Detailed plan of the grounds, buildings, and gardens at Strawberry Hill, as viewed from above. The boundaries of Horace Walpole's property are delineated with a red dotted line, and the roads and properties immediately adjacent are shown. Some features, including the River Thames at the bottom of the drawing, are labeled in ink within the drawing itself; other features are labeled with capital letters that are explained in a key below. A scale for the drawing is included beneath the key
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink at bottom of sheet., Attribution to John Carter and date range for production from curator., and Mounted on page 2 (formerly A) 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.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned,) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility. On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance""--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title inscribed in brown ink below image., Date based on published Gillray print., Description of published Gillray print in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7894., Description of published Gillray print in Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times / edited by Thomas Wright. London : Chatto and Windus, [1873?], p. 130., Description of published Gillray print in Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray ... / by Thomas Wright, 1851, no. 58., and A 'counterprint' or transfer in brown ink from another print on verso: A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the Revolution Society.
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, and Constitutional Society (London, England)
Title from text inscribed in black ink above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Final page blank., Signatures: [A]-D²., Not in ESTC., Lewis Walpole Library 49 3885.2 v.1: No. 19 in a bound collection of catalogues, owned by Horace Walpole, with notes in an unidentified hand. Also with a drawing of a man playing a violin, possibly by Horace Walpole, in pen and ink over graphite., LWL: Ms copy, laid in Graves' collection of catalogues., and Bound to 25 cm.
A courtroom scene with solicitors and jury snickering and laughing in response to a witty pun the judge offered following the defendent's plea for mercy. The criminal on trial in the far right is dishevled and dressed in the style of a sailor. The judge, on the far left, wears a black and gold-trimmed robe and leans intensely over the bench glaring at the accused
Description:
Title from pen and ink caption inscribed below image., Date from unverified local card catalog record., and Possibly the work of Isaac Cruikshank.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Courtrooms, Criminals, Judges, Judicial proceedings, and Lawyers
Drawn frontispiece to A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... at Strawberry-Hill ... . A structure of Gothic design is depicted, with the abridged title of the book at its center. Alcoves in the structure hold statues on either side of title; the statue on the right is a knight in armor. The Walpole family crest is drawn in gold below the title and the Walpole motto "Fari quae sentiat" appears within a banner on the ground in front of the structure
Description:
Title written in ink and gold paint at center of design., Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount below image., and Mounted on page 9 (formerly H) 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.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A witch flying to the left on a broomstick and suckling a cat, discharges a blast of "inflammable air" towards a large sphere suspended midair behind her. A spectator standing below holds a torch to the stream of air and says, "How blue it burns!" Another man identified as a F.R.S. (Fellow of the Royal Society) stands to the right watching the scene and observes, "We shall now have a Lunatick Journal." Behind the Fellow of the Royal Society is another spectator identified as A.S.S. who boasts of having a ticket to Georgium Sidus (i.e., Uranus).
Description:
Title from inscription in black ink in the artist's hand above image., Date supplied by cataloger., Print after image is described in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy Georg, v. 4, no. 6335, and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Balloons (Aircraft), Witches, and Spectators
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. November 1768]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A tracing of an etching that reproduces in a general way the design of "A scene of a pantamime entertainment lately exhibitied (British Museum satire no. 4220) with some additions and variations
Description:
Title below image., Knight of Malta identified as the Marquis Townshend., Tracing of no. 4221 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and On page 293 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to:
View of the ruins, probably St. Austin's Abbey in Canterbury. A man, a woman, and a child are seen in the foreground
Alternative Title:
View of St. Austin's Monastery
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date written after title, in a different hand., and Mounted opposite page 100 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Hentzner, P. A journey into England. Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1757.
A tracing by George Steevens of a print by Willaim Hogarth: Theatre stage with two dancers; on the left a woman (La Barbarina) jumps with her legs apart and on the right a man (George Desnoyer) stands with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles. With the text "C.C. Prickt lines shewing the rising Height" at the foot of the stage as in the first state and with a face on the sun
Alternative Title:
Charmers of the age
Description:
Title from item., Lengthy pencil note in William Windham's hand below: These two pieces viz. the one marked Qui Color albus erat and The Charmers of the age? are not prints but copies taken with a pen by Mr. Steevens, and given to me, together with many others, not copies, in return for those mentioned in his collection as given by me to him. [Signed] W.W. March 22d 1800., After Paulson, R. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 153., and On page 100 in volume 1.
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barberina, 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
Subject (Topic):
Dancers, German, Italian, and Theatrical productions
Portrait of Adriaen van Diest (1655-1704), born in The Hague, immigrated to England when he was 17 and remained there, active as a landscape painter of views of England in the western parts landscapes, chiefly in the Italian manner
Description:
Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 129., Title from item., Signed in ink, lower right: ob. 1704 Aeta '49. G.V., Inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower right below monogram: poss. Mr. Dahl pict., Inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower left: se ipse pinx., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Alecto, a fantastic hag, stands outside the Crown and Anchor tavern between a diminutive Sheridan (left), playing a fife, and Fox (right), a burly drummer, both wearing regimentals. She towers above them, holding a long pike surmounted by a cap of 'Liberty' and holding out to John Bull, a yokel, a handful of 'Assignats'. Hissing serpents form her hair and serpents suck at the pendent breasts which her ragged garments do not cover. She has webbed wings, and wears a French cocked hat with a tricolour cockade inscribed 'Liberty'. She says: "Come on my brave Lad, take this bounty-money, & enter into my Company of Gentlemen Volunteers enlisted in the cause of Liberty - I'll find you present pay and free quarters, & I'll lead you where you shall fill your knapsack with Plunder; - nay Man, never talk about your old Master the Farmer, I'll find you Hundreds of Masters as good as he; Zounds I'll make you one of the Masters of England yourself: - come on, I say, keres riches for you, - come on; the glorious 14th of July is approaching, when Monarchs are to be crush'd like maggots, & brave men like yourself are to be put in their places - here hold your hand, enter boldly in the cause of Freedom, & cry Huzza - Vive la Nation! Huzza". John Bull stands on the left, scratching his head with a puzzled grin; he wears a smock and very wrinkled gaiters; his hat and a pitchfork are in his left hand. He answers: "Wounds, Measter Sarjeant, an I should enter into your sarvice, what'll Varmer-George say to I, for leaving of 'en without warning? - and yet I is half in love with the sound of your drum; & wishes to leave off Ploughing & dunging, & wear one of your vine cockades, & be a French Gentleman; - & yet, dangs it, it goes against ones heart to leave the Varmer; - ah Varmer George has been a rare good Measter to I! - but, am I to have all them fine paper Moneys - but to leave my old Measter! Ah me! I dozes'nt know what to do, not I!" -- British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution's Service, Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonium, and Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonuim, or, The recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution Service
Description:
Title inscribed in brown ink below image., 'Imprint statement' inscribed in brown ink above title: Pub. July 4th, 1791 by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly., Description of published Gillray print in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7889., Wright, T. Description of published Gillray print in Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 130., Wright, T. Description of published Gillray print in Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 56., and A 'counterprint' or transfer in brown ink from another print on verso of mount: The hopes of the party prior to July 14th.
Subject (Name):
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Revolution Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Drums (Musical instruments), Demons, Witches, and Fire
Portrait of Pope Alexander VI; half length, in profile to the right; wearing a red mozetta and a red zucchetto trimmed in white (the Camauro).
Description:
Title inscribed below image, in ink in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 91 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Drawing of one side of an ivory comb that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill. Rows of teeth run along the upper and lower edges on the comb; a decorative motif runs along the right and left edges. In the center of the comb, between the rows of teeth, are depictions of two scenes. On the left, a figure sits in the bath holding a flower while another figure pours water into the bath from a pitcher; the sun shines above. On the right, a figure stands in front of a bed
Alternative Title:
Ancient ivory comb, size of the original
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 118 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1798]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 35 Box D210
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly woman questions a man dressed in a curious combination of professional military uniform and shopkeeper's attire with an apron tide around his waist and a musket propped against his shoulder. The woman exclaims, "Thee looks't very genteel indeed Tommy, I should hardly ha known thee, but I hope the shop is not quite neglected, trade must be minded thee know'st" while the shoppkeeper/soldier responds, "Trade d--n trade! I'm a gemmen and a soljer as Mister Wind-hum says".
Description:
Title from inscriptrion in black ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Attributed to Woodward.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Stores & shops, Commerce, Soldiers, Military uniforms, and Dogs
Portrait of John van Belcamp (ca. 1610-1653), Dutch born artist who was employed in England under Abraham Van der Doort (d. 1640) as a copier of the King's paintings in the court of Charles I.
Description:
Title from inscription below image., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in :Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 101., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Page 121.5. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title of top drawing from note in Horace Walpole's hand written beside it; title of bottom drawing supplied by curator., Unsigned; attributed to Horace Walpole by curator., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., Two small drawings on one sheet, positioned above and below twelve lines of manuscript in Horace Walpole's hand beginning: Sir Jeffery Burwell's mother was daughter & heiress of Jeffery Pitman ..., and Mounted on page 121.5 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.
Half-length, oval portrait of William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester and first Headmaster of Eton, looking slightly left and wearing the mitre and robes of his office; within a decorative border and frame ending with a coat of arms. The two drawings were created in preparation for the engraved portrait print engraved by Jacobus Houbraken and published by John & Paul Knapton in 1742
Alternative Title:
William Waynfleet Bishop of Winchester
Description:
Title from inscription on verso of drawing., Title from inscription on mount under the drawing, in the same hand: Wm. Wainfleet Bishop of Winchester., Also written on the mount under the drawing in block lettering and scored through: The Old Bishop., Portrait is unsigned, but the mount is decorated with a border in ink and wash and signed: H. Gravelot inv. et delin., Counter watermark in center of sheet used as the mount: IV., Local card catalog gives unverified attribution: after Holbein?, and One of ten watercolor portraits and other drawings included in George Vertue's set of engravings: The heads of the most illustrious persons of Great Britain (London : John and Paul Knapton). See all catalog records by searching call number: LWL Folio 724 743 H432 (Oversize).
"The Prince of Wales ..., sword in hand, gallantly protects Britannia against the attack of three conspirators: Pitt raises a headsman's axe in both hands; Grafton, holding a conspirator's lantern, is about to strike her with a dagger; Richmond ... fires a musket, resting one knee on a cannon. The Prince wears a coronet with three ostrich feathers, he holds out his shield behind Britannia, who cowers towards him in terror."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print for which this is the original drawing
Description:
Titled by the artist in brown ink below image., Attributed to Rowlandson., Original drawing for a print of the same title published by H. Holland on 7 February 1789. Cf. No. 7503 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 247.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Design for a Gothic building Lord Strafford's castle Wentworth in Yorkshire, with scale and measurements and notes on the design. In a letter dated 1 September 1760 Walpole wrote to Montagu: " Lord Strafford has erected the little Gothic building which I got Mr. Bentley to draw; I took the idea from Chichester cross -- It stands on a high bank in the menagerie, between a pond and a vale, totally bowered over with oaks."
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript note in ink in upper left corner. and Formerly mounted on leaf 45 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
