- Creator:
- Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1789]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3678.40+ (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of Little Strawberry Hill, home of Lady Diana Beauclerk, looking from the north(?) across the lawns, the house is shown in the shadows on the right while in the distance on the left is the Thames River. On the left in the foreground a gentleman walks on the stile to cross the fence near a large tree on the other side of which begins a stone wall along the bottom of the property
- Alternative Title:
- Little Marble Hill
- Description:
- Title inscribed in right corner within the French mount., Inscribed in lower right corner of image with the artist's name and date., Alternative title devised by curator., Printed label pasted on verso: "Strawberry Hill by J.C. Barrow, comissioned by Horace Walpole, signed J.C. Barrow, 1789." A line has been drawn through the words "Strawberry Hill"., Probably a preliminary sketch for a drawing that was used in Horace Walpole extra-illustrated copy of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Folio 49 2522)., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Possibly part of the collection of drawings described as no. 3678 by A.T. Hazen in Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library and dispersed at the Strawberry Hill sale, viii, lot 154., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Little Strawberry Hill [art original]
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- Creator:
- Middiman, Samuel, approximately 1750-1831, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1777]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three figures in a garden: a woman standing with a parasol, a man looking through a telescope, another woman seated; a large tree on the left; a house behind the figures; two women seated on a bench next to the house"--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Early (proof?) state of a plate published in Copper-plate magazine with the title "Twickenham Meadows, Middlesex." For the later state with additional details added to the building and figures and with re-etched title, publication line and statements of responsibility, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,0712.874., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 249 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.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs Feb. 1, 77, by Harrison and Co., No. 18 Paternoster Row, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Houses, and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Twickenham Meadows, in Middlesex, the seat of Lady Diana Beauclerk [graphic]
- Creator:
- Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1789]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing of Lady Diana Beauclerk's house, known as Little Marble Hill, in Twickenham. The white house is visible at right, atop a small hill and partially obscured by a tree. The lawn with scattered trees extends outward from the house to the left, with a low brick or stone wall and part of a wooden fence visible in the foreground. The Thames, with a single sailboat on it, can barely be seen in the distance through the trees. A few pinkish clouds fill the sky near the horizon
- Description:
- Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand. and Formerly laid in 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):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of the villa of Lady Diana Beauclerc at Twickenham [art original]
- Creator:
- Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1789]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing of Lady Diana Beauclerk's house, known as Little Marble Hill, in Twickenham. The white house is visible at left in the middle distance, viewed through an opening between two stands of trees. A woman sits on a stool and milks a cow in the field in the foreground; another cow lies on the grass nearby. To the right is the Thames, on which a sailboat and a rowboat travel; a man with a cane stands on the bank and looks out at the three men in the rowboat. The far bank of the river is visible in the distance; a few pinkish clouds fill the sky
- Description:
- Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand. and Formerly laid in 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):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of the villa of Lady Diana Beauclerc at Twickenham [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:
- View of Lady Diana Beauclerk's house, known as Little Marble Hill, in Twickenham. The white house stands in the background on the right, partially obscured by a tree; a white picket fence runs along the side of the house; a large tree stands in the center foreground, next to the river; at left is the Thames with a man fishing from a boat
- 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., Possibly drawn after a drawing by Samuel Lysons that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Red Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 223 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):
- Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Houses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [View of Lady Diana Beauclerk's villa] [art original].