Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 46a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a chair, possibly the "chair covered with purple cloth" that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein at Strawberry Hill. The purple cushion, with two tassels hanging from the front, sits in a simple wood frame; the arms and back of the chair are upholstered in the same purple fabric secured at the edges with furniture nails
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Inlaid on page 46a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor drawing showing three chairs kept by Horace Walpole in the Star Chamber at Strawberry Hill. At top is depicted a chair with a triangular seat; below are two small Welsh armchairs, blue and white with cushions of point-lace, the one on the right also having the arms of Mr. Richard Bateman on its backrest
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 108 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1806]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
Collection Title:
Page 15. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the chancel in St. Mary's Church, Sundridge, Kent, with the altar at center beneath a large stained-glass, Gothic window and monuments to the left and right of the altar beyond the altar rail. Visible in an alcove on the right is the bust of Lady Ailesbury, made by her daughter Anne Seymour Damer
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner., and Mounted on page 15 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
Subject (Geographic):
Kent (England)
Subject (Name):
Ailesbury, Caroline Campbell, Countess of, 1721-1803. and Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Interiors, Chancels, Altars, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Windows
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor drawing depicting a female figure carrying a young child in each arm; from the painted glass window in the Library at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 84 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor drawing depicting part of the Little Cloister at Strawberry Hill, with a view of the china fish bowl in which Horace Walpole's cat drowned
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 15 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Conrad seen lying under an enormous helmet at the left end of a large, open courtyard. The helmet, topped by large black feathers, obscures all of Conrad's body except for his legs. A crowd has gathered and several men attempt to lift the helmet off its victim. In the background the arched colonnades of the castle terminate in an arched gate on the right; a round tower rises at center above the colonnades. In the left foreground is a wall with an arched window above an arched door, an armorial shield mounted between them
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date of production supplied by curator., and Mounted opposite page 5 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Castles & palaces, Courtyards, Colonnades, Helmets, and Dead persons
View of the monument erected in 1773 in Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire, by John Fitzpatrick, Earl of Upper Ossory. The large cross on its terraced base, seen in the middle distance surrounded by trees and other greenery, sits at the site of the house where Queen Catherine of Aragon resided while her divorce from King Henry VIII was under discussion
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Questionable attribution to Horace Walpole suggested by pencil annotation on verso: Must be drawn by H.W. ipse., Date of production supplied by cataloger., Drawing mounted opposite a description, in Thomas Kirgate's hand, of the location of the monument and a transcription of the lines written by Horace Walpole that were inscribed on its base., and Mounted on page 20a in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
Subject (Name):
Catherine, of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentifed., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 27 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Watercolor 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 devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., 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., and Mounted on page 189 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Dee, John, 1527-1608. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a jug-like bottle with a handle that was owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill. This type of bottle was sold by apothecaries, and this particular example was from the collection of Mrs. Kennon, the virtuosa midwife
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 31 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
