A rotund gentleman holds out a long scroll of paper which stretches from above his head to near the floor. A conversely skinny gentleman sits at a table with a look of shock holding out both hands in alarm, saying [the text in ink]: ‘What the Devil do...
Volume 2, page 158a. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four designs showing partial decorative borders, probably those of the 16th-century illuminated psalter of Don Giulio Clovio, owned by Horace Walpole and sold in lot 90 on the fifteenth day of the 1842 Strawberry Hill Sale
An album of sketches largely comprised of images drawn by a traveller in central and southern France in the late 1820s and early 1830s. The images, executed in a variety of media and styles, are mostly skillfully drawn landscapes, elevations of buildi...
Description:
In French and English, with some Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
France, England, France., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Buildings, structures, etc, Drawing, British, Monuments & memorials, and Castles & palaces