Title below image., Signed in image: "Mason." Walter George Mason?, 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.
An auctioneer with gavel in raised hand presides over a crowd of bidders wearing tall top hats and long coats as they frantically scribble notes and examine items indistinclty depicted in the background
Description:
Title from a later caption inscribed in graphite pencil below image., Date based on the date of the sale of Horace Walpole's collections at Strawberry Hill., Curatorial note: The scene in the drawing may not depict The Strawberry Hill sale due to a lack of specific details., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Auctions, Auctioneers, and Gavels
View of the dagger in the scabbard, believed by Horace Walpole to have been formerly owned by King Henry VIII
Description:
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]., The watercolor drawing is pasted on the top half of the larger sheet of the print, above the wood-engraved image., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
Publisher:
Smith and Robins?
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1839?]
Call Number:
SH Views H263 no. 1 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill great cloister
Description:
Titled in ink in artist's hand, below image., Initialed "GPH" in the bottom left corner of image., and Date based on the submission of his "The Library at Strawberry Hill, Seat of the Earl of Waldegrave" to the Royal Academy in 1839.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Art collections, Estates, and Cloisters
Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1784]
Call Number:
SH Contents M875 no. 1 Impression 1 Box 110
Image Count:
1
Description:
Title engraved below image., In the upper right corner, above image: "Vol.II. P.508.", First state of the plate, without volume and page numbering, engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Plate reissued, with vol. and page number added, for: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798-1825, vol. ii., and Printing after 1798.
Wash drawing of the shell seat, which was completed in 1754, located on the grounds of Horace Walpole's estate Strawberry Hill, in Twickenham, Middlesex
Description:
Title in pencil by unknown hand at bottom of sheet., From a group of Strawberry Hill views by the same hand, two of which carry watermarks dated 1821 and 1822., Unknown artist., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
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)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 42b. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a triangular chair that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Star Chamber at Strawberry Hill. The chair has one leg at each corner of its triangular seat, with the leg at the rear extending upward and being topped with a curved piece that forms a simple backrest
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Inlaid on page 42b in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Drawing of the monument to the memory of Kitty Clive that was erected by Horace Walpole at Little Strawberry Hill. The monument consists of an urn sitting upon a pedestal that bears the inscription: Ye smiles and jests still hover round; this is mirths consecrated ground; here lived the laughter loving dame, a matchless actress, Clive her name; the Comic Muse with her retired, and shed a tear when she expired. H.W.
Description:
Title from note in brown ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on death date of Horace Walpole, whose manuscript annotation is present., and Mounted on page 194 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):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
