Caption title., Not printed at Strawberry Hill., Publication information from page [2]., Written for the first performance of Mary Berry's play., and Mounted on page 18 with playbill for a Strawberry Hill performance of The fashionable friends.
Caption title., Not printed at Strawberry Hill., Publication information from page [2]., Written for the first performance of Mary Berry's play., and Mounted on page 18 with playbill for a Strawberry Hill performance of The fashionable friends.
Portrait of Mrs. Damer, seated and leaning her left arm against a pedestal, with a bouquet of flowers in her left hand
Alternative Title:
Honorable Anne Damer
Description:
Title etched below image., Tipped in at page 201 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., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on laid paper ; sheet 27.6 x 24.3 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1793, by S. Watts, No. 9 Kennington Cross, Lambeth, & to be had of T. Ryder, No. 43 Great Titchfield St., Oxford Road
Portrait of Mrs. Damer, seated and leaning her left arm against a pedestal, with a bouquet of flowers in her left hand
Alternative Title:
Honorable Anne Damer
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 261 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., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on laid paper ; sheet 27.1 x 20 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge with loss of imprint statement., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1793, by S. Watts, No. 9 Kennington Cross, Lambeth, & to be had of T. Ryder, No. 43 Great Titchfield St., Oxford Road
Portrait of Mrs. Damer, seated and leaning her left arm against a pedestal, with a bouquet of flowers in her left hand
Alternative Title:
Honorable Anne Damer
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on page 26.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1793, by S. Watts, No. 9 Kennington Cross, Lambeth, & to be had of T. Ryder, No. 43 Great Titchfield St., Oxford Road
Cooper, Richard, approximately 1730-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1810]
Call Number:
Portraits D157 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A three-quarter length portrait of Mrs. Damer, with sculptor's tools at the base
Alternative Title:
Honourable Mrs. Damer
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as Angelica Kauffmann in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Frontispiece to: La Belle assemblée, April 1810., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Cooper, Richard, approximately 1730-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1810]
Call Number:
810.04.01.01 Object Room B:D
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A three-quarter length portrait of Mrs. Damer, with sculptor's tools at the base
Alternative Title:
Honourable Mrs. Damer
Description:
Title from item., Artist identified as Angelica Kauffmann in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate engraved for the frontispiece to La Belle assemblée, April 1810., and With plate maker's name stamped on verso: G. Harris No. 31 Shoe Lane, London.
A journal kept by Horace Walpole that documents the business of running Strawberry Hill Press, his private printing press at his home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, England. Starting on 25 June 1757 with the erection of the press by William Robinson, the first of several printers hired by Horace Walpole to operate his press, the journal contains a list of the titles published, receipts for payment to the printers and their assistants, the indenture of Joseph Forrester, correspondence between Walpole and his printers about operations and the choice of engravers, receipts for supplies, newspaper clippings announcing the publications from the press, and two vignettes used in the Press's publications. With a medley print by Jacobus Houbraken on front paste-down with portraits of early printers: Joannes Gutenburg, Joannes Faustus, Laurentius Costerus, Aldus Manucius, and Joannes Frobenius which was also the frontispiece to volume 1 of Michael Maittaire's work Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad annum MD (Hagae-Comitum: Apud Idssvu, Valillant, MDCCXIX. Also with two prints by Edward Edwards: tFarm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill; and, a portrait of Thomas Kirgate
Description:
Title from text at head of page 1, in Walpole's hand. and In English with some French.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1808]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
Collection Title:
Page 103. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Henry VII as an older man; bust-length, turned slightly right; clean-shaven; a soft hat decorated with a brooch covering his gray hair; dressed in a gold fur-trimmed jacket, embroidered, over a scarlet shirt
Alternative Title:
King Henry VII
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner., and Mounted on page 103 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547, and Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
