Drawing the gothic lantern that eventually hung "in the well of the staircase" according Horace Walpole's account in his 1774 Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole. Date of creation based on the appearance of the gothic lantern, as originally des...
Alternative Title:
Sir Horace Walpole's gothic lamp
Description:
Title from item.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
A drawing of a design for the screen in the Holbein Chamber at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex. With additions in pencil above and below. One of three designs for the screen included in Walpole's album of Bentley drawin...
Alternative Title:
Screen in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink at bottom of sheet.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Elevation of flank of seven bays of pointed arches divided by thin buttresses, and elevation of end. This is probably the design for the cloister linking Bateman's house to this Gothic Octagon designed by Muntz. In a letter written to George Montagu ...
Alternative Title:
Gothic cloister designed by Mr. Bentley
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso.
Subject (Name):
Bateman, Richard, approximately 1705-1773, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A drawing of a design for the gateway with scale to Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex, with pencil sketches of a floor plan and other notes and sketch
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink at top right of sheet.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
An unexecuted design for the palace of Richard Trevor (1707-1771), Bishop of Durham from 1752. Horace Walpole commented about the construction project on 19 October 1760, "St. Durham told my Lord Manchester, who is just come from Auckland, that he had...
