"View of the gothic style house with castellated towers, pikelets and a spire with weathervane at back, seen from lawns in the foreground with two figures, thin trees surrounding the building and a bench in the garden at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists. London : Published by Harrison & Co., [1786-1788]., and With letterpress description of Strawberry Hill on separate sheet (210 x 278 mm).
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, Octr. 1, 1788, by Harrison and Co., No. 18, Paternoster-Row, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
"View of the gothic style house with castellated towers, pikelets and a spire with weathervane at back, seen from lawns in the foreground with two figures, thin trees surrounding the building and a bench in the garden at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists. London : Published by Harrison & Co., [1786-1788]., Mounted on page 13 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., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 15.2 x 20.3 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, Octr. 1, 1788, by Harrison and Co., No. 18, Paternoster-Row, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
