On recto: One of three designs for a Chinese garden building. This drawing shows the elevation. None of the drawings were executed. On verso: a pencil sketches with figures
Alternative Title:
Triangular Chinese house designed for the Right Honorable Henry Fox
Description:
Title inscribed below design., Signed in lower right of design with Bentley's monogram: RB., Date based on creation date of album., Watermark upper left of sheet: partial crown., and Formerly mounted on leaf 22 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Drawing of the view from Richmond Hill, with the Thames in the distance surrounded by fields and rows of trees. Two boats are on the river; people and horses are visible in the fields. On the road in the foreground are several men on horseback, a strolling man and woman with a dog running behind them, a milkmaid accompanied by a boy, and a coach driving to the right. A vast sky is above
Description:
Title written in brown ink below image., Signed and dated by the artist below image, in lower left., and Formerly laid in at page 5 (formerly D) 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 (Geographic):
Richmond upon Thames (London, England) and Thames River (England),
Subject (Topic):
Rivers, Sailboats, Carriages & coaches, Pedestrians, and Horseback riding
Volume 5, after page 344. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bird's-eye view of Eton College, as seen from across the Thames
Alternative Title:
View of Eton College
Description:
Title written in brown ink below image., Attribution to Bernard Lens from note in pencil on verso: Eton. Drawing by B. Lens - from H. Walpole's collection, bot. at Strawberry Hill Sale. [signed] Gibbs., Date of production based on artist's death date., "From Strawberry Hill collection"--Note in pencil below image, in lower left corner of sheet., and Mounted after page 344 (leaf numbered '55' in pencil) in volume 5 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Volume 5, after page 344. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bird's-eye view of Eton College, as seen from across the Thames
Alternative Title:
View of Eton College
Description:
Title written in brown ink below image., Attribution to Bernard Lens from note in pencil on verso: Eton. Drawing by B. Lens - from H. Walpole's collection, bot. at Strawberry Hill Sale. [signed] Gibbs., Date of production based on artist's death date., "From Strawberry Hill collection"--Note in pencil below image, in lower left corner of sheet., and Mounted after page 344 (leaf numbered '55' in pencil) in volume 5 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
View of the ruins, probably St. Austin's Abbey in Canterbury. A man, a woman, and a child are seen in the foreground
Alternative Title:
View of St. Austin's Monastery
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date written after title, in a different hand., and Mounted opposite page 100 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Hentzner, P. A journey into England. Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1757.
Volume 4, after page 282. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Windsor Castle, sitting atop its terraced hill, as viewed from across the Thames
Description:
Title written in brown ink below image., Attributed to Bernard Lens by curator. A similar drawing, titled "A view of Eaton College" in the same hand, is mounted in volume 5 of the same extra-illustrated set and has a previous owner's note on the verso identifying Lens as the artist., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted after page 282 (leaf numbered '65' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Title etched below image., Below image center: Publishd according to Act of Parliament August, 1760., Place of publication supplied by curator., Above image, title reversed., A Vue d'optique., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Spedale di S. Maria Nuova (Florence, Italy).
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Plazas, City & town life, and People with disabilities
Portrait head of Alexander Pope, in profile to the left, looking forward; his head uncovered, hair cropped short
Alternative Title:
Alexander Pope
Description:
Title from note in pencil in lower left., Signed with the initial "R." in lower right corner; attribution to Jonathan Richardson the Elder from local catalog card., Date written in pencil following title., Mounted on page 90 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
A tracing by George Steevens of a print by Willaim Hogarth: Theatre stage with two dancers; on the left a woman (La Barbarina) jumps with her legs apart and on the right a man (George Desnoyer) stands with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles. With the text "C.C. Prickt lines shewing the rising Height" at the foot of the stage as in the first state and with a face on the sun
Alternative Title:
Charmers of the age
Description:
Title from item., Lengthy pencil note in William Windham's hand below: These two pieces viz. the one marked Qui Color albus erat and The Charmers of the age? are not prints but copies taken with a pen by Mr. Steevens, and given to me, together with many others, not copies, in return for those mentioned in his collection as given by me to him. [Signed] W.W. March 22d 1800., After Paulson, R. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 153., and On page 100 in volume 1.
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barberina, 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
Subject (Topic):
Dancers, German, Italian, and Theatrical productions