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11.
Horace Walpole as described by Miss Hawkins [art original]

Creator:
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Horace Walpole, full length, facing right, stooped forward slightly with bent knees, walking on tiptoe; wearing a lavender suit and tan stockings; holding a tricorne in front of him, his curled white wig exposed; woodwork, a vase, and a fr...
Description:
Title written below image.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Horace Walpole as described by Miss Hawkins [art original]

12.
"Stage coaches pass by the door every day" [art original]

Creator:
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a stagecoach driving to the left down a dirt road, the four horse team in full gallop. Two passengers ride on top of the coach along with the driver and bugler; several passengers inside can be seen through the windows. Trees line the road,...
Description:
Title written below image.
Subject (Topic):
Roads and Stagecoaches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "Stage coaches pass by the door every day" [art original]

13.
"A 'park wall' and 'back parlour'" [art original]

Creator:
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Collection Title:
Volume 12, page 214. Horace Walpole and his world.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing with two scenes: 'the back parlour" in an oval within a larger rectangular view of a 'park wall'. The park wall is covered in ivy and at its base, lush ferns and other plants and mushrooms, ferns and at the top a stand of trees. The oval inset...
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation by Horace Walpole's letter to Miss Berry December 1793: "A park-wall with ivy on it and fern near it, and a back parlour in London in summer, with a dead creeper and a couple of sooty sparrows, are my strong...
Subject (Topic):
Parlors, Garden walls, Casement windows, and Depression (Mental state)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "A 'park wall' and 'back parlour'" [art original]

14.
"The modest charms of English scenery" [art original]

Creator:
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Composite image, set against a gray background pattern with images of leaves, flowers, and birds, including ten small rectangular views of English scenery, some drawn to overlap and partially obscure others. The scenes include: a view of a bridge and ...
Description:
Title written at bottom of image.
Subject (Topic):
Nature, Plants, Bodies of water, Cities & towns, and Dwellings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "The modest charms of English scenery" [art original]

15.
"The archbishop of Gil Blas" [art original]

Creator:
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor drawing of the fictional archbishop in Lesage's novel Gil Blas; bust length, turned slightly right; overweight, with white hair and bushy white eyebrows; wearing a mitre, pectoral cross, and chasuble
Description:
Title written below image.
Subject (Name):
Le Sage, Alain René, 1668-1747.
Subject (Topic):
Bishops and Clergy
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "The archbishop of Gil Blas" [art original]

16.
"The arch" at Stowe [art original]

Creator:
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Collection Title:
Volume 5, page 189. Horace Walpole and his world.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An imagined view, based on Horace Walpole's description, of the arch at Stowe that was erected in honor of Princess Amelia. The trestled arch, covered in ivy or other greenery, rises up at the center of the image, a medallion of the princess at its ap...
Description:
Title written below image.
Subject (Topic):
Estates, Arches, and Monuments & memorials
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "The arch" at Stowe [art original]

17.
"Enjoying the verdure and silent waves" [art original]

Creator:
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pastoral view of a lush riverbank covered in trees, shrubs, and flowers, and other greenery. A man sits on a rock near the shore and looks to the right out over the water. A house on the opposite bank can be seen in the distance on the right; gray c...
Description:
Title written below image. A quotation from Horace Walpole's letter 16 October 1769 to Madame du Deffand: I feel myself here like a swan, that, after living six weeks in a nasty pool upon a common, is got back into its own Thames. I do nothing but plu...
Subject (Topic):
Rivers and Nature
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "Enjoying the verdure and silent waves" [art original]

18.
"On the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor" [art original]

Creator:
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of the dream of Horace Walpole that inspired him to write The castle of Otranto. The fantastic scene involves a large armored hand perched atop an enormous staircase ascending four levels within a Gothic castle. Two suits of armor stand guar...
Description:
Title written below image.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Stairways, Hands, and Armor
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "On the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor" [art original]

19.
In the time of Watteau [art original]

Creator:
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a woman, full length, standing next to a table on which a mirror and a vase of flowers sit; dressed in early eighteenth-century French attire, her hair up and topped with feathers; holding a rose in her right hand and a hairbrush(?) in her ...
Description:
Title written below image.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > In the time of Watteau [art original]

20.
"A rainbow on a dark cloud falling precisely behind the tower of a neighboring church" [art

Creator:
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of a church steeple rising above a lush stand of trees in the foreground and middle distance, the arc of a rainbow directly behind the cross at its top and across the width of the drawing; with dark clouds above. On the hills on the right a to...
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation from Horace Walpole's letter to George Montagu, written in May, 1763: We walked to the Belvidere on the summit of the hill, where a theatrical storm only served to heighten the beauty of the landscape, a rai...
Subject (Topic):
Steeples and Rainbows
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "A rainbow on a dark cloud falling precisely behind the tower of a neighboring church" [art original]

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