A drawing of the Gothic lantern that hung in the hallway at Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Lanthorn at Strawberryhill, Lanthorn at Strawberry Hill, and Lantern at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title written in ink in Horace Walpole's hand on verso of drawing., Title written in ink in Horace Walpole's hand on mount: Lanthorn at Strawberryhill., Date based on Horace Walpole's correspondence with George Montagu 11 June 1753 (Yale edition, Horace Walpole's correspondence, vol. 3, p. 164)., and Formerly mounted on leaf 31 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
On the recto, a drawing showing a Gothic steeple with a clock on a section of tile roof. On the verso, a small pencil sketch of a detail of a clock?
Alternative Title:
Design for Nich. Hardinge Esq. by R. Bentley 1753
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's note in ink on mount below drawing. and Formerly mounted on leaf 40 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Drawing of the the bas-relief head in marble of Leonora d'Este, which was kept by Horace Walpole in the Little Cloister at Strawberry Hill. The portrait, in profile to the left, has the inscription "Dia Helionora" below it.
Alternative Title:
Basso relievo in Little Cloyster and Basso relievo in Little Cloister
Description:
Title from inscription in image; alternative 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 31 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.
Drawing depicting a speculum of kennel-coal, in a leather case, that was supposedly used by Dr. Dee the conjurer to deceive the mob in the reign of Queen Elizabeth
Description:
Title written in ink below image on mounting page., 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., Depicted object was formerly owned by Horace Walpole and kept in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill. For a description of the object, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1966,1001.1., Mounted on page 215 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.
Subject (Name):
Dee, John, 1527-1608. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A portrait drawing of Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despencer, 1335 or 6-1375, wearing a bascinet helmet connected to a chainmail sheath around his neck. A tunic dyed in a red and gold latticework pattern is worn over a suit or platemail armor
Alternative Title:
Edward Lord Despenser 1375, Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, and Francis Dashwood, Baron le Despencer
Description:
Title from pencil inscription below image. Inscription continues: ... "Tewkesbury Cathedral." and For further information, consult library staff.
Elevation of a Cottage for the Honorable Horace Walpole, near Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title at top of sheet, scale drawn in below image., Artist's name inscribed by Horace Walpole, recto lower left corner: Robt Adam Architect 1766., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: (London Sale, Lot 1248): Ditto [drawings] Views of Strawberry Hill and of the Villa of Lady Diana Beauclerc at Twickenham, by J. Barrow, 1789, and 4 designs for a Cottage, etc. at Strawberry Hill, by Robert Adams, architect, 1767, etc."
Inscription on verso, in ink: "Entrance of the villa at Strawberry Hill. E.E. 1781.", Signed and dated lower right corner of image: "E.E. 1781"., Numbered in pencil on verso: "No. J"., Note in pencil in unknown hand: "The print of this in the Description, 1784 has slight differences: pot with shrub missing, includes more at right, + top. This is surely Edward's original watercolor for the famous print however.", Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
SH Contents C323 no. 2 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 68
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor drawing representing the procession in the romance of the Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Description:
John Carter (1748-1817), British draughtsman and antiquary., Signed and titled by the artist, lower center. Same text transcribed in another hand on verso., and Later label on verso: This picture was painted by John Carter (1748-1817) and was exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1790. It belonged to Horace Walpole and was at Strawberry Hill until the sale in 1842 when it was bought by the Reverend Horace Cholmondeley from whom it came through his daughter and grand-daughter to H.C.J.
An album of prints with some drawings by Henry William Bunbury, assembled by Horace Walpole (ca. 1776-1782), and mounted with captions by Walpole along with prints etched or engraved after Bunbury designs by: W. Dickinson, F. Bartolozzi, Thomas Watson, J. Bretherton, J. Baldrey, and P.W. White. Includes a series "Hints to bad horsemen" and a portrait by Joshua Reynolds of a young Bunbury engraved by T. Blackmore
Description:
Title vignette., Title from t.p. printed at Strawberry Hill Press by Thomas Kirgate, mounted on p. [1]., and Original marbled boards with calf backs. Bookplate 2 early state. (Later state in the second volume). Press-mark C.19. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811. and Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811,
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Pictorial, Animals, Horseback riding, Horses, Jumping (Horsemanship), and Peasants
An album of prints with some drawings by Henry William Bunbury, assembled by Horace Walpole (ca. 1776-1782), and mounted with captions by Walpole along with prints etched or engraved after Bunbury designs by: W. Dickinson, F. Bartolozzi, Thomas Watson, J. Bretherton, J. Baldrey, and P.W. White. Includes a series "Hints to bad horsemen" and a portrait by Joshua Reynolds of a young Bunbury engraved by T. Blackmore
Description:
Title vignette., Title from t.p. printed at Strawberry Hill Press by Thomas Kirgate, mounted on p. [1]., and Original marbled boards with calf backs. Bookplate 2 early state. (Later state in the second volume). Press-mark C.19. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811. and Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811,
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Pictorial, Animals, Horseback riding, Horses, Jumping (Horsemanship), and Peasants