Horace Walpole's sketches for the design of the ceiling in his library at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., A drawing in Horace Walpole's hand, with the date 1754 integrated in the design and sent with a letter dated 17 March 1754 to Bentley from his home in London on Arlington Street. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 35, p. 171., and Horace Walpole (1717-1797), author, politician, and patron of the arts.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Houses, Estates, and Libraries (Rooms)
"View of the grand house fronting the Thames, seen from the river; barges and other boats in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Maison du Comte de Radnor a Twickenham
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on the separation of John and Carington Bowles's names in imprint statement. See British Museum online catalogue., Reissue of a print originally published in 1749 by John Bowles. See British Museum online catalogue., No. 4, "Thomas Pitt," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., No. 5, "Radnor House," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., and Watermark: G.R.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles, No. 13 in Cornhill & Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard
Title from item., Inscribed with the title in unidentified hand below image: "The cottage at Strawberry Hill.", Inscribed with the artist's name in lower left corner below image: "Carne. Tringham ex.", and Amatuer copy after 1789 watercolor by J.C. Barrow's "The Cottage"?
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Architecture, Domestic, Dwellings, and Houses
published according to act of Parliament, March 1st, 1759.
Call Number:
Topos Su962 no. 15++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of a large house, with arched windows, castellated walls and twin cupolas, a smaller building to left, connected by a low wall which curves outwards at one point, in parkland with figures on the lawn in front, including a group gathered around a woman who sits in the shelter of a parasol, fishing from the river which curves into the foreground from the right; a small bridge to right and figures in two boats in the centre, cattle on the near bank to right; state with Bakewell included as publisher"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of Esher in Surrey, the seat of The Late Right Honourable Henry Pelham Esqr and Vüe d'Esher dans la comté de Surry, maison & jardin magnifique du feu Henry Pelham Ecuyer
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet numbered in a contemporary hand in lower right corner: No. 16.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles & Son in Cornhil [sic], Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, Eliz. Bakewell & Hen. Parker in Cornhil [sic], & J. Boydell in Cheapside
published according to act of Parliament, March 1st, 1759.
Call Number:
Topos Su962 no. 16++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of parkland sweeping into the foreground and sloping towards a river which curves into the distance, with a glimpse of a country house and a small neo-classical building, among trees, on the height to left, with several figures, including women walking in the foreground, others on a bench under a tree and men sitting on chairs to right, discussing plans and drawings; state with Bakewell included as publisher."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of Oatlands in Surrey, the seat of The Rt. Honble. the Earl of Lincoln and Vüe d'Oatlands dans la comté de Surry, maison & jardin magnifique du Comte de Lincoln
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles & Son in Cornhil [sic], Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, Eliz. Bakewell & Hen. Parker in Cornhil [sic], & J. Boydell in Cheapside
published according to act of Parliament, March 1st, 1759 [i.e. not before 1764]
Call Number:
Topos Su962 no. 17++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of a mansion in the background to left, with ladies and gentlemen on a path bordering a stream, sheep grazing, two ladies with a dog to left, a shepherd, milkmaid and three cows to right; state with Carington Bowles included as an independent publisher."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of Woobourn in Surrey, the seat of Philip Southcote Esqr and Vüe de Woobourn dans la comté de Surry, maison et jardin magnifique de Philip Southcote Ecuyer
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on the separation of John and Carington Bowles's names in imprint statement. See British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil [sic], Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, Heny. Parker in Cornhil [sic], & John Boydell in Cheapside
Watercolor of the southeast view of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with two workmen in the foreground rolling the lawn and clearing leaves
Alternative Title:
East front of Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title taken from a note in Horace Walpole's hand on verso of the drawing, now obscured by added mount. Companion drawing to his: South front of Strawberry Hill. Cf. Lewis Walpole call no.: 49 3485 (12) no. 2., Drawing that was later used as the basis of an engraving entitled "East front of Strawberry Hill"., Paul Sandby (bap. 1731-1809), English artist and architect., and For further information, consult library staff.
Watercolor of the view of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with the Thames River and the lawns
Description:
Title devised by curator., Companion drawing to his: Strawberry Hill chiefly taken in the year 1769 by Mr. Sandby. Lewis Walpole call no.: 49 3485 (12) no. 1., Drawing that was later used as the basis of an engraving for A description of the villa of Horace Walpole (1784) entitled: South front of Strawberry Hill., and Paul Sandby (bap. 1731-1809), English artist and architect.
A view of the north front of Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill with a procession lead by a group of monks proceeding away from the viewer toward the entrance of the villa. Also on the road are a coach and a post-chaise with a dog racing along side, supposedly on their way to Hampton Court. On the far right along the fence that encloses the property opposite, is a fountain whose spout is in the shape of a lion's head
Alternative Title:
North entrance of Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Note on back of frame: "Rowlandson, North Entrance of Strawberry Hill."
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, Carriages & coaches, Houses, Monks, Fountains, and Religious processions
Title from text above image., Questionable date of publication from annotation in pencil below plate mark., Four columns of verse below image: Know, all the distant din the world can keep rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep ... A. Pope., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge., and No. 9, "Pope's Villa," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.
Parkyns, George Isham, approximately 1750-approximately 1820, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1795]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 56+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View showing the west front of the old Marylebone Manor House; a wall separating grounds of house from street, next to a gat in the walls a woman carrying a basket on her head stops to talk with a man leaning on a bollard, in the left foreground a man sits on a bench talking with another man who stands gesturing and pointing towards two barrels"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of Plate 7 from: Picturesque views of churches. London, 1791-1792. See British Museum online catalogue., The Lewis Walpole Library: From the Topographical Prints collection., and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1795, by T. Simpson, St. Paul's Church Yard, and Darling & Thompson, Gt. Newport Strt and Printed by I. Pushee
"View of Buckingham House from outside the gates on to the park, without the fountain, a few elegantly dressed figures strolling around the yard, other figures outside gates in the park; an inscription on the building is lettered 'Sic Siti Laetantur Lares'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Plate from: Stow, J. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55., and Plate numbered "22" in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowe's Survey
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Stow, John, 1525?-1605. and Buckingham Palace (London, England),
"Front of the building, with rusticated wall with balustrade and ball ornaments and two gates to front court; two carriages on street outside"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Plate from: Stow, J. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "15" in lower right corner., and Mounted on modern secondary support.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowes Survey
Drawing of Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill in Twickenham from the view in the southeast
Alternative Title:
East view of Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex
Description:
Title inscribed by artist below image; signed and dated by the artist lower right of image., On verso in contemporary hand: Strawberry Hill en Middlesex maison de campagne de Mr. Horace Walpole. Added in pencil is a note (in French) giving biographical information on Walpole and noting that this drawing was likely to have been intended as a print, citing the presence of pinpricks that outline some of the buildings., and Johann Heinrich (or John Henry) Müntz (1727-1798), painter and architect, engaged by Walpole to paint at Strawberry Hill . He created a series of topographical drawings and copied old masters, but relations were broken off in late 1759 after a quarrel.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Houses
A view of Twickenham from across the river Thames. A single row boat is shown on the river. Mr. Horn's house is on the left on Eel Pie Island, and on the right, in the distance, is Ham House
Description:
Title inscribed in ink on verso in an unidentified hand. and Attributed to Müntz.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
"View of Marble Hill, a grand house fronting the Thames, seen from the opposite shore; a large lawn lined with trees separating house from riverbank; boats on the water, a man with three horses in right foreground"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Maison de la Comtess de Suffolk proche de Twickenham
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on printseller's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., Reissue of a print originally published in 1749 by John Bowles. See British Museum online catalogue., "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., No. 24, "Marble Hill," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., No. 28, "Montpelier Row," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., Window mounted to 44 x 59 cm., and Sheet numbered "39" in a contemporary hand below printmaker's signature.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill & Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
"View looking towards the piazza from the end of King Street, with a side view of Lord Archer's house, two boys playing in street, other figures behind and to the left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802].
"View looking towards the piazza from the end of King Street, with a side view of Lord Archer's house, two boys playing in street, other figures behind and to the left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., 1 print : aquatint and etching, on wove paper ; sheet 357 x 274 mm, mounted to 40 x 30 cm., and Imperfect; imprint trimmed from bottom of plate and pasted below image in lower right.
"View of the west front of Harewood House in Hanover Square; elegantly dressed figures and carriages in street"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., and "Pl. 90"--Below imprint.
"View in Covent Garden showing St Paul's Church and Lord Archer's House; in foreground a cart is laden with empty baskets, work horses stand in front with a donkey, to their right a group of three people fill and carry the baskets towards the market, a small elegantly dressed family in foreground to left"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Saint Paul's, Covent Garden
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Published March 15th, 1796, by T. Malton
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and Covent Garden (London, England),
"View of Uxbridge House in Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly; fashionably dressed figures on pavements on street, a carriage entering street beyond the house"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., and "Pl. 92"--Below imprint.
Title below image., Engraved for the 1842 "Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill"; with caption added., and With an embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
"Bird's eye view of the Duke of Beaufort's house at Chelsea, surrounded by formal gardens, with the river in the foreground and Holland House, Camden House and Kensington House in the background"--British Museum online catalogue, description of variant state
Alternative Title:
House at Chelsea in the county of Middlesex ...
Description:
Title from caption below image., Variant (earlier?) state of a plate from: Britannia illustrata ... London : D. Mortier, 1707., and Plate numbered "13" in lower right corner.
Two elevations and three floor plans of Marble Hill House, Twickenham. Design consists of five images in two rows, each with a caption in English and French etched below
Alternative Title:
Maison dans Twittenham Middlesex aproche le Rivier Thames
Description:
Title from text between the two rows of images., Date of publication based on that of volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Vitruvius Britannicus : or, The British architect ... / by Colen Campbell ... [London, 1715-1731]., "P. 93. Vol. 3d."--Upper left corner., No. 24, "Marble Hill," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., and With letterpress description of Marble Hill on separate sheet (23 x 23 cm).
"Façade of the house from the forecourt; steps leading up to entrance; three men on horseback below a window to right of entrance gesturing up towards two women who look down towards them"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: This mansion, which for more than a century was the town residence of the noble family of Russel Earls and Dukes of Bedford, was built ..., "Engraved from the original drawing purchased at the sale in Bedford House, & now in the possession of the publisher, R. Wilkinson.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two edges leaving thread margins., and Plate from: Londina illustrata : graphic and historic memorials of monasteries, churches, chapels, schools ... London: R. Wilkinson, 1819-25.
Publisher:
Published December 1, 1822, by R. Wilkinson, No. 125, Fenchurch Street
"View looking across the river towards the grand house fronting the Thames; three horses pull a fishing boat in foreground, a tree to the left"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Doctor Battys house at Twickenham as viewed from the opposite shore of the River Thames and Vüe de la maison de Monsieur le Docteur Batty a Twickenham prise du rivage opposee de la Tamisè
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist attribution from original drawing in The Lewis Walpole Library., Date of publication based on the separation of John and Carington Bowles's names in imprint statement. See British Museum online catalogue., Reissue of a print originally published in 1749 by John Bowles. See British Museum online catalogue., "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image., No. 10, "Hon. George Shirley," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., No. 12, "Dr. William Battie," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles, No. 13 in Cornhill & Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), Thames River (England),, England, and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Batty, Robert, 1763?-1849
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Houses, Estates, Rivers, Horses, and Boats
An album of pencil sketches of historic buildings and grounds in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, presumably executed during a tour, beginning in North Yorkshire, then South Yorkshire, and ending in Nottinghamshire. Most drawings are identified. Only one drawing is signed: "J. Haddow". The front flyleaf gives mileage between towns and villages beginning with Rotherham and continuing through Derbyshire and what is now Greater Manchester and finally to Ulverston (Lanscashire), perhaps a clue to the start and end of the trip; below this list is a sketch of a tree (orientation, reversed). The drawings, many over the two-page openings, include; three sketches of the ruins of Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire; one sketch of parkland from Goldsborough Hall, North Yorkshire, followed by thirteen blank leaves; four sketches of Osberton Hall, Notinghamshire; three sketches of Tickhill Castle, South Yorkshire; twelve sketches of Sandbeck Park, South Yorkshire that include the ruins of Roche Abbey; and finally, a small sketch of the gate at Sandbeck Park on the back flyleaf (verso).
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger. Dated approximately., The album includes 42 leaves, approximately 13 of which are blank. Bound in the original light brown paper-covered boards, flat spine., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Northamptonshire (England), Yorkshire (England), England., England, Nottinghamshire., and Yorkshire.
"View in Twickenham; two men fishing in river surrounded by reeds in foreground to right; trees and shrubbery on the left; grand houses fronting river running across centre of view."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Names of the owners of the represented houses are engraved in lower margin above title: Lord Radnor's; Mr. Hudson's; Mr. Pope's now Sr. Wm. Stanhope's; Lady Ferrers's; Mrs. Backwell's., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 178 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
"View in Twickenham; two men fishing in river surrounded by reeds in foreground to right; trees and shrubbery on the left; grand houses fronting river running across centre of view."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Names of the owners of the represented houses are engraved in lower margin above title: Lord Radnor's; Mr. Hudson's; Mr. Pope's now Sr. Wm. Stanhope's; Lady Ferrers's; Mrs. Backwell's., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 91 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 41.8 x 56.2 cm., Annotation in pencil following title: Engrav'd from a private plate of Mr. Walpole's., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.