A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole : youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill at Twickenham, Middlesex. With an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.
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Lewis Walpole Library > A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole : youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill at Twickenham, Middlesex. With an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.
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Description
- Title
- A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole : youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill at Twickenham, Middlesex. With an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.
- Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Contributor
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Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist.
Harding, G. P. 1780-1853, artist.
Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809, printmaker, artist. - Published / Created
- MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
- Publication Place
- Strawberry Hill
- Publisher
- Printed by Thomas Kirgate
- Description
-
Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy available as in a pdf.
Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
Copiously extra-illustrated by Richard Bull with prints, drawings by John Carter, and Strawberry Hill Press detached pieces. Inlaid to folio probably before 1790, with letterpress pages and illustrations decorated with ruled edges, on fronts and backs of pages. Autograph memoranda by Walpole inserted. Coat of arms of Richard Bull painted inside cover. Formerly bound in russia, now in green morocco.
For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- Sold by Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, to W.S. Lewis; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
- Extent
- iv, 96 p. : 28 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Armorial bindings (Provenance)
Armorial bindings (Binding)
Drawings
Engravings England 18th century
Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance)
Original art
Portrait prints
Watercolors - Material
- ill., maps, plans, plates (some col. and fold.) ;
- Subject (Geographic)
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name)
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic)
- Country homes
- Subjects
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Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Sutton, Charles Manners, 1755-1829
Country homes > Great Britain
18th century
England > 18th century
Alexander, Gulielmus > Bookplate
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843 > Bookplate
Barrow, Joseph Charles > Original art
Bate, J. T. > Ownership
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Original art
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Beale, Mary, 1632-1697 > Original art
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808 > Original art
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Campbell, Frederick, Lord, 1729-1816 > Presentation inscription
Carter, John, 1748-1817 > Original art
Cheney, Edward, d. 1884 > Ownership
Chute, John, 1701-1776 > Original art
Clarke, Anna Maria > Ms. notes
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 9-1828 > Ownership
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 9-1828 > Ms. notes
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 9-1828 > Presentation inscription
Dickinson, Mary > Ms. notes
Dobbyns > Original art
Courtauld, Samuel, 1876-1947 > Ownership
Cunningham, Peter, 1816-1869 > Ownership
Dickenson, Mary Hamilton, 1756-1816 > Ownership
Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806 > Original art
Erne, Caroline > Ownership
Essex, James, 1722-1784 > Original art
Eyton, Joseph Walter King > Ownership
Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778 > Original art
Foote, Robert, b.1783 > Ownership
Gathorne-Hardy, R. E. (Ralph Edward) > Bookplate
Gore, Charles, 1729-1807 > Original art
Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947 > Bookplate
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809 > Ownership
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853 > Original art
Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690-1770 > Original art
Keppel, Anna Maria > Ownership
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Original art
Knight, William, F.S.H., d. 1947 > Ownership
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Landsberg, Albert > Ownership
Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740 > Original art
Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798 > Original art
Musgrave, William, Sir, 1735-1800 > Ownership
Newdigate, Francis Alexander, Sir, 1862-1936 > Ownership
Philips, Mark > Bookplate
Pennicott, William > Ownership
Perrott, Francis > Ownership
Pinkerton, John, 1735-1816 > Ownership
Ponsonby, Miss > Original art
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745 > Original art
Smith, George D., 1870-1920 > Ownership
Strachey, Constance > Ownership
Waldegrave, Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, Earl, 1905- > Ownership
Waldegrave, William Frederick Waldegrave, Earl, 1851-1930 > Ownership
Waller, Wathen, Sir
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Binding
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Original art
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Presentation inscription
Walpole, Hugh, Sir, 1884-1941 > Bookplate
Wharncliffe, Edward, Earl > Bookplate
Wheler, Charles, Sir, 1730-1821 > Ownership
Wyatt, James, 1746-1813 > Ownership
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- Public
- Rights
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Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7552043
- Object ID (OID)
- 15951381
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