A sketch of the coat of arms of Sir Edward Woodville with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image. Numbered "p. 70" in upper left corner. On the verso, a smaller and much less detailed sketch of the coat of arms of his brother Richard Earl of Rivers also with a brief biographical note
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., On verso: drawing of the Coat of arms of Richard Earl of Rivers., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
Subject (Name):
Woodville, Edward, Sir, -1488. and Rivers, Richard Woodville, Earl, 1405-1469.
A sketch of the coat of arms of Sir John Fastolf with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image. Numbered "p. 50" in upper left corner
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
A sketch of the coat of arms of Sir Walter Mauny (Manny) with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
A sketch of the coat of arms of Thomas Earl of Warwick with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image. Numbered "p. 30" in upper left corner
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of SH, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
Subject (Name):
Warwick, Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of, approximately 1339-1401.
Portrait of the chronologer William Parsons; bust, in profile to the right, with long hair, wearing breast plate and cloak; in decorated roundel
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from annotations at bottom of sheet., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in ink at bottom of sheet: Coll. Parsons ; S.G.
A design proposed for the monument to Roger Townshend in Westminster Abbey; sent in Horace Walpole's letter to the deceased's mother Lady Townshend, Friday 21 September 1759. In his letter he attributes the design to Richard Bentley and acknowledges authorship of the epitaph: "To the memory of Roger Townshend her youngest son slain in the service of his country at ... 1759, Ethelreda Viscountess Townshend dedicates this marble. Lov'd Son, adieu! Tho' from a Mother's eyes fond tears you call, She thanks you, that without a blush they fall. Lady Townshend did not use this design but instead a design by Robert Adam
Alternative Title:
To the memory of Roger Townshend
Description:
Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: GR., and For transcription of the letter along with a reproduction of the image, see: Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 40, p. 166-67.
Drawing in pen and ink with wash for a canopy for a bed with measurements noted in pencil at the bottom of sheet in Horace Walpole's hand
Description:
Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: Pro patria., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
Four pages mounted together with two pages (left and right) of silhouettes in three rows cut from white cardboard and mounted on a single sheet of black. The second sheet from the right includes a silhouette in profileAt the top of the sheet, the Duke of Grafton; in the middle the Duchess of Grafton; at the bottom, Voltaire
Description:
Jean Huber (1721-1786), Swiss silhouette artist., The silhouette of the Duchess of Grafton with a child in a cradle to her left, annotated in Horace Walpole's hand: "Anne Duchess of Grafton cut at Geneva by Monsieur Hubert [sic] 1762"., Possibly the silhouette sent to Walpole 1772 Nov. 15. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, volume 5, pages 439., and Four works matted together: Jean Huber's Découpage with three silhouettes; Lady Catherine Hamilton's, Découpage in the manner of Monsieur Huber; Collage of Walpoliana; Lady Catherine Hamilton's, Découpage with women, children, and dancers.
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Upper Ossory, Anne Liddell Fitzpatrick, Countess of, d.1804., and Voltaire, 1694-1778
A view of a bridge over a river with falls, a rugged terrain with a fallen tree lower left. A man rides his donkey over the bridge
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on leaf 2 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
