Two elevations and three floor plans of Marble Hill House, Twickenham. Design consists of five images in two rows, each with a caption in English and French etched below
Alternative Title:
Maison dans Twittenham Middlesex aproche le Rivier Thames
Description:
Title from text between the two rows of images., Date of publication based on that of volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Vitruvius Britannicus : or, The British architect ... / by Colen Campbell ... [London, 1715-1731]., "P. 93. Vol. 3d."--Upper left corner., No. 24, "Marble Hill," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., and With letterpress description of Marble Hill on separate sheet (23 x 23 cm).
"Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, half-length, in an oval surmounted by a crown and thistles and two armorials, slightly turned to the right, dressed in a gown heavily embroidered with flowers and a high collar, a crucifix about her neck, an axe and a sceptre to the foreground lying on the plinth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Maria Scotorum Regina
Description:
Title engraved at bottom of image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all image and text apart from the oval portrait. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1871,1209.1558., Mounted on page 60 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., With wash-line mount (11.8 x 9.9 cm) on which is written: Reduc'd by G. Vertue, from F. Zucchero's origl. Chiswick., and For further information, consult library staff.
View of the charity-children in the Strand, upon the VII of July, MDCCXII ...
Description:
Title in Latin from text in lower portion of image on first plate; title in English from text in lower portion of image on second plate., Text within scroll in lower left corner of first plate: The first hymn sung by the charity children. Lord give the Queen thy saving health ..., Text within scroll in lower right corner of second plate: The second hymn sung by the charity children. Glory to God, who reigns on high ..., and Watermark.
View of the charity-children in the Strand, upon the VII of July, MDCCXII ...
Description:
Title in Latin from text in lower portion of image on first plate; title in English from text in lower portion of image on second plate., Text within scroll in lower left corner of first plate: The first hymn sung by the charity children. Lord give the Queen thy saving health ..., Text within scroll in lower right corner of second plate: The second hymn sung by the charity children. Glory to God, who reigns on high ..., and Watermark.
Elevation du costé du jardin del la maison du Monsieur Monsr. Iohnston a Twittenham dans la comté de Midlesex
Description:
Title from captions below images., Date of publication based on that of volume in which the plate appears., Three designs on one plate, each individually titled below., Plate from: Vitruvius Britannicus : or, The British architect ... / by Colen Campbell ... [London], 1715-1731]., "P. 77."--Upper right corner., No. 22, "Mr. and Mrs. George Morton Pitt," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., and Partial watermark.
A slip-song - "O brave England’s forces!"., "In praise of James Butler, duke of Ormonde's campaigns in Spain against Cadiz and Vigo; after his banishment" (Foxon)., Foxon dates this "[1715/-]"; that is, no earlier than 1715 (the year of Ormonde’s banishment), but with no terminus ante quem specified., Mounted on leaf 43. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Spain
Subject (Name):
Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688
Subject (Topic):
Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1747, Campaigns, Vigo Bay, Battle of, Spain, 1702, Naval warfare, Warships, and Sailing ships
Harris, John, active 1680-1739 or 1740, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1715]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 137++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the house from the park; a few elegantly dressed figures in park in foreground, four empty niches on building, two on either side"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge., and Plate from: Britannia illustrata ... London : Printed for ... & Ioseph Smith ..., 1714-1715.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by J. Smith in Exeter Change in [the] Strand
Second volume of T. Brown's Works and Second vol. of T. Brown's Works
Description:
Title etched above image: The second vol. of T. Brown's Works and Frontispiece from: The works of Mr. Thomas Brown. 4th ed. London : Printed for Sam Briscoe ... , 1715, v. 2.
"Landscape with, in the centre foreground, a woman wearing a dark dress seated on a stone and staring into the distance, to right; beside her, a man wearing a plumed hat reclining on the stone; beyond some figures resting under trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Capricious woman and Capricious girl
Description:
Title from that of the original painting, now in the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg., Printmaker identified as Philip Mercier in the British Museum online catalogue., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1874,0808.1958., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Original painting was formerly part of Sir Robert Walpole's collection; purchased by Horace Walpole in 1748 and later hung in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 152 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., and 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 29.8 x 24.1 cm.
