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 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
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
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.
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
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.