Portrait of Edward Herbert of Cherbury; whole length, reclining on the ground, on his side, one arm propping up his head, a shield over the other arm
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement from bottom edge. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 77 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., With Richard Bull's manuscript title in ink below image, on mounting page: Lord Herbert of Cherbury., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs May 1st, 1797, by E. Jeffery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, Baron, 1583-1648, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby; bust, looking to the right; with short beard, wearing cap; after Holbein."--British Museum online catalogue and "This is one of 75 etchings from John Chamberlaine's series of imitations of drawings 'Original Designs of the Most Celebrated Masters in his Majesty's Collection' (quarto edition, London, 1812; folio edition in 1793). The plates are executed in etching, aquatint (proof impressions before aquatint exist) and stipple, and made between 1790s and 1812 by Bartolozzi, Tomkins, Shepster, Pastorini, G.F. Lewis, G. Lewis and others. ... Most plates of this series are lettered 'In his Majesty's collection'."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Edward Stanley Earl of Derby
Description:
Title etched above image., "In his Majesty's collection"--Below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1948,0315.11.3., Mounted on page 122 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Novr. 1, 1793, by I. Chamberlaine
"Bust portrait of the actress Elizabeth Barry, in profile to left, hair pulled back and loosely fastened, falling down back and over right shoulder, wearing loose, low-necked gown, button at left shoulder; oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Elizabeth Barry
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Engraved after the picture kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 220 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; oval sheet 13.1 x 10.4 cm., Imperfect; oval portrait only is present, with the rest of the sheet (including all text) trimmed away., Manuscript title in ink on mounting page below image: Mrs. Barry., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 17, 1792, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Barry, Elizabeth, approximately 1658-1713, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A view of the entrance to Horace Walpole's house Strawberry Hill and the 1759 wing shows a servant emerging from the studded front door on his way to the kitchen via the Little Cloister. There was no internal communication between the hall and kitchen on the ground floor
Description:
Title etched below image., First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner., Publication information from that of the volume for which the print was made., Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Mounted on page 26 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 25.7 x 20.3 cm, on sheet 28.3 x 23.2 cm, and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Four oval portraits, one occupying each quadrant of the plate, of the 41st through 44th Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller (Knights of Malta). The sitter's name is engraved within the surrounding border of each portrait. A decorative cross fills the space in the center, as do the Roman numerals XLI-XLIV, which number the portraits
Alternative Title:
F. Guido de Blanchefort ; F. Fabritius de Carretto ; F. Philippus de Villers Lisle Adam ; F. Perinus de Ponte
Description:
Titles from text within the borders of the portraits., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem. Rome : [Populus Romanus], [1586-]1588., Imperfect; only the portrait in the lower left quadrant is present, with the rest of the plate trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 148 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., Mounted beside a sheet (5.5 x 15.2 cm), trimmed from the bottom of a different portrait plate, with the engraved title: Philippe Villiers de L'isle-Adam, Grand Prieur de France ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Populus Romanus
Subject (Name):
Blanchefort, Guy de, 1446-1513, Carretto, Fabrizio del, 1455-1521, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Philippe, 1464-1534, and Ponte, Piero del, 1462-1535
View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
Description:
Title etched below image., Also signed in image: E.E. 1783., Later state, with aquatint added. For earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Views Ed25 no. 8+., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 237 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching and aquatint on laid paper ; sheet 20.8 x 25.2 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1784, by F. Jukes, No. 1 Great Marylebone Street
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Front and back views of a bronze statue of a woman carrying a pig in one hand and a child in the other, to be sacrificed. The object was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., "Ex aere" etched twice in lower part of plate, once below each image., "Tab. II"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 192 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 19.7 x 17.4 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Figures painted on the bottoms and sides of pots used for funerary rights. These objects were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., "Tab. V"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 51 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; oval sheet 11.1 x 11.6 cm., Imperfect; only the upper image of the underside of a pot is present, the rest of the plate having been trimmed away., With manuscript note in ink below image, on mounting page: Bottom of the vase above., and For further information, consult library staff.
Depiction of the marble statue of the Farnese Flora at the Palace of Versailles. The female figure looks to the right and is draped in a gown which falls away from her right shoulder; she holds up a garland in her left hand and grasps the hem of her garment in her right hand
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Thomassin, S. Recueil des figures, groupes, thermes, fontaines, vases, statues, et autres ornemens de Versailles. Amsterdam : P. Mortier, 1695., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "31" in upper right corner., Mounted on page 159 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
