"A small wooden bridge over a broad river with rapids, between banks with rich foliage, and a group on the right bank, a woman gathering a sheet, a man with a broad hat and another sitting."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "No. 4."--Lower left corner., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published March 25th, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
"View of the spring-head of Roaring River on the estate of William Beckford, surrounded by trees with cattle wading to front, where a kneeling man hands fruit from a basket to a standing woman; no. 5 from a series."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "No. 5."--Lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Matted to 52 x 67 cm.
Publisher:
Published Mar. 25th, 1778, by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Wash drawing depicting one face of a bridge spanning a stream, with a depiction of the bridge's footprint drawn below. A scale bar is present at the bottom
Description:
Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Attribution to James Essex from annotation in Horace Walpole's hand on verso: Design for the face of a bridge over the rivulet at Twickenham which runs by Mr. Walpole's flower-garden and crosses the road between that and Mr. Briscoe's garden. Drawn by Mr. Essex., Date of production from local catalog card., Annotated in a later hand on verso: N. the back woud. run[?] to the angle of Mr. Briscoe's pole & the front woud. look sideways towards Mr. Walpole's garden, so as to be seen from the window of the Great Bedchamber., and Mounted on page 3 (formerly B) 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 (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"View of the villa with house to the left, the river to the right with bridge in the back; a cart in the river collecting water, two figures talking in the left, looking towards the river."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Eleventh in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 60 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Publish'd 12th Septr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond (London, England), Richmond Bridge (Richmond upon Thames, London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Asgill, Charles, Sir, 1762-1823
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Rivers, Bridges, Dwellings, and Carts & wagons
Drawing of part of the grounds of Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with the shell bench designed by Richard Bentley in the distance on the right and a wooden bridge over a stream on the left. A hedgerow and a wooden gate are present in the foreground, and along with a wooden fence in front of the shell bench these enclose a rectangular lawn. Trees are seen in the background and along the left side of the image
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in brown ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand. and Mounted on page 177 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 (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)