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1. Cliveden near Strawberry-Hill, Twickenham, formerly the villa of Mrs. Catherine Clive the comedian, and now of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry, 1792 [art original].
- Creator:
- Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1792]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing of Little Strawberry Hill, which was home to the actress Kitty Clive in the 1780's and then to Mary and Agnes Berry after 1791. Trees flank either side of the house and a hedgerow separates the structure from the figures in the foreground. A man works in the garden on the left while a gentleman and lady walk arm in arm in the center of the image
- Description:
- Titled in Thomas Kirgate's hand below image on mounting page., Attribution to Joseph Charles Barrow from local catalog card., and Mounted on page 5 (formerly D) 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Berry, Mary, 1763-1852, and Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cliveden near Strawberry-Hill, Twickenham, formerly the villa of Mrs. Catherine Clive the comedian, and now of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry, 1792 [art original].
2. Kitty Clive's house at Strawberry Hill [art original].
- Creator:
- Smith, Charles John, 1803-1838, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1836]
- Call Number:
- 485 842 C76 VI Copy 5
- Collection Title:
- Page 5. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of Little Strawberry Hill, which was home to actress Kitty Clive in the 1780's. Trees flank the house on either side; a group of women and children stand on the path in the right foreground
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand., Artist and date of production from note in ink on mounting sheet: This is the original drawing by Charles John Smith from which he engraved the plate for Murray's Johnsoniana published in 1836, p. 177., and Mounted on page 5 in T. Crofton Croker's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Kitty Clive's house at Strawberry Hill [art original].
3. Mrs. Clive's monument erected by the late Lord Orford in Mr. Berry's garden at Twickenham [art original].
- Creator:
- Farington, Joseph, 1747-1821, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1785]
- Call Number:
- SH Views F226 no. 2+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A drawing of the monument to Mrs. Clive int he garden of Mr. Berry in Twickenham, set in a grove. On the base is Horace Walpole's five-line epitaph
- Alternative Title:
- Horace Walpole's memorial to Kitty Clive
- Description:
- Title written below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Questionable attribution to Joseph Farington., and With Horace Walpole's epitaph engraved on the base: "Ye smiles & jests still hover round! This is Mirth's consecrated ground: ..." written after her visit to Strawberry Hill in 1774. (See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 2 , p. 374-5.)
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial, Memorials, Monuments & memorials, and Buildings, structures, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Clive's monument erected by the late Lord Orford in Mr. Berry's garden at Twickenham [art original].
4. Mrs. Clives house near Twickenham [art original].
- Creator:
- 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:
- View of Little Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, home to Mrs. Clive in the 1780s and then to Agnes and Mary Berry sometime after 1791. The white house has ivy growing up its side and is flanked by trees; abundant shrubbery completes the foreground
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 205 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Houses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Clives house near Twickenham [art original].
5. North east view of the above [Cliveden] [art original].
- Creator:
- Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1792?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing of Little Strawberry Hill as viewed from the northeast. The house at center is mostly obscured by trees, with a lawn extending from the front of the house to the left. Caged hedges with hedge arches border a path on the near side of the lawn, and two women walk on the path towards the house. A man pushing a wheelbarrow stands in the right foreground, and next to him sits a girl with a basket of flowers
- Alternative Title:
- Northeast view of the above
- Description:
- Titled in Thomas Kirgate's hand below image on mounting page; "the above" in title refers to the drawing entited Cliveden near Strawberry-Hill ..., which is mounted above this drawing on the same page., Attribution to Joseph Charles Barrow from local catalog card., Date based on that of the drawing mounted above this drawing on the same page., and Mounted on page 5 (formerly D) 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Berry, Mary, 1763-1852, and Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > North east view of the above [Cliveden] [art original].
6. The Green Room scuffle, or, Drury Lane in an uproar
- Published / Created:
- [29 January 1746]
- Call Number:
- 746.01.29.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Drury Lane in an uproar
- Description:
- Caption title in letterpress below image., Letterpress broadside song illustrated with etching (design 15.5 x 25 cm) at top of sheet. Title on plate: "Totus mundus agit histrionem." Signed in lower right corner: Tho. Booth sculp., Dated by Stephens 1725 from the British Museum impression that lacks the song and imprint., Sheet trimmed close to design and letterpress resulting in minor loss of title., "To the tune of Gossip Joan.", Sixteen stanzas of song in three columns below title: Ye peers, ye cits and beaux who haunt pit, box and gall'ry ..., Describes a fight between two actresses, Kitty Clive and Peg Woffington, which took place in 1746 when Henry IV was performed at Drury Lane, as related by Thomas Davies in his Dramatic miscellanies, 1784, v. 1, p. 231-3. The subjects in the print were identified by Horace Walpole (1717-1797) in his copy of Davies' Miscellanies., Temporary local subject terms: Theaters: Green Room, Drury Lane -- Actors: Owen MacSwinney and James Raftor., and Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd persuant to act of Parliament, Jan. 29, 1746, by G. Foster on Ludgate-Hill, and sold at the print and pamphlet shop in London and Westminster
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Woffington, Margaret, -1760, and Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Green Room scuffle, or, Drury Lane in an uproar
7. The theatrical contest 1743 [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [24 October 1743]
- Call Number:
- 743.10.24.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption above image., Temporary local subject terms: London: Covent Garden Piazza -- Pools -- Harlequin -- Playbills -- Signs: "Coffee tea" -- Petitions: petition of actors' grievances, 1743 -- Wages in theater: dispute over wages between actors and managers -- Inflated bladders with signs of characters in plays -- Henry Giffard, d. 1743 -- Richard Winstone, d. 1787 -- Turbutt, d.1740 -- Cashill or Cashel, d. 1748., and Lower left corner of sheet missing.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Octobr. 24th 1743 by G. Foster at the White Horse on Ludgate Hill
- Subject (Name):
- Grafton, Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of, 1683-1757, Arthur, John, 1708?-1772, Fleetwood, Charles Gerard, active 1733-1744, Rich, John, 1692-1761, Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Garrick, David, 1717-1779, Macklin, Charles, 1697?-1797, Ryan, Lacy, 1694?-1760, Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777, Dunstall, John, 1717-1778, Woffington, Margaret, -1760, Pritchard, Hannah, 1711-1768, Covent Garden (London, England), and Covent Garden Market (Westminster, London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life, Occupations, Produce stands, Sedan chairs, and Wheelbarrows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The theatrical contest 1743 [graphic].
