- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Wash drawing of the bronze vase, urn-shaped with a base and stem and handles, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. On the side of the vase is a scene in bas-relief, taken from an antique by Fiammingo, of five naked boys surrounding a long-haired calf(?). The vase was formerly part of the Harleian collection
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 195 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Vases, Urns, and Bas-reliefs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A beautiful bronze vase taken from the antique by Fiamingo] [art original].
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1757]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 66 726 T675
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 105 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Urns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Cartouche with urn in the middle flanked by female figures] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1775]
- Call Number:
- Waller no. 9
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator. and Approximate date assigned by curator.
- Subject (Topic):
- Yard ornaments and Urns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Garden sculpture, urn with handle] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1775]
- Call Number:
- Waller no. 8
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator. and Approximate date assigned by curator.
- Subject (Topic):
- Yard ornaments and Urns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Garden sculpture, urn] [art original].
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Wash drawing divided by ink lines into four quadrants, each of which contains a depiction of an ossuarium kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill. The upper left quadrant contains a round ossuarium decorated with a hunting scene on the side and a bird on the cover; the other three quadrants contain square ossuaria with Latin inscriptions and various decorations
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 105 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Urns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Ossuarium - 3 square, 1 round] [art original].
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1824]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Wash drawing depicting one of the ossuaria kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill. The sides of the ossuarium are decorated with images of rams' heads and a hunting scene involving a lion running from men with bows and arrows; the cover is topped with a perched eagle
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 90 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections and Urns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Round ossuarium with a bird on the cover] [art original].
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1824]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing depicting a green urn or vase with two handles that was apparently owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill. Perhaps the large, damaged glass urn that was found near London and given to Horace Walpole by Dr. Charles Lyttelton, Bishop of Carlisle
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 33 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Glassware and Urns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Urn with two handles] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of various containers sitting on an ornate mantel or shelf. Possibly drawn from life at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham; alternatively, it could be a design drawing for the villa
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., With several pencil sketches of a man's arm on verso., and Formerly laid in at page 97 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):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Containers, Vases, Urns, and Mantels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Urns, jugs and vases] [art original].