Drawing of Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill in Twickenham from the view in the southeast
Alternative Title:
East view of Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex
Description:
Title inscribed by artist below image; signed and dated by the artist lower right of image., On verso in contemporary hand: Strawberry Hill en Middlesex maison de campagne de Mr. Horace Walpole. Added in pencil is a note (in French) giving biographical information on Walpole and noting that this drawing was likely to have been intended as a print, citing the presence of pinpricks that outline some of the buildings., and Johann Heinrich (or John Henry) Müntz (1727-1798), painter and architect, engaged by Walpole to paint at Strawberry Hill . He created a series of topographical drawings and copied old masters, but relations were broken off in late 1759 after a quarrel.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Houses
"View of the west front of Harewood House in Hanover Square; elegantly dressed figures and carriages in street"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., and "Pl. 90"--Below imprint.
Parkyns, George Isham, approximately 1750-approximately 1820, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1795]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 56+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View showing the west front of the old Marylebone Manor House; a wall separating grounds of house from street, next to a gat in the walls a woman carrying a basket on her head stops to talk with a man leaning on a bollard, in the left foreground a man sits on a bench talking with another man who stands gesturing and pointing towards two barrels"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of Plate 7 from: Picturesque views of churches. London, 1791-1792. See British Museum online catalogue., The Lewis Walpole Library: From the Topographical Prints collection., and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1795, by T. Simpson, St. Paul's Church Yard, and Darling & Thompson, Gt. Newport Strt and Printed by I. Pushee
"Front of the building, with rusticated wall with balustrade and ball ornaments and two gates to front court; two carriages on street outside"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Plate from: Stow, J. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "15" in lower right corner., and Mounted on modern secondary support.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowes Survey
"Façade of the house from the forecourt; steps leading up to entrance; three men on horseback below a window to right of entrance gesturing up towards two women who look down towards them"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: This mansion, which for more than a century was the town residence of the noble family of Russel Earls and Dukes of Bedford, was built ..., "Engraved from the original drawing purchased at the sale in Bedford House, & now in the possession of the publisher, R. Wilkinson.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two edges leaving thread margins., and Plate from: Londina illustrata : graphic and historic memorials of monasteries, churches, chapels, schools ... London: R. Wilkinson, 1819-25.
Publisher:
Published December 1, 1822, by R. Wilkinson, No. 125, Fenchurch Street
"View in Covent Garden showing St Paul's Church and Lord Archer's House; in foreground a cart is laden with empty baskets, work horses stand in front with a donkey, to their right a group of three people fill and carry the baskets towards the market, a small elegantly dressed family in foreground to left"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Saint Paul's, Covent Garden
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Published March 15th, 1796, by T. Malton
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and Covent Garden (London, England),
View of Strawberry Hill (north front) as seen from the lane with fences on either side. A man with a scythe and a woman carrying a baby walk in the road in front of the estate, towards the viewer
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill, view from the northeast road and Strawberry Hill, north front
Description:
Edward Edwards (1738-1806), British painter., Titled, dated, and signed on wash-line mount, bottom edge., and Formerly mounted on page 20 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):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Watercolor of the southeast view of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with two workmen in the foreground rolling the lawn and clearing leaves
Alternative Title:
East front of Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title taken from a note in Horace Walpole's hand on verso of the drawing, now obscured by added mount. Companion drawing to his: South front of Strawberry Hill. Cf. Lewis Walpole call no.: 49 3485 (12) no. 2., Drawing that was later used as the basis of an engraving entitled "East front of Strawberry Hill"., Paul Sandby (bap. 1731-1809), English artist and architect., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title written in unknown hand below image. and Later note in pencil "Not SH"; other notes suggesting alternative identifications -- Mr. Hudson's House, Ham [...] House.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
View of the entrance to Strawberry Hill, with a man at the door which stands ajar
Alternative Title:
Entrance of Strawberry Hill and Strawberry Hill (entrance)
Description:
Edward Edwards (1738-1806), British painter., Title written on mount below image., Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount., and Formerly mounted on page 23 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):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
