Drawing showing the elevation of a three-bay, Gothic-style house with a porch, battlement-style parapet, and two-bay arched windows in roof. On verso a square in ink with small extension of the lines in pencil
Description:
Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: IV., 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.
Drawing showing the elevation for the screen for the Holbein Chamber, the first room of the State Apartment in Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, England; with small details in pen and ink or graphite. On the verso, four small pencil sketches of windows
Description:
Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: IV., 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 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
At the door of the gallery (left) Diego falls back on Jaquez (left), both with frightened expressions at the sight of the giant's foot in the adjoining chamber (right). Behind them on the wall in the gallery hangs a portrait painting (Alfonso).
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Formerly identified as "Manfred and Jaquez with foot of 'ghost'.", and Date based on Horace Walpole's letter (dated 22 February 1796) to Bertie Greatheed's father in which he admires his son's four drawings that were inspired by his reading of The Castle of Otranto. All four drawings are bound in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of The Castle of Otranto (Lewis Walpole Library 49 3729).
On the recto, a pen and ink drawing of a doorway and wall with architectural details including pillars and a cherub. On the verso is the mirror image of the cherub
Description:
Title devised by curator., Formerly housed in the SH Drawings collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Putti, Architectural decorations & ornaments, and Doors & doorways
Title devised by curator., Horace Walpole's note beneath image: Wyke., Note on verso: "Kaye Dowland 1872.", Note on verso, in unknown hand, "No. 219.", Illegible text in image., Formerly mounted and hinged, with residual glue and paper on four corners of the recto., and For further information, consult library staff.