Volume 12, page 214. Horace Walpole and his world.
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still image
Abstract:
Drawing with two scenes: 'the back parlour" in an oval within a larger rectangular view of a 'park wall'. The park wall is covered in ivy and at its base, lush ferns and other plants and mushrooms, ferns and at the top a stand of trees. The oval inset...
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation by Horace Walpole's letter to Miss Berry December 1793: "A park-wall with ivy on it and fern near it, and a back parlour in London in summer, with a dead creeper and a couple of sooty sparrows, are my strong...
Subject (Topic):
Parlors, Garden walls, Casement windows, and Depression (Mental state)
In a circular drawing framed by trees in the foreground, a view of the cottage called Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, owned by the fashionable toy dealer Mrs. Chenevix and purchased in 1748 by Horace Walpole. The small ivy-covered house stands at cente...
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation in Horace Walpole's letter to Henry Seymour Conway, 8 June 1747.
A view of a church steeple rising above a lush stand of trees in the foreground and middle distance, the arc of a rainbow directly behind the cross at its top and across the width of the drawing; with dark clouds above. On the hills on the right a to...
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation from Horace Walpole's letter to George Montagu, written in May, 1763: We walked to the Belvidere on the summit of the hill, where a theatrical storm only served to heighten the beauty of the landscape, a rai...
A drawing with two images: the circular image on top shows three women and a man in a picture gallery, their backs to the viewer, discussing a painting on the wall. Below, separated by an image of two feathers, is a rectangular, framed still life with...
Description:
Title written below image. From a quotation from Horace Walpole's letter to 25 March 1761 written from Houghton: A party arrived, just as I did, to see the house, a man and three women in riding-dresses, and they rode post through the apartments. I co...