Page 8. Reminiscences, written in MDCCLXXXVIII, for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the garden gate at Strawberry Hill, Horace's Walpole's estate in Twickenham. Two posts of Gothic design support the metal gates between them, with walls and trees extending on either side of the gate. The path in the foreground continues through to the other side, where more greenery is visible
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner., and Bound in as page 8 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Reminiscences, written in MDCCLXXXVIII, for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry ... London : Printed by Richard Taylor and Co., 1805.
In a rural setting, a young man and woman stand in a wheat field under at tree. They are holding hands, while he recites lines to her. She holds a bundle of wheat in her apron
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '177' in lower right corner of plate., and Caption below the image from James Thomson's The seasons: "And art thou then Acasto's dear remains? She whom my restless gratitude has sought, So long in vain, O Heav'ns! the very frame. The soften'd image of my noble friend."
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
English.
Subject (Name):
Thomson, James, 1700-1748 and Thomson, James, 1700-1748.
