View of a house supposedly near Putney Common, satirically called 'Bear's Den Hall', a rickety house with cracked plaster walls and a chimney-stack with broken brick, and with weeds growing from the cracks and on the roof. A key at the top references many of the features of the scene, including a bear is chained by the front door (B) at the left, birds in flight (K). The property is separated from the road in the foreground by a wicket fence, with a satircial armorial crest along the lower edge with portraits of Charles Christian and Skelton and Satire on social pretensions: a view of a dilapidated cottage set into a garden behind a wooden fence, with a mock coat-of-arms at the bottom.--From variant state in the British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker identified as Charles Christian Reisen in the British Museum online catalogue. An alternative attribution to George Vertue derives from a contemporary marginal note on an impression in the Royal Collection (RCIN 701972)., Early state, before Greek motto added at bottom of image. For a later state with this added text, see no. 1695 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2., Approximate date of publication from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "This cottage was the country residence on Putney Heath of C. C. Reisen, seal engraver and painter, and Skelton, upholsterer, and kept at their joint expense"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1847,0713.15)., and "The print is not a satire, but rather a jokey plate made for private distribution to friends"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1866,1110.1468).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Reisen, Charles Christian, 1680-1725, and Skelton, Humphrey, active 1720s,
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A wife has chased her husband out of the house and comes up behind him, holding a broom above her head, ready to strike. He has stopped to pray, hands clasped in front of his chest. Through the open door of their house a chair and some shelves can be seen; a set of antlers hangs above the doorway. The face of another person is visible in a second-story window; they peer out at the scene, amused
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink below image., Signed in upper right corner with the artist's initials., Date from local card catalog record., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Admission ticket to the Phillips showing of Fonthill Abbey in 1823. The image on the ticket, enclosed within a double-pointed oval border, depicts the eastern towers of the house with the central tower beyond. Beneath are blank panels, left and right, linked by a smaller central panal labeled 'Visitors.' At the bottom are two detachable tokens bearing the initials 'HP' and 'FA' within roundels
Alternative Title:
Fonthill Abbey 1823
Description:
Title from text within border of image., For a probable later state with the text within the image border reengraved to allow admission of two visitors instead of three, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Babb-Beckford no. 90., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of both tokens from bottom edge., With contemporary annotations in ink, including the signature of auctioneer Harry Phillips and the names of the three visitors using the ticket., and Mounted to 31 x 24 cm on heavy blue paper with embossed border.
Admission ticket to the Phillips showing of Fonthill Abbey in 1823. The image on the ticket, enclosed within a double-pointed oval border, depicts the eastern towers of the house with the central tower beyond. Beneath are blank panels, left and right, linked by a smaller central panal labeled 'Visitors.' At the bottom are two detachable tokens bearing the initials 'HP' and 'FA' within roundels
Alternative Title:
Fonthill Abbey 1823
Description:
Title from text within border of image., Probably a later state, with the text within the image border reengraved to allow admission of two visitors instead of three. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Babb-Beckford no. 91., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of token from the lower right., Imperfect; the word "two" before "visitors" within image border has been mostly erased from sheet and the word "one" written in ink in its place, and the "s" at the end of "visitors" has been erased in both occurrences of that word., and With contemporary annotations in ink, including the signature of auctioneer Harry Phillips, the name of the visitor using the ticket, the ticket number "258," and the price "10/6."
Watercolor drawing of Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham, as viewed from the northeast down a road. The front of the house is seen in the distance, through an opening in the dense foliage of the trees on both sides of the road. A man in the foreground walks on the left edge of the road next to a wooden fence; blue sky and white clouds are seen above the trees
Alternative Title:
View in the avenue looking southwest
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 18 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings
Title from inscription in unknown hand below image: "View of Strawberry Hill by Capn. Grose - given to me by him - May 1787.", Notation on verso: "No. I"., Formerly titled in repository: East front., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Francis Grose, (bap. 1731, d. 1791), Eglish antiquary., and For further information, consult library staff.
View of Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's estate in Twickenham. The house is seen in the distance, partially obscured by the surrounding trees. Three horses walk towards a man on the lawn in the foreground; four cows rest nearby in the shadows beneath a row of trees. Clouds fill the sky above
Description:
Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand. and Formerly mounted on page 16 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.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Watercolor drawing of Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's estate in Twickenham. The house, mostly obscured by the surrounding trees, is visible in the distance. A fence separates the house from the lawn, on which a woman and a girl walk. In the left foreground are two cows, one standing and one lying down. Clouds fill the sky; a few birds fly above
Description:
Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand., Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount: E.E. 1781., and Formerly laid in 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.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A view of the cottage from the garden at Strawberry Hill shows a worker pushing a wheelbarrow on the right with other workers in the distance on the left. In the distance, beyond the grove of trees the viewed sees the Thames and Richmond Hill in the distance
Alternative Title:
View of the cottage at Strawberry Hill from the west
Description:
Inscribed by Horace Walpole on verso with the artist's name, title, and date.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Dwellings, Estates, and Outbuildings
