Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
Description:
Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
Description:
Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Drawing of the view from Chomondeley Walk on the River Thames, with Richmond Hill rising in the distance. The busy walk is seen at left, with pedestrians and several dogs traveling in both directions. In the foreground a man pulls a small boat loaded with passengers towards the bank; further offshore a woman and two men travel in a rowboat. Other small boats and several swans are visible further down the river, which curves to the right and is lined with buildings on its far bank. Clouds and birds fill the sky above
Description:
Title written in brown ink below image., Signed with initials by the artist below image, in lower left., Approximate date from a similar drawing by Heckel in The Lewis Walpole Library: A view from Richmond Hill up the River Thames., 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)
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, George Cholmondeley, Earl of, 1703-1770
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
Inscriptions: Title at top of sheet, scale drawn in below image., Artist's name inscribed by Horace Walpole, recto lower left corner: Rt Adam Archt 1768., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and With an ownership stamp in red ink: A.C.
A collection of prints and drawings probably assembled in the late 1830s or early 1840s, although the drawings may have been executed earlier. The wash drawings by Agnes Berry are of mostly Italian sites in Genoa, Florence, Naples, Rome, and Nice with one drawing of Mont Cenis in France. The lithographs are more varied in theme and include: two engravings after paintings by Raphael, possibly removed from an illustrated book; etchings and lithographs of carriages and coaches; lithographs of buildings; a group of four etchings by Henry Monnier and two lithographs by Delpach; and nine etchings and engravings of contemporary actors and actresses in theatrical costumes. All images have been mounted and most have been captioned, probaby by Margret Graves
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger., Bound in green morocco with gold tooling and initials MG [i.e. Margret Graves]., Dedication page: wash drawing with inscription "Margret Graves from Agnes Berry"., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Carriages & coaches, and Costumes
Watercolor drawing of the chapel on the grounds of Horace Walpole's estate Strawberry Hill, in Twickenham, Middlesex, before the completion of the approach
Description:
Title written in unknown contemporary hand at bottom of sheet, below image., Chapel completed in 1773. A 1784 print of the chapel shows later development of the approach to the chapel with a curved walk and garden ornaments. Date of ca. 1785 suggested by Michael Snodin., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Unknown artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Wash drawing depicting a rectangular section of ceiling at Strawberry Hill, with Gothic tracery running longitudinally in parallel rows
Alternative Title:
Ceiling under the stairs
Description:
Titled in Thomas Kirgate's hand below image on mounting page; part of the word "cieling" has been rubbed from sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., and Mounted on page 3 (formerly B) 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):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Architectural decorations & ornaments, and Ceilings
Elevation of a Cottage for the Honorable Horace Walpole, near Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title at top of sheet, scale drawn in below image., Artist's name inscribed by Horace Walpole, recto lower left corner: Robt Adam Architect 1766., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: (London Sale, Lot 1248): Ditto [drawings] Views of Strawberry Hill and of the Villa of Lady Diana Beauclerc at Twickenham, by J. Barrow, 1789, and 4 designs for a Cottage, etc. at Strawberry Hill, by Robert Adams, architect, 1767, etc."
Inscription on verso, in ink: "Entrance of the villa at Strawberry Hill. E.E. 1781.", Signed and dated lower right corner of image: "E.E. 1781"., Numbered in pencil on verso: "No. J"., Note in pencil in unknown hand: "The print of this in the Description, 1784 has slight differences: pot with shrub missing, includes more at right, + top. This is surely Edward's original watercolor for the famous print however.", Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.