"A woman sitting on a stool in a landscape, looking up from her writing, upon a wedge on her lap, a cat reaching up to her knee for attention at left, a man packing a gun through a fence beside a house at right, a tower and woods in the distance beyond at left; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., For an earlier state, published 12 November 1781 by J. Baldrey and sold by R. Wilkinson, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3003., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text below title: "The rival of the parson's maid was she." Gay., Companion print to: Marian., Plate numbered "6" above image., and Mounted on page 33 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 25, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Watercolor drawing of Little Strawberry Hill, which was home to the actress Kitty Clive in the 1780's and then to Mary and Agnes Berry after 1791. Trees flank either side of the house and a hedgerow separates the structure from the figures in the foreground. A man works in the garden on the left while a gentleman and lady walk arm in arm in the center of the image
Description:
Titled in Thomas Kirgate's hand below image on mounting page., Attribution to Joseph Charles Barrow from local catalog card., and Mounted on page 5 (formerly D) 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 (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Berry, Mary, 1763-1852, and Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Estates
"Two men sit in a dilapidated room, the floor completely covered by water in which three pigs wade, ducks swim and dive, and geese run aggressively towards a dog. Their feet rest on boulders. One stout man in a broken chair sits with his elbows on a small round table, holding up a large watch, the hands showing that it is 9.40, and yawning deeply. On the table are a decanter containing a tiny 'blue devil', cf. British Museum Satires No. 8745, and a guttering candle stuck in a potato at which a rat is nibbling. Another rat runs up the table leg. The other man (right), with closed eyes, and hands on knees, sits on a stool, registering melancholy resignation. One pig (left) devours a 'Racing Calendar' which floats on the water. A fire of sticks burns smokily on a wide hearth; a large pot is overturning, the contents gushing over. Above the chimney-piece hangs a picture in a broken frame of a country house. There is one small casement window, half boarded up, the other half partly stuffed up with a pair of breeches. A ham and a hare hang from hooks in the ceiling. High up on the wall is a small shelf on which is broken china; a cat stands on it."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Possibly etched after a design by Bunbury; see British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"Two men sit in a dilapidated room, the floor completely covered by water in which three pigs wade, ducks swim and dive, and geese run aggressively towards a dog. Their feet rest on boulders. One stout man in a broken chair sits with his elbows on a small round table, holding up a large watch, the hands showing that it is 9.40, and yawning deeply. On the table are a decanter containing a tiny 'blue devil', cf. British Museum Satires No. 8745, and a guttering candle stuck in a potato at which a rat is nibbling. Another rat runs up the table leg. The other man (right), with closed eyes, and hands on knees, sits on a stool, registering melancholy resignation. One pig (left) devours a 'Racing Calendar' which floats on the water. A fire of sticks burns smokily on a wide hearth; a large pot is overturning, the contents gushing over. Above the chimney-piece hangs a picture in a broken frame of a country house. There is one small casement window, half boarded up, the other half partly stuffed up with a pair of breeches. A ham and a hare hang from hooks in the ceiling. High up on the wall is a small shelf on which is broken china; a cat stands on it."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly etched after a design by Bunbury; see British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 24.4 x 34 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark. Mounted on page 24.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Inscription in Thomas Kirgate's hand on verso (not visible): "Cottage at Strawberry Hill, by J.C. Barrow.", Note in pencil in a later hand: "Bedford's copy of the Description, has (no. 36) aquatint from this as one of the "Views added"; he says in his list there that it was an aquatint by Barrow, engr. Parkyns. (Slight difference in his print: figs. in front + none under tree, but unmistakably this is the drawing for it).", Numbered on verso, in pencil: "No. H"., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Jospeh Charles Barrow, English artist, active 1789-1802., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
Watercolor drawing of the cottage on the grounds of Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill estate in Twickenham. The side of the cottage containing a large window faces the viewer, with the entrance and its portico facing left; a man, holding a cane in his right hand and carrying a folio volume under his left arm, walks away from the entrance. A watering can, a sickle, a wheelbarrow, and a rake are in the foreground; trees surround the cottage and are also visible in the background
Alternative Title:
Cottage, drawn by J.C. Barrow, 1791
Description:
Title, statement of responsibility, and date written in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand., Alternative title, statement of responsibility, and date written by Horace Walpole below image on mounting page: The cottage, drawn by J.C. Barrow, 1791., and Mounted on page 202 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 (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Estates
"Heading to engraved verses: 'Sung by Mr Incledon, in his Popular Entertainment of Hospitality.' A countryman stands full face, reflectively leaning on his spade. Behind is a rustic scene with a cottage. A dog guards his master's coat. The first and last lines: 'Come Measter I be's going to sing, - At least I be's going to try, ... Some dig for ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., One line of text directly below title: Sung by Mr. Incledon in his Popular Entertainment of Hospitality., Twenty four lines of verse arranged in three numbered columns above imprint statement: Come Measter I be's going to sing, at least be's going to try ..., and Plate numbered '451' in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 16, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A red-nosed 'Cit' sits on a rock along a small waterfall on a stream outside a cottage, fishing. He grins as he holds up a fish that he has caught, the caption below conveying his thought: "Do you call that nothing?" The joke is that his bucket of fish that hangs off a tree branch next to him has been overturned and all the rest of the fish he has caught spill back into the stream
Drawing of the door and front facade of the cottage on the grounds of Strawberry Hill. The gable roof portico is decorated with the letter "H" followed by three cross crosslets and then the letter "W", as well as with a star near the peak of the gable. Two rectangles (windows?) with images of tools flank the doorway; a short fence with a quatrefoil design is in the foreground
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written below image on mounting page, in Horace Walpole's hand., Date of production based on John Chute's death date., and Mounted on page 176 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)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Doors & doorways, Fences, Facades, and Dwellings
Elevation of a Cottage for the Honorable Horace Walpole, near Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title at top of sheet, scale drawn in below image., Artist's name inscribed by Horace Walpole, recto lower left corner: Robt Adam Architect 1766., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: (London Sale, Lot 1248): Ditto [drawings] Views of Strawberry Hill and of the Villa of Lady Diana Beauclerc at Twickenham, by J. Barrow, 1789, and 4 designs for a Cottage, etc. at Strawberry Hill, by Robert Adams, architect, 1767, etc."