- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1853]
- Call Number:
- 24 17 791P Copy 5
- Collection Title:
- Before title page. Castle of Otranto.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of an arched niche, surrounded by ornate Gothic tracery, in which several weapons and pieces of armor are arranged. A plumed helmet sits atop the center stack of the arrangement, with an armor chest plate and a round shield below it. Spears and a spiked mace stick out from the left side of the center stack; a variety of axes stick out from the right side
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted before 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Armor, Arms & armament, Helmets, Spears, Shields, and Axes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Armor in a niche] [art original].
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- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- 24 17 791P Copy 7
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 5. Castle of Otranto.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Conrad seen lying under an enormous helmet at the left end of a large, open courtyard. The helmet, topped by large black feathers, obscures all of Conrad's body except for his legs. A crowd has gathered and several men attempt to lift the helmet off its victim. In the background the arched colonnades of the castle terminate in an arched gate on the right; a round tower rises at center above the colonnades. In the left foreground is a wall with an arched window above an arched door, an armorial shield mounted between them
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date of production supplied by curator., and Mounted opposite page 5 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Castles & palaces, Courtyards, Colonnades, Helmets, and Dead persons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Courtyard of castle, showing Conrad under the giant helmet] [art original].
- Creator:
- Willyams, Cooper, 1762-1816, artist
- Published / Created:
- [April 1787]
- Call Number:
- 24 17 765 Copy 4
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 4. Castle of Otranto.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Manfred depicted full-length on the right, facing left with his arms out in front of him, a horrified expression on his face. He's watching six servants on the left hold an enormous black helmet topped with large black feathers; below the helmet a man lies on his back, blood on the ground surrounding his head. The castle stands in the background, with a low round tower and a crenellated wall immediately behind the figures and higher walls and towers rising in the middle distance
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Signed and dated by the artist in ink in lower left corner., and Tipped in opposite page 4 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. London : Printed for Tho. Lownds in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXV [1765].
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Helmets, Castles & palaces, and Dead persons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Manfred watching servants lift the giant helmet off his dead son] [art original]
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1800]
- Call Number:
- 24 17 791P Copy 7
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 100. Castle of Otranto.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Theodore about to be executed in the courtyard of the castle. On the left, Theodore kneels down before the friar Jerome to pray, his shirt slipping down below his left shoulder to reveal the mark of a bloody arrow. Behind the friar stands Manfred, who ordered the execution, and several attendants; two guards holding pikes and a man carrying a sword stand behind the kneeling prisoner. At the far end of the courtyard on the right, the giant helmet sits in front of colonnades. In the background at center, the bordering colonnades are interrupted by a gray-colored section of the castle with arched windows and alcoves in which statues reside
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date of production supplied by curator., and Mounted opposite page 100 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Castles & palaces, Courtyards, Colonnades, Executions, Prayer, and Helmets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Youth praying in the courtyard] [art original].