View of the gallery with paintings on walls and busts on tables at Horace Walpole's Gothic villa Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title engraved below image., Original drawing started by Thomas Sandby and completed by Paul Sandby and Edward Edwards. See Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009, p. 306., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., See B. Gascoigne. Images of Twickenham, no. 303ii for similar impression., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, and Galleries (Display spaces)
Volume 2, after page 146. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricatural portrait of Robert Bragge, bust length, in profile to right, in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Late Doctor Bragg
Description:
Title etched below image., Tentative attribution to James Hook from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, page 435 (after no. 7206). See also: British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1867,0309.767., Date "1787" following printmaker's initials is etched in reverse., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 31 x 24 cm., and Bound in after page 146 in volume 2 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
"Portrait, half length in an oval, hair in curls, veil at back of head, jewelled dress with lace border, and ermine-lined robe fastened by a brooch at the shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title engraved below image., Artist identified as Friedrich Wilhelm Weidemann in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Reissue by Boydell of a plate originally published between 1706 and 1710; cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,2.129., Plate from: Boydell's heads of illustrious and celebrated persons. London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co.; and published by Messrs. Boydell and Co., 1811., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Window mounted to 31 x 24 cm., and Bound in after page 214 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Publisher:
Messrs. Boydell and Co. and W. Bulmer and Co.
Subject (Name):
Sophia, Electress, consort of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover, 1630-1714,
"Statue of the bird standing to left on a square base, resting on a ledge, oval design; after a sculpture by Anne Seymour Damer, from a series of engravings after her work."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: One of the wings was almost cut off in seizing it. Mrs. Damer was present, and caught the idea in that moment of its rage., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Drawn and engraved after the terra-cotta model kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 200 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.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, June 26, 1790, by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage Oxford; and J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, London
"Statue of the bird standing to left on a square base, resting on a ledge, oval design; after a sculpture by Anne Seymour Damer, from a series of engravings after her work."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: One of the wings was almost cut off in seizing it. Mrs. Damer was present, and caught the idea in that moment of its rage., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Drawn and engraved after the terra-cotta model kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 253 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 and etching on laid paper ; sheet 27.6 x 19.3 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, June 26, 1790, by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage Oxford; and J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, London
Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842]., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A view of the stairway at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, including a view of the armor of Francis I in an alcove
Description:
Title below image., Related to illustrations for: Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, 1842., and With an embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinaly.
Title below image., Engraved for the 1842 "Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill"; with caption added., and With an embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
"The three children of Christian II of Denmark, painted after their mother's death in 1526, wrongly titled the children of Henry VII; three children sitting close to one another around a table within a frame, Prince Hans (who would die as a boy six years after sitting for this painting) at centre wearing flat hat and mourning clothes, three cherries in front of him, Dorothea at left reaching for a quince, and Christina at right holding a quince."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Three children of King Henry VII and Elizabeth his queen
Description:
Title etched below image., Engraved after the 1526 painting by Gossaert in the Royal Collection, London. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0914.62., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and right edges., Dedication etched at bottom of plate: To his Grace the most Noble Thomas Duke of Leeds, this is most humbly inscrib'd by Geo. Vertue., 1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 46 x 59 cm., Printed on laid paper., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of dedication from bottom edge., and Tipped in at page 97 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian II, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 1481-1559. and Christine, Duchess, consort of Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, 1521-1590
