Master of Otranto to the Fairy Blandina and 'Twas on this lofty vase's side
Description:
Title from first lines of text., By Horace Walpole. See Hazen., Thomas Kirgate's reprint of "The master of Otranto" with ’ordered’ in the fourth line slightly to the left of ’Manner’., On the same sheet, printed below, Thomas Gray's: 'Twas on this lofty vase's side, Where China's gayest art has dy'd ... ., Hazen's titles: The Master of Otranto to the Fairy Blandina 1772 and Label for the pedestal of the China tub. 1773?, Fairy Blandina = Lady Blandford., Not in ESTC., Mounted on page 30 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., Pasted below a colored drawing of the vase in the Little Cloister; with Richard Bull's annotation in ink., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Blandford, Maria Catherina de Jong, approximately 1697-1779. and Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
Title from first line of text., Title in Hazen: This ticket to view Strawberry Hill, 1774., Mounted on page 7 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., Signed: Horace Walpole. Date supplied in manuscript: Thursday, Aug. 4th., and Mounted, bound to 56 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Opposite page 51 in Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of a sphinx with a woman's head, facing right, sitting on a pedestal
Description:
Title devised by curator, taken from the footnote on page 51 of: Walpole, H. Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Strawberry Hill, 1785., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalogue record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted to 18 x 24 cm., and Bound in opposite page 51 of Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ..., in a volume with the binder's title: Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
Sketch of an armorial shield with three caterpillars, two at the top and one at the bottom. Running horizontally across the middle of the shield is a band with a human-faced sun at its center. To the right of the upper caterpillars is written "Catterpillars"; to the right of the band is written "Rainbow".
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to Thomas Kirgate from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Drawn in lower left corner of page 42 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
Opposite page 88. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Sketch of one side of a coin, with the Latin motto "Pro bono publico" around the outer edge and value in written in Italian "Soldi cinque" in the center
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to Thomas Kirgate from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., Three lines of text written below image, in ink over pencil: This is taken from a coin of Theodore's, engraved in a French 4to. book entitled Recueil general des pieces obsidionales 7 de nécessité, plate 27, no. 8., With placement instruction "88" written in pencil in upper right corner., and Mounted opposite page 88 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
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)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1801]
Call Number:
335 R
Collection Title:
Page 2a of Vers présentés à sa majesté le roi de Suede. Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed with the artist's initials and dated in lower left portion of image., and Mounted on page 2a of Vers présentés à sa majesté le roi de Suede, in a volume with the binder's title: Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1801?]
Call Number:
335 R
Collection Title:
Page 2 after The press at Strawberry Hill to ... the Duke of Clarence. Poems - Strawberry-Hill
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to G.P. Harding and supplied date of production from other drawings in the same volume that are signed "G.P.H. 1801"., and Mounted on page 2 after The press at Strawberry Hill to ... the Duke of Clarence, in a volume with the binder's title: Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
