- Creator:
- Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1789?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3678.7
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Inscription in Thomas Kirgate's hand on verso (not visible): "Cottage at Strawberry Hill, by J.C. Barrow.", Note in pencil in a later hand: "Bedford's copy of the Description, has (no. 36) aquatint from this as one of the "Views added"; he says in his list there that it was an aquatint by Barrow, engr. Parkyns. (Slight difference in his print: figs. in front + none under tree, but unmistakably this is the drawing for it).", Numbered on verso, in pencil: "No. H"., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Jospeh Charles Barrow, English artist, active 1789-1802., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, structures, etc and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cottage at Strawberry Hill [art original]
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- Creator:
- Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1758]
- Call Number:
- SH Views M92 no. 5 Box 110
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill in Twickenham from the view in the southeast
- Alternative Title:
- East view of Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex
- Description:
- Title inscribed by artist below image; signed and dated by the artist lower right of image., On verso in contemporary hand: Strawberry Hill en Middlesex maison de campagne de Mr. Horace Walpole. Added in pencil is a note (in French) giving biographical information on Walpole and noting that this drawing was likely to have been intended as a print, citing the presence of pinpricks that outline some of the buildings., and Johann Heinrich (or John Henry) Müntz (1727-1798), painter and architect, engaged by Walpole to paint at Strawberry Hill . He created a series of topographical drawings and copied old masters, but relations were broken off in late 1759 after a quarrel.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Houses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > East view of Strawberry-hill near Twickenham in Middlesex [art original]
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- Creator:
- Chute, John, 1701-1776
- Published / Created:
- [1753]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3490
- Image Count:
- 173
- Abstract:
- A collection of approximately 130 drawings and sketches by John Chute and one etching and engraving entitled Chaucer's Grove by P. Mazell (artist James Pettit Andrews) given to Horace Walpole, for his renovation of Strawberry Hill, bound in one volume and with an additional 23 loose leaves, including sketches for the Gallery, Round Tower, and one inspired by a doorcase in Dugdale's St. Paul's for the presses in the Library. Some of the drawings have been annotated by Walpole and/or Thomas Kirgate
- Alternative Title:
- Original drawings and sketches
- Description:
- Title from ms. title page in Horace Walpole's hand., Title from Hazen: Original drawings and sketches., In English., John Chute (1701-1776), English architect and connoisseur of the arts and literature, member of Horace Walpole's 'Strawberry committee.', Bound in original marbled boards., Inscribed on front fly leaf: "Lady Waldegrave from W.V. Harcourt, July 5, 1887.", On front pastedown, Carlingford's bookplate., Marble boards with half-leather. Written in ink in unidentified hand on front cover: Strawberry Hill (drawings). Paper lable on spine: "33.", The 3 volumes consist of 1 album and 2 cases., and Original marbled boards. Second Strawberry Hill Sale fleuron used as bookplate. Press-mark K.13, but moved to the Closet. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; probably kept in the Glass Closet until 1790. Inscribed on the fly-leaf: 'Lady Waldegrave from W.V. Harcourt, July 6, 1867.' Bookplate of Lord Carlingford, who married Lady Waldegrave in 1863.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Country homes, and Buildings, structures, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Slight sketches of architecture by John Chute, Esq., of the Vine in Hampshire,1753 [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:
- Watercolor drawing of the real-life Castle of Otranto in Italy. The gray structure is seen in the middle distance beyond a low stone wall, one branch of which extends towards the viewer in the right foreground. Blue-tinted mountains are visible in the far distance on either side of the castle. A green lawn occupies the rest of the foreground; a blue sky strewn with white clouds completes the top half of the image
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image., 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., The original drawing by Willey Reveley, of which this is a copy, was kept by Horace Walpole in the Small Closet at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 255 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 (Geographic):
- Otranto (Italy), Italy, and Otranto.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, structures, etc and Castles & palaces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > South view of the Castle of Otranto with the Acroceraunian Mountains of Epirus in the distance copied from a drawing made in March 1785 by Mr. Reveley, given to Mr. Walpole by Lady Craven. [art original]
- Creator:
- Tringham, C., artist
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1789]
- Call Number:
- SH Views B278 no. 6 Box 100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Inscribed with the title in unidentified hand below image: "The cottage at Strawberry Hill.", Inscribed with the artist's name in lower left corner below image: "Carne. Tringham ex.", and Amatuer copy after 1789 watercolor by J.C. Barrow's "The Cottage"?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, structures, etc, Architecture, Domestic, Dwellings, and Houses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cottage at Strawberry Hill [art original]