A collage with a wash drawing depicting native people of Mexico on a hillside with the sky above, mounted in the center of which is an engraving of a view of a walled city surrounded by a river, the arrangement giving the impression that the two drawn figures are looking out over a valley at the settlement in the distance below them. A couple prominent in the left foreground, stand in front of a tree; the man faces the viewer and wears a feathered headdress and loin cloth; the spear in his right hand rests on his right shoulder; the shield in his left hand is propped up against the ground. The woman with her back to the viewer, wears a sleeveless top, a skirt, and sandals; her long hair falls past her waist; food items are visible within the basket she carries in the crook of her right arm. Two other figures work in the clearing below
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production inferred from associated engravings mounted in the same extra-illustrated volume, many of which were published in London in the eighteenth century., and Mounted on page 134 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.
Portrait of Mary Berry; bust length, looking to the right; wearing her hair loose and curly
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Statement of responsibility written in brown ink in lower left corner of sheet., Probably copied from a print by Henry Adlard after a miniature by Anne Mee. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1939,0513.140., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Date from decorated title page indicating that the volumes of this copy were "... privately illustrated 1884-1890"., and Mounted on page 160 in volume 11 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.
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, bust-length in profile to right, wearing wig, open coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; in round frame in form of a miniature, with ribbon through ring at the top, and tablet below; after Falconet; state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched in open letters on tablet below image., Pariset worked for Ryland and later Falconet on a series of portraits of members of the Royal Academy. See the advertisement in the 'Mercure de France' of October 1783 (page 142)., Price following imprint: Pr. 2s., Formerly laid inside front cover of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by P. Falconet, Broad Street, Carnaby Market, & Ryland, Bryer, & Co., Cornhill
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, bust-length in profile to right, wearing wig, open coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; in round frame in form of a miniature, with ribbon through ring at the top, and tablet below; after Falconet; state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched in open letters on tablet below image., Pariset worked for Ryland and later Falconet on a series of portraits of members of the Royal Academy. See the advertisement in the 'Mercure de France' of October 1783 (page 142)., Price following imprint: Pr. 2s., Mounted opposite first half-title page in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3., 1 print : stipple engraving on laid paper ; sheet 21.1 x 14.1 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Sold by P. Falconet, Broad Street, Carnaby Market, & Ryland, Bryer, & Co., Cornhill
"Portrait of Robert Walpole, half length to the left, looking at the viewer, wearing long wig and lace cravat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Coxe, W. Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; oval image 14.4 x 13 cm, on sheet 16.5 x 14 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of second line of title from bottom edge., and Mounted on page 62 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.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 1, 1801 [that is, 1802], by the Revd. W. Coxe, London
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, 1650-1700, and Wolterton Hall (England)
Half length portrait, inclined left, looking front; in long curled wig, plain collar, doublet with slashed sleeves, badge on ribbon over right shoulder
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Coxe, W. Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802., Probably after a painting of Sir Edward Walpole, grandfather of Sir Robert Walpole, that hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; oval image 15.3 x 13 cm, on sheet 20.5 x 17 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint from bottom edge., and Mounted on page 21 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.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 1, 1802, by the Revd. W. Coxe, London
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Edward, Sir, 1621-1667, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Sir Edward Walpole, turned to the left, wearing a long wig and the robes of the Bath
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed by the artist in gold paint in lower right corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 85 in volume 7 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 (Name):
Walpole, Edward, Sir, 1706-1784, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Watson, James, approximately 1740-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1788]
Call Number:
Portraits W218A no. 2++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, whole-length standing three-quarter to right, right hand on the chancerial burse, propped on a table to left, holding a document in left hand, wearing ornate embroidered robe over his suit, a sash from left shoulder, lace cravat and long wig, with a classical statue in the garden beyond the balustrade to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., and Frontispiece to the second volume of: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia - lately in the possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1st, 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, London
A view of Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill in Twickenham as seen from the south lawn, with the Thames River and Richmond in the distance on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Combe, W. An history of the River Thames. London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for John and Josiah Boydell, 1794., and Watermark: "Not bleached 1825".
Publisher:
Pub. June 1, 1793, by J. & J. Boydell, Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Architecture, Domestic, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Housing
