "Ex aere" etched below image., "Tab. XV"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 145 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 on laid paper ; sheet 23.5 x 18.9 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- R. Manby and H.S. Cox
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical antiquities
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Patera aenea, uti vulgo vocatur ... [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mynde, James, 1702-1771, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1745]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of an engraved patera, or shallow libation bowl, of bronze. This object was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
- Description:
- Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., "Ex aere" etched below image., "Tab. XV"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 185 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 on laid paper ; sheet 21.9 x 17 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- R. Manby and H.S. Cox
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical antiquities
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Patera aenea, uti vulgo vocatur ... [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1795]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from the volume in which the print was issued., Plate from: Lysons, D. The environs of London. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell), MDCCXCV [1795], v. 3, title page., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 11 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.
- Publisher:
- Cadell & Davies
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > West view of Strawberry Hill [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1786]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Plate depicting a statue of Ceres at center (labeled "Fig. 1"), with several medals depicted below (labeled "Fig. 2" and "Fig. 3"). Ceres is represented seated, holding a cup in her left hand and various fruits in her right hand; a bull, the emblem of the power of the Creator, is in her lap. This ancient bronze statue was kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was issued., Plate from: Knight, R.P. An account of the remains of the worship of Priapus ... at Isernia ... in two letters ... London : Printed by T. Spilsbury, 1786., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate VIII"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 119 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.
- Publisher:
- T. Spilsbury
- Subject (Name):
- Ceres (Roman deity) and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical antiquities, Sculpture, and Medals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Ceres seated with a bull in her lap] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1786]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Plate depicting a statue of Ceres at center (labeled "Fig. 1"), with several medals depicted below (labeled "Fig. 2" and "Fig. 3"). Ceres is represented seated, holding a cup in her left hand and various fruits in her right hand; a bull, the emblem of the power of the Creator, is in her lap. This ancient bronze statue was kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was issued., Plate from: Knight, R.P. An account of the remains of the worship of Priapus ... at Isernia ... in two letters ... London : Printed by T. Spilsbury, 1786., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate VIII"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 151 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 and crayon manner on wove paper ; sheet 22.5 x 18.5 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- T. Spilsbury
- Subject (Name):
- Ceres (Roman deity) and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical antiquities, Sculpture, and Medals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Ceres seated with a bull in her lap] [graphic].