A pencil skteches of designs for Gothic ceiling ornaments; on the verso two sketches: the first, a Palladian house with five bays, attached to a church by a walk; and the second, a floor plan for a house[?].
Alternative Title:
Pencil sketch of an elevation and plan of a Palladian five-bay house attached to a church by a covered walk
An ink drawing with some pencil, of a design for a captial with decorated with ancanthi leaves
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Written below design in an unidentified hand: "At Ed. Egremounts Library in Pickadilly, plaister cornice under [the] cove."
Structural drawing of the church and chancel at Croome, in black in with scale and some additions in purple ink. Square section in upper left corner cut out
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Inscribed at top of page: "Section of [the] Church and Chancel for Ld. Coventry at Croome, Worchestershire."
Elevation drawing of the stairway at Strawberry Hill, with the suit of armor of Francis II in niche at the top
Alternative Title:
Elevation of the hall with Francis II armor
Description:
Title and tentative date supplied by curator., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and George Perfect Harding (1780-1853), British miniature painter.
Page 121.13. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from notes in ink above image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 121.13 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Page 121.8. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to John Chute from local card catalog record., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted., Two drawings on separate sheets, mounted together one above the other., Annotations accompany the vignettes in the drawings, with "circular room 12 feet high" written in pencil across top of uppermost drawing. Also in the upper drawing, "eight stools" is written in ink next to a circular design, and the notes "fret work inside of roof" and "low head boards pierced ..." are written next to two small depictions of a chimneypiece. In the lower drawing, the notes "flat & square" and "balustrade 2 f. 1/2 high" are written next to a patterned design., Several additional sketches of architectural details, in pen and ink and pencil, are present on the verso of the sheet mounted at top., and Mounted on page 121.8 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)