A view of the front of the temple at Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill includes the circular garden and the ornamental urns planted with small trees leading to the temple's entrance. To the left the doors of the large iron gates are closed. A man sits reading in a bench in the middle of the image, beside the circular garden in front of the temple.
Description:
Artist name and date of execution also etched in lower left corner of image: Rowlandson del. 1822., Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker., and Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Homes and haunts.
"View of a field at harvest with several sheaves already tied, the uncut wheat at left, a woman at centre bending to cut it, two oxen yoked to a plough at right, a party picnicking at foreground left; two houses in the mid-distance at centre between a thick band of trees, low hills beyond."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Cornwall (England : County)
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker.
"View of the new orchestra stand in Vauxhall Gardens at night; lights illuminating front, elegantly dressed figures dancing or watching orchestra in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Vauxhall Gardens
Description:
Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 204., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 88., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)--Pictorial works. and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834. publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bluck, John (Printmaker), printmaker., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832, artist.
Subject (Topic):
Concerts--England--London., Dance., Gardens--England--London., and Orchestras.
"A picnicking party on a grassy bank, a man standing at centre with a fishing rod, a pool at right at which a man and a woman are fishing; steep and wooded rocky cliff behind, a gate halfway up at left."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Cornwall (England : County)
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"A wooded valley descending from a gorge on a distant hill, a small group of houses at centre in the mid-distance, a stream running from nearby to foreground left; at centre, a heavy cart laden with hay sheaves and a woman sitting on top travelling up a path towards the houses, three men walking ahead with the horses, a fourth following on a horse."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Also signed "Rowlandson 1819" in upper left corner of design., Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Bridport (England)
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"An inn on an estuary, many people sitting outside, at left, at long trestle tables, a sign above the door reading 'eel pye house', a man and maid bringing out dishes, trees behind the inn; in the foreground, small boats moored, two men and a dog sitting nearby on the bank, a sign hanging from a dead tree at the water's edge, boathouse in the mid-distance; water to right with distant hills beyond."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Newport (Isle of Wight, England)
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-30b
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"View of a river descending to left down a short series of waterfalls, a shepherd and a woman on a grassy bank at right looking out to left, with dog and flock of sheep; tall rocky hill rising immediately behind the river."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0612.377., Early state, before alterations to the plate. For a later state with the title re-etched, Rowlandson's signature burnished away, and a border and a new statement of responsibility added, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 14., Reworked plate published in: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Cornwall (England : County)
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Riviere & Son Binding.
"View of a river descending to left down a short series of waterfalls, a shepherd and a woman on a grassy bank at right looking out to left, with dog and flock of sheep; tall rocky hill rising immediately behind the river."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Cornwall (England : County)
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"View up a street with thatched houses on either side; in the foreground at centre a man leaning over a fence, looking over to a group of people outside a cottage at right, a mother seated and nursing a baby, three other children beside her, a man seated and dandling a child, and a woman in the doorway, next to which is hanging a bird in a cage."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Cornwall (England : County)
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker.
"View of the bay at West Looe, beach in foreground with three men repairing the bottom of one fishing boat with pitch and three men unloading baskets from another; river behind running from between the arches of a bridge at left to the sea at right, and low cliff jutting up behind with a small row of houses at centre; tree-covered hill behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
West Looe, Cornwall
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Cornwall (England : County)
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.