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- Creator:
- Woollett, William, 1735-1785, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [July 1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 'Perspective of Architecture' (1761); landscape
- Alternative Title:
- Frontispiece
- Description:
- Kirby's Perspective of architecture.
- Publisher:
- Joshua Kirby
- Subject (Topic):
- Architecture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to Kirby's Perspective of architecture] [graphic]
3.
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1755]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 42 Box 3
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Unexecuted design for chimney-piece for Wentworth Castle in Yorkshire, with scale and measurements and notes on the design. In a letter dated 27 March 1755 Walpole wrote to Bentley, "Your chimney is come, but not to honour: The caryatides are fine and free, but the rest is heavy: Lord Strafford is not at all struck with it, and thinks it old-fashioned. It certainly tastes of Indigo Jones. Your myrtles I have seen in their pots, and they are magnificent, but I fear very sickly."
- Description:
- Title written in ink by Horace Walpole on mount below drawing., Partial watermark on the right edge, trimmed., and Formerly mounted on leaf 42 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
- Subject (Topic):
- Chimneypieces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Design for a chimney in the style of architecture in the reign of James the First [art original].
- Creator:
- Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [5 July 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.07.05.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Artemis -- Architecture: bridges.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd July 5, 1792, by I.F. Tomkins, No. 49 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Artemis (Greek deity)
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Chastity extinguishing the flame of love [graphic]
- Creator:
- Peckitt, William, 1731-1795, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1762]
- Call Number:
- sh-000329 Object Room
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- three-dimensional form
- Abstract:
- The portion of the stained glass that was formerly at the top of the five windows in the Gallery, which includes the quarterings of the Family of Walpole, embellished by a variety of old mosaic glass. Formerly located in the Gallery of Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: The beautiful old stained glass at the top of the five windows in the Gallery, which includes all the quarterings of the Family of Walpole, very rich in colour, and embellished by a variety of fine old mosaic glass, the size of each, 3 feet 6 inches wide by 1 foot 6 inches high., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Stained glass panel with Walpole coat of arms] [realia].
6.
- 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:
- Chute, John, 1701-1776
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1756]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3490 no. 70
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- One large pencil drawing showing new designs for the wings of Chute's home in Hampshire. On the verso are two smaller sketches of the same
- Description:
- John Chute (1701-1776), English architect and connoisseur of the arts and literature, member of Horace Walpole's 'committee of taste.' and Originally laid in: Slight architectural sketches by John Chute, Box 1.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Chute, John, 1701-1776 and Vyne (Hampshire, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Country homes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Vyne, Hampshire, elevation of alterations proposed to wings [art original].
- Creator:
- Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1754 and 1780]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- ; architecture behind at right; proof before letters
- Description:
- Title and state from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.2309., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted on leaf numbered 35 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Sold by Ryland & Bryer Engravers & Printsellers, at the Kings Arms in Cornhill
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Miss Harrison] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Society of Artists of Great Britain
- Published / Created:
- 1768]
- Call Number:
- 49 3885.2 v.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Final page blank., Signatures: [A]-D²., Not in ESTC., Lewis Walpole Library 49 3885.2 v.1: No. 19 in a bound collection of catalogues, owned by Horace Walpole, with notes in an unidentified hand. Also with a drawing of a man playing a violin, possibly by Horace Walpole, in pen and ink over graphite., LWL: Ms copy, laid in Graves' collection of catalogues., and Bound to 25 cm.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Subject (Name):
- Society of Artists of Great Britain
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, designs in architecture, models, drawings, prints, &c. : which the Society of Artists of Great-Britain have the honour to exhibibit [sic] to His Majesty the King of Denmark at their room in Spring-Garden, September the thirtieth 1768
10.
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1758 and 1760?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 58 Box 4
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Designs for the chapel tribune at Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex. On the recto a wash drawing of the interior vaults with additions in pencil. On the verso a rough sketch of the floor plan
- Description:
- British drawings for architecture, decoration
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Chapels and Floor plans
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > First idea for the Chapel Tribune at Strawberry Hill but rejected tho beautifull, because it must have been too large or too small [art original].