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)
A view of Horace Walpole's home in Twickenham, Strawberry Hill from the south. Two gardeners roll the lawn, pulling the heavy roller behind them, towards the lower right. In the distance is a view of the Thames and Richmond in the distance
Alternative Title:
Southview of Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist unknown., Watermark: J. Whatman., and This is the drawing from which Annie Burr Lewis made her first needlepoint, now at the Lewis Walpole Library and signed: ABL '38.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Estates, and Gardening
A design for the tomb of Galfridus Mann of Boughton Malherbe in Kent, brother of Sir Horace Mann, with elevation and details
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount below drawing., Epitaph on tomb and notes below image are in Latin., Date from Horace Walpole correspondence with Sir Horace Mann 20 November 1757: "... that columbarium at Linton is to have a beautiful urn designed by Mr. Bentley as the whole is, with this plain, very true inscription, Galfredo Mann, amicissimo optimo, qui obit--H.W.P.", With a note in Horace Walpole's hand in ink bottom of image: Qui obit Dec 20. 1756 status sud 50 Horatius Walpole posuit., and Formerly mounted on leaf 50 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Geographic):
Kent (England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Urns
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 taken from the Thames River looking upstream towards Teddington includes a view of Radnor House on the right. A lady and gentleman walk along the path across the grounds leading to the waterfront and the ramp for boat launchings. On the left of the property along the river's edge is a Chinese summer house and in the distance is Horace Walpole's villa Strawberry Hill. A barge pulling a skiff approaches from the left in foreground
Alternative Title:
View of Mr. Hindley's, formerly Lord Radnor's, at Twickenham, with a prospect of Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title, artist name, and date from ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand on verso., Horace Walpole's note on verso: View of Mr Hindley's, formerly Lord Radnors' at, Twickenham, with a prospect of Strawberry-hill, by Mr Scott, 1758., and Also dated and signed in image, lower right: "1758 S. Scott 1758".
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England) and Thames River (England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Hindley, John Atherton, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Radnor House (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Estates, Barges, and Summer houses
"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
View of Brighton, the town with numerous houses and other buildings, St. Nicholas's Church on the hill above the town to the right, the coast stretching away in the distance, windmills in the fields to the left with haywains drawn by oxen and reapers at their work amongst the crops to the right, elegant ladies and gentlemen strolling through the scene with a man sketching to the left, several boats and ships on the calm sea beyond, gulls amongst the clouds above. The Royal Arms below
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Titled 'A Perspective View of Brighthelmstone, and of the Sea coast as far as the Isle of Wight: by Jas. Lambert, engraved by Canot.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, & sold by Jas. Lambert, painter, at Lewes in Sussex, and Robert Sayer, map and printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Brighton (England), England., England, and Brighton.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Cityscapes, Churches, Coastlines, Meadows, Windmills, and Church buildings
Volume 1, after page xxxii. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of Horace Walpole's villa Strawberry Hill from the south across the lawn with the Thames in the distance on the right. In the foreground a man leads two woman and a child along with their two dogs across the lawn, gesturing with his arm to the right. Another man walks toward the river
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified. Another watercolor of the same view has been attributed to Moses Griffith; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Views G853 no. 1., Probably after a 1769 drawing by Paul Sandby; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3485 (12) no. 2., Formerly mounted to another backing, now removed, leaving only traces of manuscript note on verso: South vie[w] ... the Hon. [H?] ..., Mounted after page xxxii (leaf numbered '33' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men., and Temporary local subject terms: Domestic architecture.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Homes and haunts, and Estates
Watercolor of the view from the east of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with two men pulling a lawn roller across the grass
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Another larger drawing of this view: Strawberry Hill chiefly taken in the year 1769 by Mr. Sandby. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 769.00.0077dr++., Drawing that was later used as the basis of an engraving entitled "East front of Strawberry Hill" that appeared in the 1784 edition of: A description of the villa of Horace Walpole., and Paul Sandby (bap. 1731-1809), English artist and architect.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Estates, and Buildings, structures, etc
A view of the cottage on Horace Walpole's estate, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with trees on either side. In the distance on the left is an octagonal (?) building
Description:
Title etched below image. and "J.B." probably Joseph Charles Barrow.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Architecture, Domestic, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Housing
