Drawing of various containers sitting on an ornate mantel or shelf. Possibly drawn from life at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham; alternatively, it could be a design drawing for the villa
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., With several pencil sketches of a man's arm on verso., and Formerly laid in at page 97 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.
Title from note on verso in Thomas Kirgate's hand, partially trimmed., Signed in image with the initials "S.H." [i.e. Sylvester Harding]., Date based on known visit by Harding to Strawberry Hill. See Walpole's Book of visitors., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Sylvester Harding (1745-1809), English, miniature painter, draughtsman, and print publisher., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
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)
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
Drawing of Theobalds framed by two pencilled lines and mounted on a secondary sheet
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Ms. note left unmounted., Drawing attributed to Vertue in pencil on the mount above. Identification from early sales catalog which has been questioned by former owner. Suggested alternative identification: Oatlands Palace (Surrey) from a painting by Van Somer in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
A drawing by Bentley showing a lion reclining on his side in front of a cave
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date and attribution from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso., and Formerly mounted on leaf 10 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
No.1, opposite page 22. Miscellaneous antiquities, or A collection of curious papers ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A drawing of a mounted knight in full armor facing right; his horse, a caparison over its head and hindquarters, is rearing. The banner above the design is blank
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Artist unidentified., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted opposite page 22 in no.1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Miscellaneous antiquities, or A collection of curious papers ... Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXII [1772].
View from the west front at Strawberry Hill, from the across the road. A man in the road, leaning on the walking stick in his left hand appears to gesture with his right hand over at the turret of the villa beyond the brick wall which surrounds the villa
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Signed and dated in lower right corner of image: "J.C. Barrow 1789."
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, Houses, Buildings, structures, etc, and Estates
