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)
"Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "Th...
Description:
Title inscribed in brown ink below image.
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, and Constitutional Society (London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy
Collection Title:
Page 4a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of one of the chairs, designed in a Gothic style by Richard Bentley and Horace Walpole, that were in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 42a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of one of two small Welsh armchairs kept by Horace Walpole in the Star Chamber at Strawberry Hill. The support posts of the chair are painted with alternating blue and white bands; the triangular seat has a cushion of blue-gray point lace. Cen...
Alternative Title:
Welsh armed chair
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1799]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 9 Box D170
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A plebeian family of 'cits' drive in a rough two-wheeled cart (aping a fashionable gig) drawn by a clumsy carthorse. The man drives, wearing cocked hat and top-boots; his wife, wearing large feathers in her small straw cap, holds up a fan. Both are ab...
Alternative Title:
Road to ruin in the east!!
Description:
Title and artist's signature inscribed below image in black ink.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Families, and Newspaper carriers
A father and son of African descent, drawn full-length and holding hands are dressed identically: long blue coats, black hats with the brim pulled down just above the eyes, yellow gloves, and holding brown umbrellas
Description:
Title from caption inscribed in black ink below drawing.
A courtroom scene with solicitors and jury snickering and laughing in response to a witty pun the judge offered following the defendent's plea for mercy. The criminal on trial in the far right is dishevled and dressed in the style of a sailor. The jud...
Description:
Title from pen and ink caption inscribed below image.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Courtrooms, Criminals, Judges, Judicial proceedings, and Lawyers
Drawn frontispiece to A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... at Strawberry-Hill ... . A structure of Gothic design is depicted, with the abridged title of the book at its center. Alcoves in the structure hold statues on either side of ti...
Description:
Title written in ink and gold paint at center of design.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 3 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A drawing of four scenes, with caricatured figures with large heads and very small bodies. Upper left: A man with a monocle (right) inquires of the butler on a threshold with pillar to his left, "Is your master within. No Mr. Smallfeast he's gone out ...
Description:
Title from captions written each image.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Butlers, Clergy, Congregations, Soldiers, British, and Sleeping
Opposite page 23. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait, full-length seated, with her arms folded and resting on a table, rosary beads in front of her; turned slightly left but looking back towards the right. After Hogarth's painting of Sarah Malcolm is in the National Gallery of Scotland
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image, on mounting page.
A witch flying to the left on a broomstick and suckling a cat, discharges a blast of "inflammable air" towards a large sphere suspended midair behind her. A spectator standing below holds a torch to the stream of air and says, "How blue it burns!" An...
Description:
Title from inscription in black ink in the artist's hand above image.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Balloons (Aircraft), Witches, and Spectators
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 22 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An innkeeper uses a bellows to clear heavy dense tobacco smoke from the tavern interior in response to a servant trying to identify his master in the crowd. The innkeeper proclaims "You say you want a little gentlemen in a brown wig. I have really so ...
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand.
Subject (Topic):
Smoking, Tobacco pipes, Bellows, Taverns (Inns), and Servants
An old woman dressed in her nightcap and gown, her one breast hanging exposed from her gown, climbs into bed in which her husband already lies. She expels gas from her bottom in the direction of the candle on the ground in front of the fireplace with ...
Description:
Title from note in artist's hand above image.
Subject (Topic):
Bed, Boxes, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Cats, Corsets, Couples, Fireplaces, Flatulence, Single women, and Sleepwear
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1792?]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 16 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the same figure repeated in four sections in two rows. In each panel the man feigns unselfishness while slowly and subtly pocketing a bank note. Each panel is captioned in black ink: Indeed sir 'tis too much!; I can't think of taking it; Si...
Alternative Title:
Physical delicacy
Description:
Title in black ink below image 'A physical progress of a bank note!!' later crossed out with graphite pencil and revised to 'Physical delicacies'.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 9 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A group of twelve man and women of various ages and walks of live -- tradesmen, a clergy, a spinster, a military officer, a gentleman in shackles, a servant, a frail, sickly man, etc. -- stand full length facing the viewer. Above their heads are brief...
Alternative Title:
Human nature delineated
Description:
Title from caption in artist's hand written below image.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Distress, Men, Military officers, Occupations, and Women
Drawing of the view from Chomondeley Walk on the River Thames, with Richmond Hill rising in the distance. The busy walk is seen at left, with pedestrians and several dogs traveling in both directions. In the foreground a man pulls a small boat loaded ...
Description:
Title written in brown ink below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond upon Thames (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, George Cholmondeley, Earl of, 1703-1770
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1790?]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 13 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men in coats engage in a terse exchange. One of the individuals holds a newspaper where the front page headline reads 'Peace' and asks "Who brought it about" The second man responds "I don't know!!
Alternative Title:
Deep politicians
Description:
Title inscribed below image in black ink in the artist's hand.
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. November 1768]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A tracing of an etching that reproduces in a general way the design of "A scene of a pantamime entertainment lately exhibitied (British Museum satire no. 4220) with some additions and variations
Illustration of the interior of the House of Lords during the trial of Queen Caroline, consort of George IV. Seated around a table in the center are the Queen, the Judges, the Bishops, the Lord Chancellor, the Attorney General (Sir R. Gifford), the So...
Description:
Title from text above and below image.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1st, 1820, by H. Rowe, 2 Amen Corner
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,, Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826,, Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820,, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854,, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868,, and Lushington, Stephen, 1782-1873,
Subject (Topic):
Trials, litigation, etc, Judicial proceedings, Adultery, and Divorce
Watercolor drawing of a caricatured tailor standing in profile to the left revealing an enormous paunch. He stands before a railing on a boardwalk with the ocean waves below. He desperately clutches a small girl in his left arm, a cane between his le...
Alternative Title:
Embarras des richesses
Description:
Title from ms. caption inscribed below drawing.
Subject (Geographic):
Brighton (England),
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Girls, Sewing equipment & supplies, Tailors, Wigs, and Winds
On recto: One of three designs for a Chinese garden building. This drawing shows the elevation. None of the drawings were executed. On verso: a pencil sketches with figures
Alternative Title:
Triangular Chinese house designed for the Right Honorable Henry Fox
On recto: One of three designs for a Chinese garden building. This drawing shows the elevation. None of the drawings were executed. On verso: a pencil sketches with figures
Alternative Title:
Triangular Chinese house designed for the Right Honorable Henry Fox
A view of the avenue in front of Strawberry Hill, looking through the arch of trees overhead, towards the Thames. A gentleman assists a lady as she steps over the stile into the road. On the left two workmen walk away, one with a scythe over his shoul...
Alternative Title:
View down the avenue at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham
Description:
Title from inscription below image.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Drawing of the view from Richmond Hill, with the Thames in the distance surrounded by fields and rows of trees. Two boats are on the river; people and horses are visible in the fields. On the road in the foreground are several men on horseback, a stro...
Description:
Title written in brown ink below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond upon Thames (London, England) and Thames River (England),
Subject (Topic):
Rivers, Sailboats, Carriages & coaches, Pedestrians, and Horseback riding
A design by Bentley of a landscape with upright hills on the right and left and in the middle distance, with a line of trees on the ridge in the middle distance and on the path through the hills in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Landscape with upright rocks
Description:
Title, artist, and date from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso.
A design by Bentley showing a scene from Book IV Canto V, in the House of Care where Scudamore is kept awake and miserable by the clanging and pinching of blacksmiths
Alternative Title:
Road in Jersey
Description:
Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the mount in his portfolio of Bentley's drawings.
A drawing consisting of two panels. The left panel, "A Visit to my Uncle" depicts two women, one of a lower class than the other, visiting an elderly man, a money-lender, who is standing behind a counter. Instruments, possibly of gold, rest on the cou...
A tracing by George Steevens of a print by Willaim Hogarth: Theatre stage with two dancers; on the left a woman (La Barbarina) jumps with her legs apart and on the right a man (George Desnoyer) stands with his legs together; on either side a chorus, ...
Alternative Title:
Charmers of the age
Description:
Title from item.
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barberina, 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
Subject (Topic):
Dancers, German, Italian, and Theatrical productions
An ugly man in old-fashioned dress stands full-face, toes turned in, squinting, and looking downwards. An 'Address' is in his right hand, his left hand is in his breeches pocket; a document inscribed 'Observations' protrudes from his coat-pocket. His ...
Alternative Title:
Deputy Pendulum's motion for an address
Description:
Title from words written around the face of the clock.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Freedom of speech, Petition, Right of, Sedition, Politics and government, Clocks & watches, City council members, Hearing aids, Sleeping, Public speaking, and Yawning
Portrait of Adriaen Hanneman (c.1604-1671), Dutch portrait painter, who lived in London from 1626 until around 1640 when he returned to The Hague. He had a long career painting portraits of exiled English royalists and the Dutch court as well as other...
Description:
Title from inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower left: Adrian Hanneman Pictor
Portrait of Adriaen van Diest (1655-1704), born in The Hague, immigrated to England when he was 17 and remained there, active as a landscape painter of views of England in the western parts landscapes, chiefly in the Italian manner
Description:
Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 129.
A busy scene in a farm yard. In the left foreground a woman (Aestas?) sits on a rock, while at her feet a woman spoons soup from a large bowl. She leans toward the boy at her side who holds a full soup bowl in his hands. To her left a young man approa...
Description:
Title written in brown ink above image, some letters very faint: Æstas.
A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. A lanky man attempts to dance with a corpulent woman but steps on her dress hem in the process
Pen and ink drawing divided into two parts, with an alderman on the left and a chamberlain on the right, framed in a elaborate border (suggesting a tent or fortress) of checkerboard and geometric designs. The stout alderman, spoon and fork in hand, we...
Alternative Title:
Chamberlain
Description:
Title in artist's hand at top of design; artist signature and date inscribed in pen and black ink below image. Subtitle in banner below design.
Alecto, a fantastic hag, stands outside the Crown and Anchor tavern between a diminutive Sheridan (left), playing a fife, and Fox (right), a burly drummer, both wearing regimentals. She towers above them, holding a long pike surmounted by a cap of 'Li...
Alternative Title:
Recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution's Service, Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonium, and Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonuim, or, The recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution Service
Description:
Title inscribed in brown ink below image.
Subject (Name):
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Revolution Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Drums (Musical instruments), Demons, Witches, and Fire
Portrait drawing of Afonso de Albuquerque; bust length, turned slightly left; with a long beard; wearing a black hat; the hilt of a sword just visible at bottom of image
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 54 Box D305
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Ten figures arranged in two rows depicting dwarfs or 'Lilliputians' dressed and acting in a variety of roles indicated by a respective caption: A Lilliputian actress; a Lilliputian candidate; a Lilliputian voter; a Lilliputian woman of fashion; a Lill...
Description:
Title from ink inscription in the artist's hand below image.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 40 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A footman leads a parson and six prospective suitors that have arrived in response to an advertisement for a husband posted by an 'old maid'. The bachelors include a Welshman, a Scotsman, and a doctor that offer flatteries while waiting, "Splutter hur...
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image.
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Cats, Hearing aids, Marriage proposals, Older people, and Single women
Drawing of one side of an ivory comb that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill. Rows of teeth run along the upper and lower edges on the comb; a decorative motif runs along the right and left edges. In the center of the...
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1805]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 44 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man riding horseback has a significant accident that topples the horse and throws the rider forward against the horse's neck and head losing his hat and wig in the process. A caption above the image informs: This I pressume is by way of proving to a...
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand.
A copy of an illiterate bricklayer's bill that was written with pictographs; the artist included a narrative description of its meaning below the image. The pictographs included three different sized stick-figures (two men and one boy), a four-square ...
Description:
Title from text inscribed with black ink within image.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1798]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 35 Box D210
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly woman questions a man dressed in a curious combination of professional military uniform and shopkeeper's attire with an apron tide around his waist and a musket propped against his shoulder. The woman exclaims, "Thee looks't very genteel in...
Description:
Title from inscriptrion in black ink below image.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Stores & shops, Commerce, Soldiers, Military uniforms, and Dogs
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wash drawing of the curfew, or couvre-feu, from Mr. Gostling's collection that was kept by Horace Walpole in the fireplace of the Library at Strawberry Hill
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not before 1791]
Call Number:
Drawings H263 no. 4 Box D125
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A portrait of the French Protestant Minister, Andre Lortie, shown half-length. He is wearing the clothing of a clergyman and holds open a book. The background includes a curtain and the outline of a landscape view. Unfinished portrait with only the f...
Description:
Inscription in ink on verso: A facsimile from the most rare original messotinto in the collection of the Honble Horatio Walpole at Strawberry Hill Nov. 3rd 1791 by Mr Harding and J:B?
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 110. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Ann Bransom, Horace Walpole's housekeeper at Strawberry Hill who gave tours of the house; head only, turned three-quarters left; wearing a bonnet
Alternative Title:
Ann Bransom, the woman that shows Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Ann Countess Temple as an older woman, in profile facing left wearing simple yet luxurious dress using a lace strap and neck band and ruffles for decoration
