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1. Strawberry Hill [art original]
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of Strawberry Hill (north front) as seen from the lane with fences on either side. A man with a scythe and a woman carrying a baby walk in the road in front of the estate, towards the viewer
- Alternative Title:
- Strawberry Hill, view from the northeast road and Strawberry Hill, north front
- Description:
- Edward Edwards (1738-1806), British painter., Titled, dated, and signed on wash-line mount, bottom edge., and Formerly mounted on page 20 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Twickenham.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Houses, and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Strawberry Hill [art original]
2. Strawberry-Hill [art original]
- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1781]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of the entrance to Strawberry Hill, with a man at the door which stands ajar
- Alternative Title:
- Entrance of Strawberry Hill and Strawberry Hill (entrance)
- Description:
- Edward Edwards (1738-1806), British painter., Title written on mount below image., Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount., and Formerly mounted on page 23 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Twickenham.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Houses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Strawberry-Hill [art original]
3. Temptation of St. Antony [art original]
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1755]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 9++ (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- St. Anthony in a cave kneels in prayer, above him visions of a hare pursued by hounds and hunters. Surrounding him in the cave are a group of men and women either in the process of tempting him or preparing to torture him; a rooster crows in front of him as a frog holds a candle
- Alternative Title:
- Temptation of St. Anthony
- Description:
- Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on the mount, below the drawing., Date from correspondence between Walpole and Bentley, 15 August 1755. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 35, p. 242-3., Signed by Bentley with his monogram in lower left of image., and Formerly mounted on leaf 9 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
- Subject (Name):
- Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, approximately 250-355 or 356.
- Subject (Topic):
- Saints and Temptation
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Temptation of St. Antony [art original]
4. View from above Mr. Bentley's house in Jersey [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1753]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 6b Box 1
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the coastline from Bentley's home in Jersey, Channel Islands
- Alternative Title:
- View from Jersey 1753
- Description:
- Title from mount; titled, attributed, and dated by Horace Walpole in ink on verso. and Formerly mounted on the lower half of leaf 6, with another view in Jersey, in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1761].
- Subject (Geographic):
- Jersey (Channel Islands)
- Subject (Name):
- Bentley, R. 1708-1782 (Richard),
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View from above Mr. Bentley's house in Jersey [art original].
5. View in the cottage-garden at Strawberry Hill [art original]
- Creator:
- Dobbyns
- Published / Created:
- [1786]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of the cottage garden at Strawberry Hill, with the circular pool in the center, bench on the left and wall with an opening with a view of the larger grounds in the distance. A man and woman stroll toward the right, he gesturing with his cane, their reflection in the pool. On the left, a gardener carrying two buckets, bathed in sunlight, walks toward the left
- Alternative Title:
- View in the flower garden
- Description:
- Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand. Also titled by Walpole on former mounting page in volume: View in the flower garden. and Formerly mounted on page 184 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Estates, and Gardens
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View in the cottage-garden at Strawberry Hill [art original]
6. View of Twickenham and part of Richmond Hill from the Blue Room at Strawberry Hill [art original]
- Creator:
- Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1789]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View from the Blue Room at Strawberry Hill, showing in the distance, Twickenham and Richmond Hill, as well as three men and a wheelbarrow in the foreground
- Description:
- Joseph Charles Barrow (fl. 1789-1802), English artist., Title, statement of responsibility, and date written by Horace Walpole on former mounting page in volume., and Formerly mounted on page 7 (formerly F) 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of Twickenham and part of Richmond Hill from the Blue Room at Strawberry Hill [art original]
7. View of the offices at Strawberry-Hill [art original]
- Creator:
- Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1791]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of the offices at Horace Walpole's villa Strawberry Hill, with a view of the grounds and gardens. A well-dressed young gentleman stands with one gardener with a rake in his hand while another gardener behind them bends over a wheelbarrow
- Alternative Title:
- New offices at Strawberry-Hill, designed by James Essex of Cambridge, & built in 1790
- Description:
- Joseph Charles Barrow (fl. 1789-1802), English artist., Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note on verso, in ink in Horace Walpole's hand., Alternative title from note in Thomas Kirgate's hand on former mounting page in volume: The new offices at Strawberry-Hill, designed by James Essex of Cambridge, & built in 1790. Drawn by J.C. Barrow, 1791., and Formerly mounted on page 204 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Essex, James, 1722-1784., Walpole, Horace 1717-1797, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of the offices at Strawberry-Hill [art original]
8. [A music lesson] [art original]
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1736]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents W218 no. 3 Boxed separately, shelved at end of class
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A drawing by Horace Walpole, after Antoine Watteau's painting "Pour nous prouver que cette belle"; a woman sits in a chair perusing the open sheet music in her hands as two young children look on. One man leans on the back of her chair, looking over her shoulder at the sheet music, as another man sits before her tuning his lute. 1774 Description: A man and woman in water-colours, after Watteau; by Mr. Walpole. Formerly hung in Mr. Walpole's Bedchamber
- Description:
- Title assigned by cataloger., Signed and dated in the image, on the side of the chair: Hor. Walpole 1736., Inscription, on the back of the frame, in Horace Walpole's hand: by Horace Walpole., and Place of creation based on the known residence of the artist in 1736.
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Musicians, Lutes, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A music lesson] [art original]
9. [French barracks] [art original]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1786]
- Call Number:
- Drawings R79 no. 19 Box D207
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the interior of busy French barracks shows a more domestic atmosphere than military although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (right) as another child plays at her feet. Beside her another woman holds up a mirror so that an officer can admire his reflection from both the front and back. A third woman (left) cuts an officers toe nails as a barber dresses his long queue; another officer has his hair powdered. In the background a man in his night shirt sits on the side of his bed as he stretches his arms and yawns
- Description:
- Title from engraving based on this drawing, published by S.W. Fores 12 August 1791. and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Foreign opinion, British, Arms & armament, Armor, Barbers, Barracks, French, Breast feeding, Canopy beds, Cats, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Servants, and Yawning
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [French barracks] [art original]
