"The "Bedroom of the heart of Voltaire" in Ferney: a bedroom with alcove bed on the far right, portraits hung on the walls, and to the left a pyramid-shaped altar in an alcove; ... with small bust of Voltaire in the lower margin."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the original engraving
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate from: Le Livre; revue du monde littéraire. Paris, A. Quantin [etc.], v. 6 (10 October 1885)., Printer's statement in lower left; periodical name and number in lower right: Le Livre, VIe. année., Photoengraved reproduction of a 1781 print by François Denis Née after a drawing by Gaspard Duché de Vancy; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1870,1008.910., and Text reproduced from original engraving: "Dessiné par Duché, d'après nature au Chateau de Ferney en 1781" beneath lower left corner of image; "Gravé par Neé" beneath lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
Imp. A. Quantin
Subject (Geographic):
France and Ferney-Voltaire.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778 and Château de Ferney (Ferney-Voltaire, France)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, and Portraits
Opposite page 1. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the east front of Strawberry Hill, looking from the Thames. A gentleman and lady converse on the left. On the right a workman tends the lawn with a scythe
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher and date of publication from contemporary manuscript note "From The weekly miscellany no. 11, 1772, very inaccurately taken" in upper margin. The weekly miscellany was a continuation, from 1773 onward, of: An appendix to the Sherborne mercury, or, The weekly magazine. [Sherborne] : [R. Goadby], 1772-., Plate from: An appendix to the Sherborne mercury, or, The weekly magazine. [Sherborne] : [R. Goadby], 1772., A later state of the plate, with volume number added in upper left, was published in: New display of the beauties of England. London : R. Goadby, 1773., Sheet trimmed to / within plate mark., "P. 22"--Above image in upper right., Cf. Gascoigne, B. Images of Twickenham. Richmond-upon-Thames : Saint Helena Press, 1981, 254., Mounted opposite page 1 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3., and Inlaid to 27 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
R. Goadby
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
"View inside the grand conservatory; plants growing to either side of a central paved walkway, pillars supporting roof, a fountain at far end by entrance."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: La Belle assemblée, new series v. 4 (August 1811)., Text preceding imprint: Engraved exclusively for La Belle assemblee., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Folded to 25.8 x 16 cm; mounted to 27.1 x 20.9 cm., and Mounted opposite page 268 in volume 4 part 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
Published by John Bell, Southampton Str. Strand, London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Carlton House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Greenhouses, Plants, Fountains, Ceilings, Columns, and Windows
