Drawing of various containers sitting on an ornate mantel or shelf. Possibly drawn from life at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham; alternatively, it could be a design drawing for the villa
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., With several pencil sketches of a man's arm on verso., and Formerly laid in at page 97 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.
No.1, opposite page 22. Miscellaneous antiquities, or A collection of curious papers ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A drawing of a mounted knight in full armor facing right; his horse, a caparison over its head and hindquarters, is rearing. The banner above the design is blank
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Artist unidentified., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted opposite page 22 in no.1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Miscellaneous antiquities, or A collection of curious papers ... Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXII [1772].
Copy of a seventeenth-century engraved portrait of William Somner, an antiquarian scholar and author. The portait is enclosed in an oval revealing an unfinished scrollwork pattern
Alternative Title:
Mr. Somner
Description:
Title devised by curator., An unfinished copy of a 1693 engraving by Michael Burghers., On verso is another drawing: Effigies Gulielmi Bagwell : aetat. 66 ano. Dom. 1659., Two drawings on one sheet, recto and verso., and For further information, consult library staff.
