Volume 12, page 214. Horace Walpole and his world.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing with two scenes: 'the back parlour" in an oval within a larger rectangular view of a 'park wall'. The park wall is covered in ivy and at its base, lush ferns and other plants and mushrooms, ferns and at the top a stand of trees. The oval inset in the lower right shows a man view from behind, sitting in a chair looking out a window at a city street scene and two birds at perched on the vine before a leadlight casement window
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation by Horace Walpole's letter to Miss Berry December 1793: "A park-wall with ivy on it and fern near it, and a back parlour in London in summer, with a dead creeper and a couple of sooty sparrows, are my strongest ideas of melancholy solitude. A pleasing melancholy is a very august personage, but not at all good company.”, Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 288., and Bound in as page 214 in volume 12 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Subject (Topic):
Parlors, Garden walls, Casement windows, and Depression (Mental state)
In a circular drawing framed by trees in the foreground, a view of the cottage called Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, owned by the fashionable toy dealer Mrs. Chenevix and purchased in 1748 by Horace Walpole. The small ivy-covered house stands at center surrounded by green meadows divided by hedgerows; the Thames is barely visible in the distance on the right. In the foreground a gentleman with a walking stick passes a stile
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Title written below image, from a quotation in Horace Walpole's letter to Henry Seymour Conway, 8 June 1747., Signed and dated by the artist in lower portion of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 12., and Bound in as page 132 in volume 1 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
A view of a church steeple rising above a lush stand of trees in the foreground and middle distance, the arc of a rainbow directly behind the cross at its top and across the width of the drawing; with dark clouds above. On the hills on the right a tower and on the left the buildings of Claremont
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation from Horace Walpole's letter to George Montagu, written in May, 1763: We walked to the Belvidere on the summit of the hill, where a theatrical storm only served to heighten the beauty of the landscape, a rainbow on a dark cloud falling precisely behind the tower of a neighbouring church, between another tower and the building at Claremont., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 84., and Bound in as page 112 in volume 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
A drawing with two images: the circular image on top shows three women and a man in a picture gallery, their backs to the viewer, discussing a painting on the wall. Below, separated by an image of two feathers, is a rectangular, framed still life with a lobster on a plate surrounded by a headless game bird, a jug, a pitcher, and vegetables
Description:
Title written below image. From a quotation from Horace Walpole's letter to 25 March 1761 written from Houghton: A party arrived, just as I did, to see the house, a man and three women in riding-dresses, and they rode post through the apartments. I could not hurry before them fast enough; they were not so long in seeing for the first time, as I could have been in one room, to examine what I knew by heart. I remember formerly being often diverted with this kind of seers; they come, ask what such a room is called, in which Sir Robert lay, write it down, admire a lobster or a cabbage in a market-piece, dispute whether the last room was green or purple, and then hurry to the inn for fear the fish should be overdressed., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 68., and Bound in as page 144 in volume 3 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Drawing of a young woman, full-length, turned slightly right, wearing a her hair in a cap; she holds a wicker basket in the crook of each arm, filled with strawberries and cherries, She stands on a wooden platform in front of a fence constructed of tree branches in front of dense hedge of greenery
Description:
Title written below image. From a quotation in Horace Walpole's letter to George Montagu 23 June 1750: We minced seven chickens ... which Lady Caroline stewed over a lamp ... She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with hampers of strawberries and cherries from Rogers's, and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by us at a little table., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 52., and Bound in as page 220 in volume 2 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
A pastoral view of a lush riverbank covered in trees, shrubs, and flowers, and other greenery. A man sits on a rock near the shore and looks to the right out over the water. A house on the opposite bank can be seen in the distance on the right; gray clouds fill the sky above
Description:
Title written below image. A quotation from Horace Walpole's letter 16 October 1769 to Madame du Deffand: I feel myself here like a swan, that, after living six weeks in a nasty pool upon a common, is got back into its own Thames. I do nothing but plume and clean myself, and enjoy the verdure and silent waves., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 109., and Bound in as page 65 in volume 5 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Depiction of the dream of Horace Walpole that inspired him to write The castle of Otranto. The fantastic scene involves a large armored hand perched atop an enormous staircase ascending four levels within a Gothic castle. Two suits of armor stand guard at the junctions of the staircase with each level, and two more are present in the foreground, suggesting that the staircase continues downward. Arched windows and a painting of a mounted knight are seen on the wall to the left of the staircase; a bat is seen flying above
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 93., and Bound as page 195 in volume 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Lady Cecilia Johnston, shown three-quarter length, turns slightly left but looking back over her shoulder as she reaches for a carafe on an elaborately carved hutch in a fashionably decorated room. She wears a dress with lace sleeves, her hair up in a lace cap. Behind her on the right, one cat is curled in an upholstered chair while another sits in front. Through the window behind, a winter scene, with snow covering the ground, a church, and a leafless tree
Description:
Title written below image, a quotation from Horace Walpole's letter to Lord Nunham, 7 July 1777 in reference to Lady Cecilia Johnston., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 150., and Bound in as page 234 in volume 6 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Drawing of a stagecoach driving to the left down a dirt road, the four horse team in full gallop. Two passengers ride on top of the coach along with the driver and bugler; several passengers inside can be seen through the windows. Trees line the road, with the top of a church or cathedral visible directly behind the coach and the spire of another church barely visible in the distance at the end of the road. A river or stream occupies the forground and enters an arched tunnel that disappears under the road
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 288., and Bound in as page 222 in volume 12 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
View of a large house, perhaps meant to be Houghton Hall, rising from a hill in the middle distance. Trees and thick undergrowth obscure the lower floors of the house and provide a green backdrop for an ornate staircase in the foreground, upon which a man with a walking stick stands
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 67., and Bound in as page 141 in volume 3 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
