Detailed plan of the grounds, buildings, and gardens at Strawberry Hill, as viewed from above. The boundaries of Horace Walpole's property are delineated with a red dotted line, and the roads and properties immediately adjacent are shown. Some feature...
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink at bottom of sheet.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"View of a mansion, with wall and gate in front, figures in the foreground including a man making a drawing of the house and another walking to the left with a dog behind him, sheep grazing to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gentlemans seat on Stockwell Common, Surrey
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Vivarès, Thomas, approximately 1735-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 March 1778]
Call Number:
Babb-Beckford no. 118++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A view of the Fort William estate belonging to William Beckford near Savannah la Marr, with the river in the foreground crossed by bridge and figures driving donkeys at the right, buildings beyond, and a house nestled in a hillside in the background;...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published March 25th, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Vivarès, Thomas, approximately 1735-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 March 1778]
Call Number:
Babb-Beckford no. 117++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of an estate with blacks (slaves) leading an oxcart, carrying sugar canes, walking with basket on head, and leading a horse. Includes dwellings, outbuildings, and mill buildings (?). Also includes (Beckford?) coat of arms."--John Carter Brown Li...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published March 25th, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Vivarès, Thomas, approximately 1735-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 March 1778]
Call Number:
Babb-Beckford no. 116++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of an estate with blacks (slaves) leading an oxcart, carrying sugar canes, walking with basket on head, and leading a horse. Includes dwellings, outbuildings, and mill buildings (?). Also includes (Beckford?) coat of arms."--John Carter Brown Li...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published March 25th, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
"A small wooden bridge over a broad river with rapids, between banks with rich foliage, and a group on the right bank, a woman gathering a sheet, a man with a broad hat and another sitting."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published March 25th, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
"View of the spring-head of Roaring River on the estate of William Beckford, surrounded by trees with cattle wading to front, where a kneeling man hands fruit from a basket to a standing woman; no. 5 from a series."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Mar. 25th, 1778, by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
A.D. MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number:
Drawer Topos Ox98 no. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The front half of a chapel, seen from the side, with a low wall to the left, trees, and a structure in the distance to the right; below the image are two columns of verse describing the history of the structure"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the ruins of the chapel at Stanton-Harcourt in the county of Oxford
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Societati Antiquariorum Londinensi dono dedit Simon Comes de Harcourt Socius
Subject (Geographic):
England, Oxfordshire., Oxfordshire (England), and Stanton Harcourt (England)
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
A.D. MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number:
Drawer Topos Ox98 no. 6
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A ruined building on the right with a pyramidical roof and a small square turret on the near left corner, with other buildings extending from it on the right and a large tree in the foreground, a barrow in the left foreground on a broad path leading ...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Societati Antiquariorum Londinensi dono dedit Simon Comes de Harcourt Socius
Subject (Geographic):
England, Oxfordshire., Oxfordshire (England), and Stanton Harcourt (England)
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.
