A collection of portraits, clippings, playbills, Horace Walpole's bookplate (State 1), miniatures and letters (now shelved separately), and a lock of hair (also shelved separately) all related to Horace Walpole and his villa Strawberry Hill; all bound or laid in a volume. A brief one page biography of Horace Walpole printed with the incorrect year of birth, ends: "He died a martyr to the gout March 2, 1797"-- "Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, born in the year 1716. The younger son of Sir Robert Walpole ...". Laid in prints include a view "North front of Strawberry-Hill / Barlow del. et sculp." Portraits include: Horatio Earl of Orford; Thos. Kirgate; Duchesse de Choiseul and Madame la Marquise du Deffand; Madame la Marquise du Deffand; Françoise Marguerite de Sevigné, Comtesse de Grignan; Marie de Rabutin Chantal, Mme. de Sévigné; Miss Berry; Mme. de Maintenon; Madme. de Maintenon, from the original in the Versailles Gallery; Mary Magdalen, wife of Horatio Lord Walpole; Horatio Lord Walpole from an original by Vanloo at Strawberry Hill; Honble. Anne Damer from an original in the possession of the Right Honble. Genl. Conway; Field Marshall Conway; The Honble. Horace Walpole from a picture by Eckardt in the Collection at Strawberry Hill; Horace Walpole and Miss Walpole, two minatures by Zincke. Also mounted or laid in are the bookplates of Mrs. Damer and Horace Walpole. Two theatre programs, one dated November 1800, for a performance of The old Maid and Intriguing Chambermaid and the other dated November 1801 for a performance of Fashionable friends and Lover's quarrels and Also laid in where a lock of Mme de Maintenon's hair had been fixed (now removed): a letter in Paget Toynbee's hand describing Horace Walpole's two accounts of how he came to possession of a letter of Madame de Maintenon
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill rarities
Description:
Title stamped in gilt-lettering on front cover., Bound in brown morocco with gold tooling by Riviere & Son; stamped on inside front cover., With a list of items removed and shelved separately; other notes written on the pages indicate what other items were removed and where they were filed at the time of dispersal., and Digitized pages with materials, skipping blank pages. Manuscripts removed and now filed in LWL MSS 36. For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
Call Number:
LWL MSS 11 Box 13
Image Count:
152
Description:
Bound in red morocco, with a clasp., Accompanied by Horace Walpole's "portrait" of Madame du Deffand [Holograph] (3 p.) and his account of her "portraits" [Holograph] (5 p.), Includes an index., and Some "portraits" are printed as appendices in the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, 1939, v.8, including one of Horace Walpole.
Formerly owned by Horace Walpole with his ms. note quoting Pope, two stanzas, mounted below: "Thus, I dear Friend, to you my thoughts impart, ... And really are what others but profess," from Congreve's Epistle to Sr. K. Temple, followed by a stanza beginning "And you, brave Cobham, to the latest breath ... O save my country, Heav'n' shall be your last" from Pope., Numbered in lower right '22'., Plate no. 22 from: Faber, J. Kit-Cat Club : done from the original paintings of Sr. Godfrey Kneller. London: Tonson and Faber, [1732-1735]., Sheet trimmed to: 35.1 x 25.3 cm., and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
[J. Tonson & J. Faber]
Subject (Name):
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723
Subject (Topic):
Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 1669?-1749 and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 [[Ownership
George II, wearing a Hanoverian scarf and his feet encircled by a scarf marked "Poor E-g-d", stands o n a field of battle along side a large Hanoverian officer, the Earl of Stair, and the Duke of D'Aremberg.
Description:
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., Date from Stephens., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-20., Title engraved below image., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Topic):
Dettingen, Battle of, Karlstein, Unterfranken, Germany, 1743 and George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
Daily journal, Gentleman's and tradesman's complete annual accompt-book, Court and city director, for the year ..., and Annual register, or, Court and city director, for ...
Description:
Subtitle varies, <1760>: " ... to which is added, the Annual register, or, court and city director, for ...", Description based on: 1757., and Annotated throughout by a father and then a son. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed ... for R. Baldwin
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Account books, Diaries (Blank-books), and Officials and employees
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-15., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Close-stool -- Clyster-pipe., Title from item., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified]
Subject (Name):
Vanlot, fl. 1742
Subject (Topic):
Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, Charles VII, Holy Ro, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, and Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746
Shitten condition of the King of Prussia and Sh-tten condition of the King of Pru---a
Description:
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: All mark'd with De Luces& cram'd with French gold, forth sally'd our hero, to seize, have and hold ..., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-25., Printseller's announcement after imprint: Where is sold 20 more., Temporary local subject terms: Defecation -- Medicine: smelling salts -- Money., Title engraved above image., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Subject (Topic):
Charles Alexandre, duc de Lorraine, 1712-1780, Defecation, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, and Military uniforms
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxv, p. 12., Mounted on sheet with seven other prints. To view other titles, search by call number: 850.00.00.06+, Mounted to 30 x 37 cm., and Title from caption below image.
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., Five lines of text titled "Description" below verse: The Colossus at Rhodes, a stature of [the] Sun 70 cubits high ..., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-1., Seven lines of verse in two columns below title: Why man, he doth bestride [the] narrow world ... Shakespeare., Temporary local subject terms: Cuba -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare -- Colossus -- Cardinal Fleury as a fox., Title from item., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Topic):
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743 and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745