Page 1. List of pieces printed at Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in pencil below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger, based on that of the manuscript volume in which this drawing is found., Sheet trimmed to the edges of the vignette drawing., and Mounted on page 1 in a volume with the manuscript title: List of pieces printed at Strawberry Hill, taken from Baker's list.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
An image of an outbuilding and the printing house at Strawberry Hill. A figure believed to be Thomas Kirgate stands in the road in front of the two buildings holding a large portfolio under his arm
Description:
Title and date written in ink within wash-line mount, in unknown hand., Possibly the drawing used as the model for an engraving by Francis Jukes entitled "Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill" which attributes the drawing to E. Edwards., and Also written in light pencil, lower left edge: "The original drawing." In the same hand, on the right, "M.A. Rooker" [i.e., Michael Angelo Rooker?].
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Manuscript, in Walpole's hand, of a brief autobiography from the date of his birth to his activities in 1779. He begins with information about his childhood, including his godparents, the date of his innoculation against smallpox, and his education; and continues with biographical information about his college years; his first employment; his travels with Thomas Gray; and his Parliamentary activities. Much of the manuscript concerns the pieces he wrote, both published and unpublished, and those he published with the Strawberry Hill Press, as well as his reactions to the reviews he received. He also includes anecdotes concerning his attack by highwaymen in 1749; the family quarrel with his uncle Horace Walpole; and his disagreements with David Hume and Voltaire
Description:
In English., Title from first page., Typed transcript available., and Leaves are contained in a paper cover, unstitched.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771., Hume, David, 1711-1776., Voltaire, 1694-1778., Walpole family., Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., Great Britain. Parliament., and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Autobiographies (literary genre), English literature, English poetry, Nobility, and Social life and customs
An image of the printing house at Strawberry Hill. A figure believed to be Thomas Kirgate stands in the road in front of the building holding a large portfolio under his arm
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from related print in the British Museum online catalogue. Cf. British Museum online catalogue. Accessions no.: 1956,1018.31., and Possibly engraved after Edward Edwards's drawing "Printing-House at Strawberry Hill 1784". The original drawing is held in The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),, and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England),
Title written in unidentified hand at bottom of sheet, below image., From a group of Strawberry Hill views by the same hand, two of which carry watermarks dated 1821 and 1822., Written on the verso, in an unknown contemporary hand: "Surely also by Barrow." Underneath, added in another hand: "Surely not by Barrow.", Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Unknown artist., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England),
Half-length portrait of Thomas Kirgate in profile to the right; with receding wavy hair, wearing a plain coat and frilled cravat; with a large tree behind him on the left anda a view of the Strawberry Hill printing house in the distance on the right. Below a second drawing, an untitled watercolor drawing of a row of books on a wall-mounted shelf
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed by the artist with initials in lower right corner of image., Probably copied from a print by A. Birrell after a drawing by Sylvester Harding. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 486 10 Copy 1., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Date from decorated title page indicating that the volumes of this copy were "... privately illustrated 1884-1890"., and Bound in as page 196 in volume 1 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810, and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England),
A half-length portrait of Thomas Kirgate facing right, with a view of the Strawberry Hill printing house in the distance on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 237 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 wove paper ; sheet 16.4 x 13.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Title devised by curator., Unknown artist., Though purchased with a collection of drawings by Richard Bentley, the drawing does not appear to be in his hand., and Possibly a drawing for Strawberry Hill?
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
Alternative Title:
Printing house at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from original drawing in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University; also the title of a later state with aquatint by F. Jukes., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title and printmaker's name., State before aquatinting was added?, Title handwritten on mount: Printing house at Strawberry Hill., Lewis Walpole Library: On verso, possibly in the artist's hand: The seat of the Honle. H. Walpole, in the Parish of Twickenham., Manuscript note on verso: "The Seat of the Hon[able] H. Walpole, in the Parish of Twickenham.", and Mounted on board image framed with gray wash-lines, to 37 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Page 4 after The press at Strawberry Hill to ... the Duke of Clarence. Poems - Strawberry-Hill
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statements of responsibility written in pencil below image; the artist Mundare is unidentified., Copy of a portrait by Romney, which was commissioned by Horace Walpole in 1778 and kept in the Breakfast Room at Strawberry Hill. See: Kidson, A. George Romney: a complete catalogue of his paintings. New Haven : Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2015., Mounted below is a separate sheet (10.0 x 14.7 cm) containing eight lines of verse, in Thomas Kirgate's hand, beneath the heading: Written on the back of Lady Craven's picture, by Lord Orford., and Mounted on page 4 after The press at Strawberry Hill to ... the Duke of Clarence, in a volume with the binder's title: Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
Subject (Name):
Craven, Elizabeth, 1750-1828,, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
