View of an oak tree in the left foreground, next to an urn at extreme right, looking at the view of Abingdon in the background, and the Carfax Conduit in the left middle distance
Description:
Title and date from Stadler aquatint after this drawing. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Nuneham Courtenay (England) and Abingdon (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:
View of Lady Diana Beauclerk's house, known as Little Marble Hill, in Twickenham. The white house stands in the background on the right, partially obscured by a tree; a white picket fence runs along the side of the house; a large tree stands in the center foreground, next to the river; at left is the Thames with a man fishing from a boat
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., Possibly drawn after a drawing by Samuel Lysons that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Red Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 223 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 view of Mount Vernon from the south. Mount Vernon is visible at the summit of a distant hill above the Potomac River. A few boats navigate the waters. In the foreground, just beyond a wooded hillock, a horse and rider pause in a dirt road that passes in front of the family tomb where a standing man gestures at the entrance
Alternative Title:
View of Mount Vernon from the south with the old family vault in the foreground
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Artist unidentified. From 2005 Christie's appraisal: American School, 19th century.
A front view of the estate and building at Mount Vernon with a distant view of the Potomac River and mountain peak. Several tourists are scattered on the lawn and on the front colonnade
Alternative Title:
Front view of Mount Vernon from the north with the east front and lawn
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Artist unidentified. From 2005 Christie's appraisal: American School, 19th century.
A small audience sitting on benches on a tribune next to the equestrian statue of Cosimo I de' Medici in Piazza della Signoria, watching a military parade of the guards of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Lorena (1765-1790), son of the Empress Maria Theresa of Habsburg and brother of Joseph II. The soldiers, forming an L-shaped cordon and led by four battalion officers, are recognizable by their tricorns and the bayonets. At the center of the square, under the grand building of Palazzo Vecchio, stands a troop of drummers. Figures in the the foreground include a group of cavalrymen bearing a banner and followed by a cart on the right; a lady and gentleman waiting for a landau carriage at center; and a figure, maybe a soldier on look-out, watching the scene in Palazzo Uguccioni's shadow on the left
Description:
Title and artist attribution from dealer's description. and Date based on artist's death date.
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Piazza della Signoria (Florence, Italy), and Palazzo vecchio (Florence, Italy),
Subject (Topic):
Plazas, Equestrian statues, Military parades & ceremonies, Spectators, and Carriages & coaches
"View across a cornfield to Hogarth's house at Chiswick and neighbouring houses among trees; in the foreground, to left, a man holding a staff is seated beside a tree with a dog at his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Paulson., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue, viewed October 2023., Published state with imprint: "Publish'd as the Act directs by Jane Hogarth at the Golden-head Leicester Fields 1st May 1781.", Formerly attributed to William Hogarth and dated ca. 1750. See curator's comments in the British Museum catalogue., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Ranby's house., and On page 154 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 10 x 14.9 cm.
Publisher:
Jane Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Chiswick (London, England), England, and Chiswick.
"View across a cornfield to Hogarth's house at Chiswick and neighbouring houses among trees; in the foreground, to left, a man holding a staff is seated beside a tree with a dog at his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Paulson., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue, viewed October 2023., Published state with imprint: "Publish'd as the Act directs by Jane Hogarth at the Golden-head Leicester Fields 1st May 1781.", and Formerly attributed to William Hogarth and dated ca. 1750. See curator's comments in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Jane Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Chiswick (London, England), England, and Chiswick.
LWL Ptg. 104 Framed, on view in Administration Area
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view toward Richmond hill looking over the Thames River. The landscape well-treed. Swans swim in the foreground water. At left a party disembarks from a boat. A couple wait on shore with their dog. Some vessels with sails navigate the river. Buildings stretch across the top of the hill in the distant horizon
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and One of a pair of paintings; the other is entitled: View of Twickenham from Strawberry Hill.
Page 1. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on death date of T. Crofton Croker, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Mounted on page 1 in T. Crofton Croker's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
A view of the south side of Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham, Strawberry Hill, from across the lawn, with the Thames in the distance
Description:
Title devised by curator. and This design is attributed to J. Farington on the print entitled "Strawberry Hill" published by J. & J. Boydell in June 1793 and etched by J.C. Stadler.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Estates, and Buildings, structures, etc
