A drawing showing the plan and elevation for Sir Thomas Seabright's farmhouse Beechwood in Herfordshire which was never executed according to Horace Walpole's note. Includes notes on heights and floorplan with rooms indicated in the artist's hand and note at the bottom of the drawing, "... where the pricked line is: must be thrown a strong arch, to Support the Angle made betweem the two tow'rs."
Alternative Title:
Design (not executed) of a farmhouse for Sir Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertforshire
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink written on mount below drawing., Date based on creation date of Horace Walpole's album. One of two drawings for the farmhouse included in the album., Watermark: IV., and Formerly mounted on leaf 53 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Unexecuted design for chimney-piece for Wentworth Castle in Yorkshire, with scale and measurements and notes on the design. In a letter dated 27 March 1755 Walpole wrote to Bentley, "Your chimney is come, but not to honour: The caryatides are fine and free, but the rest is heavy: Lord Strafford is not at all struck with it, and thinks it old-fashioned. It certainly tastes of Indigo Jones. Your myrtles I have seen in their pots, and they are magnificent, but I fear very sickly."
Description:
Title written in ink by Horace Walpole on mount below drawing., Partial watermark on the right edge, trimmed., and Formerly mounted on leaf 42 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Drawing of Federico Zuccaro (ca. 1540-1609), Italian born painter, draughtsman and writer, brother of Taddeo Zuccaro
Description:
Title from inscription below image., Inscription in ink, lower right: in poses[n] Mr. T. Gibson paint., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Zucchero in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 1, opp. p. 140., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Drawing of part of the wall decoration, possibly a frieze or wallpaper, of the Round Tower at Strawberry Hill. An image of a cherub placing a vase upon a pedestal is present within an oval at the bottom of the design
Description:
Title from note on verso in an unidentified hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., and Formerly laid in at page 103 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.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Friezes (Ornamental bands), Wallpapers, and Putti
On recto: One of three designs by Bentley for a Chinese buidling. This sketch shows the garden in front the proposed Chinese building. In the end of the designs were executed. On verso: a small pen sketch of a roof line
Description:
Title inscribed below design., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on top half of leaf 23 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1760].
Drawings W516 no. 1 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 6
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Bard
Description:
Title inscribed by artist on verso: Gray's Bard., Signed by the artist in lower right: BW., Signed by the artist on the verso: Benjm. West., Benjamin West (1738-1820) was a British portrait painter. He was elected to the Royal Academy in ..., and Catalog of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library: no. 119. For further information, consult library staff.
One of three designs for a Chinese garden buildling; this one showing the floor plan. None of the designs were executed
Description:
Title inscribed below design., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on lower half of leaf 23 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Portrait of Henry Cook (1642-1700), Dutch born artist who was employed in England under Abraham Van der Doort (d. 1640) as a copier of the King's paintings in the court of Charles I.
Alternative Title:
Henry Cooke history painter and Henry Cooke
Description:
Title from inscription below image., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 118., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.