Elevation of the offices at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill estate in Twickenham. One facade of the two-story building is depicted, with a scale bar running along the bottom of the image
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 254 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 ; sheet 12.1 x 23.3 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Elevation of the offices at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill estate in Twickenham. One facade of the two-story building is depicted, with a scale bar running along the bottom of the image
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Formerly laid in at page 103 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.
Publisher:
Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title vignettes, engraved., While vol. 2 was published in 1752, some large paper copies are dated 1751., Two volumes bound in one; volume 2 dated 1751., Large paper copy., and Laid in before page 25: two unidentified leaves laid in, with drawings on rectos and versos of elevations, floor plans, and a sketch of a column, one in pen and ink and the other in graphite. On the leaves is laid paper with a J. Whatman watermark, dated 18[...]. The other paper is wove.
