A French officer, wearing blue, towers above a British officer, wearing scarlet. The French officer extends his arm above the head of the British officer
Description:
Title from item., In ink below image: "Jany 13. 1822. Pub. by G. Thanphrey St. James Street"., Richard Dighton, English painter and caricaturist, 1795-1880., and For further information, consult library staff.
Drawing of Whitehall Palace framed by two pencilled lines and mounted on a secondary sheet
Description:
Drawing attributed to Vertue in pencil on the mount below image and titled in pencil on the verso. Attribution questionable. and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
Drawing of William Lodge (1649-1689), English born painter, etcher and landscape draughtsman
Alternative Title:
William Lodge, Gent
Description:
Title, caption and Inscription in ink, in Horace Walpole's hand., Drawing that was later used as a basis for an engraving of Lodge in: Catalogue of engravers / digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the mss. of Mr. George Vertue. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII [1763], opp. p. 87., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Two caricatured scholars dressed in robes and tasselled mortar board caps engage in a lively quarrel. One ominously raises a closed fist while another sneers and clasps his hands before him
Description:
Title, date, and artist attribution suggested by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
Title devised by curator, based on inscription beneath image., Inscription in ink below image: "Armour said to have belonged to Francis I in possesion of Mr. Walpole.", Unknown artist., Annotation on verso, in W.S. Lewis's hand referring to Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondenc, VIII, 98, 107, et al., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Contents collection., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Bust of a woman wearing a castellated crown over her long curly locks
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Loose drawing removed from bound volume: A collection of prints contained in this collection after the sketches and drawings of the late celebrated G.B. Cipriani, Esqr. Lewis Walpole Library Folio 75 C495 789B.
Six drawings mounted on a single leaf disbound from a 19th century album. One of the pencil drawings shows a vase that was in the Long Gallery at Strawberry Hill; the drawing is possibly by Paul Sandby sketched for his drawing of the view of the Long Gallery. Two other drawings in pen and ink with wash depict vases or urns. Two other pen and ink drawings with wash at the top of the sheet depict architectural ornaments, though one may be a design for jewelry. At the bottom of the sheet is a drawing of a sarchophagus, in pen and ink with pencil; on the front panel is a drawing in pencil of city view, a classical-style building on the left, a forum in the middle, and two columns on the right. The drawing of the sarchophagus is tentatively attributed to James Gibbs
Description:
One of four sheets from a 19th century album. To view other sheets, see Lewis Walpole Library: Drawings Un58 nos. 73, 74, and 75., Note below image, written in pencil in unknown hand, "The vase in long gallery, now in Waddesdon Coll. Brit. Mus, perhaps i Sandby/or his [ ] of long gallery. ms.", Numbered 706 on sheet., and Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Architectural decorations & ornaments, Art collections, Sarcophagi, Urns, and Vases
Drawing in pencil of a Gothic window for an unidentified project. Possibly associated with the drawings described by Harris
Description:
Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of left edge: GR., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
A pencil sketch of the southeast corner of Strawberry Hill, the home of Horace Walpole, shown with a tree along side the villa and a view of the grove of trees beyond
Description:
Title devised by curator., John Chute (1701-1776), English architect and connoisseur of the arts and literature, member of Horace Walpole's 'committee of taste.', Drawn on the verso of the back free endpaper in Horace Walpole's copy of Batty and Thomas Langley's Ancient architecture restored and improved by a great variety of grand an dusefull designs (London, 1742)., and Original vellum. With Horace Walpole's bookplate. Press-mark E.3.15. Bookplate (19th century) of John Heugh. Pencil sketch by Chute of a proposed design for the south-east corner of Strawberry Hill, on fly-leaf at end.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)