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- Creator:
- Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611-1668, author
- Published / Created:
- MDCXCV [1695]
- Call Number:
- 49 296A
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Art of painting and Short account of the most eminent painters both ancient and modern
- Description:
- Signatures: [pi]² a-h⁴ B-2Y⁴ 2Z²., Translation of: De arte graphica., Added title-page, engraved by S. Gribelin., Title page in red and black., Includes the original poem in Latin; translated from the French version of R. de Piles., 'A short account of the most eminent painters ... ' [by R. Graham] has special title-page., Errata: p. [356], Original panelled calf; it was quite probably a copy kept in the house in town and bequeathed to Lady Waldegrave. Mr. Harris Prior of Geneva, N.Y., also owns a copy of the edition of 1695, in which Horace Walpole's bookplate has been inserted., and Laid in is the lining paper of a copy of this edition in which Horace Walpole's bookplate had been inserted, owned by Harris Prior. No press mark was found. With four architectural sketches in pencil on front flyleaf.
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Heptinstall for W. Rogers, at the Sun against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet
- Subject (Topic):
- Painters and Painting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > De arte graphica : the art of painting
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- Creator:
- Chute, John, 1701-1776
- Published / Created:
- [1753]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3490
- Image Count:
- 173
- Abstract:
- A collection of approximately 130 drawings and sketches by John Chute and one etching and engraving entitled Chaucer's Grove by P. Mazell (artist James Pettit Andrews) given to Horace Walpole, for his renovation of Strawberry Hill, bound in one volume and with an additional 23 loose leaves, including sketches for the Gallery, Round Tower, and one inspired by a doorcase in Dugdale's St. Paul's for the presses in the Library. Some of the drawings have been annotated by Walpole and/or Thomas Kirgate
- Alternative Title:
- Original drawings and sketches
- Description:
- Title from ms. title page in Horace Walpole's hand., Title from Hazen: Original drawings and sketches., In English., John Chute (1701-1776), English architect and connoisseur of the arts and literature, member of Horace Walpole's 'Strawberry committee.', Bound in original marbled boards., Inscribed on front fly leaf: "Lady Waldegrave from W.V. Harcourt, July 5, 1887.", On front pastedown, Carlingford's bookplate., Marble boards with half-leather. Written in ink in unidentified hand on front cover: Strawberry Hill (drawings). Paper lable on spine: "33.", The 3 volumes consist of 1 album and 2 cases., and Original marbled boards. Second Strawberry Hill Sale fleuron used as bookplate. Press-mark K.13, but moved to the Closet. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; probably kept in the Glass Closet until 1790. Inscribed on the fly-leaf: 'Lady Waldegrave from W.V. Harcourt, July 6, 1867.' Bookplate of Lord Carlingford, who married Lady Waldegrave in 1863.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Country homes, and Buildings, structures, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Slight sketches of architecture by John Chute, Esq., of the Vine in Hampshire,1753 [art original].
4.
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Published / Created:
- MDCCLXVIII [1768]
- Call Number:
- 49 2528A
- Image Count:
- 143
- Description:
- The postscript is separately paginated., Extra-illustrated, interleaved copy, with Horace Walpole's note on title-page: "With MSS alterations by Mr. Mason." Mason sent his proposed alterations to Horace Walpole in a Ietter, 8 May 1769; Horace Walpole thanked him warmly, but wrote on Mason's letter that he did not wish to adopt the alterations. Mason mentioned the book in his letter to Horace Walpole, 15 May 1781; after Mason's death it is first reported in a letter (tipped in the book) from Lord Carlingford to F.W. Cozens, 8 May 1878, assuring him that the notes are by Mason., Horace Walpole's corrections: p. 8 and 34. Also with unidentified ms. notes., Lower right corner of leaf C2 torn with some loss of text., Bound in red morocco ca.1870 by Jenkins &: Cecil., With the armorial bookplates of C.G. Milnes Gaskell and S.A. Courtauld., and Autograph letter signed Lord Carlingford to F.W. Cosens, 8 May 1878 bound in.
- Publisher:
- Printed at Strawberry-Hill
- Subject (Topic):
- Verse drama, English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The mysterious mother ...
