- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [late 18th century?]
- Call Number:
- 33 19 Copy 1
- Collection Title:
- Between pages 10 and 11. Copies of seven original letters from King Edward VI to Barnaby Fitz
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the ruins of Waltham Palace with three figures resting on the grass
- Description:
- Title written in brown ink below image., Statement of responsibility (trimmed) written in brown ink beneath lower right corner of image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted between pages 10 and 11 in Richard Bull's extra-illustrated copy of: Copies of seven original letters from King Edward VI to Barnaby Fitz-Patrick. Strawberry-Hill, printed in the year MDCCLXXII [1772].
- Subject (Topic):
- Ruins
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bishop of Winchesters' at Walton [sic] [art original]
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- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1790]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents C323 no. 2 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 68
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing representing the procession in the romance of the Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
- Description:
- John Carter (1748-1817), British draughtsman and antiquary., Signed and titled by the artist, lower center. Same text transcribed in another hand on verso., and Later label on verso: This picture was painted by John Carter (1748-1817) and was exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1790. It belonged to Horace Walpole and was at Strawberry Hill until the sale in 1842 when it was bought by the Reverend Horace Cholmondeley from whom it came through his daughter and grand-daughter to H.C.J.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Entry of Frederick into the Castle of Otranto [art original]
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing depicting a head of King Henry III carved in oak. The king wears a crown, and curled hair protrudes out from under it on both sides. The date(?) "12 III 16" and decorative symbols fill the space above the head
- Alternative Title:
- Henry III
- Description:
- Title from note in black ink below image, perhaps in the artist's hand., Artist's name added by Horace Walpole in brown ink in lower right corner., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., Three lines of descriptive text written below title in black ink: This head (carv'd in oak) is in the possession of Dr. Palmer of Peterborough Northamton shire and was brought from Barnwell Church near Oundle Norn. shire about 40 years ago. Henry the Third endow'd this church. This drawing is half the size of the original head., Two additional annotations by Horace Walpole in brown ink are present; below the descriptive text is written "The upper part above the crown is modern, and the date wrong" and at the bottom of the sheet is written "Now at Mr. Walpole's at Strawberry Hill.", and Mounted on page 73 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):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Henry III, King of England, 1207-1272, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Kings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Henry the Third [art original]
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1785.
- Call Number:
- Drawings C323 no. 3 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A view of inside the stone circle of Stonehenge. One figure, holding a long pole, stands next to a fallen sarsen stone while another figure, holding a similar pole, stands on top of the fallen sarsen stone
- Description:
- Title written below image, in artist's hand?, Signed lower right: J. Carter, Inscription in pencil lower right: This leaning has now been set upright in 1901., John Carter, English draughtsman and antiquary, 1748-1817., For further information, consult library staff., and One of four drawings in a folder.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquities and Archaeological sites
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Inside view of Stonehenge (taken 1781 and drawn 1785 / [art original]
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1785.
- Call Number:
- Drawings C323 no. 2 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Stonehenge before the fall of the Trilithon in 1797. A figure sits on a low stone in the center
- Description:
- Title from item., Signed lower right: J. Carter., Inscription in pencil lower right: Taken before the fall of the Right hand Trilithon on 3rd Jany 1797., John Carter, English draughtsman and antiquary, 1748-1817., For further information, consult library staff., and One of four drawings in a folder.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquities and Archaeological sites
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Inside view of Stonehenge taken 1781 and drawn 1785 / [art original]
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1772]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3678.8+ (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing depicting the gallery at Horace Walpole's house, Strawberry Hill, with view of the Holbein Room through an open door on the right. Light shines through a stained glass at the end of the gallery
- Description:
- Title from inscription in Thomas Kirgate's hand, in pencil at bottom of sheet., Date based on the fact that the stained glass window was replaced in 1772 by a door into the newly built Great Room bed chamber. Attributed to Carter by previous owner., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and John Carter (1748-1817), British draughtsman and antiquary.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Galleries (Display spaces)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Passage to the gallery and interior of the Holbein Room at Strawberry Hill [art original].
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1785.
- Call Number:
- Drawings C323 no. 1 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- View of Stonehenge and the surrounding Salisbury Plain
- Alternative Title:
- View of Stonehenge taken at the distance of a mile 1781
- Description:
- Signed lower right: J. Carter del. 1785., Inscription in pencil on verso: Interesting set of 4 original view of Stonehenge sketches in 1781 by J. Carter, doubtless the J. Carter (1748-1817) Draughtsman and architect and author of "Ancient Architecture of England", fol. London 1795. Edit. by J. Britton fol. 1845. with 106 plates, nos. II and III being of Stonehenge., John Carter, English draughtsman and antiquary, 1748-1817., For further information, consult library staff., and One of four drawings in a folder.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquities and Archaeological sites
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of Stone henge taken at the distance of a mile 1781 [art original]