Title from ms. note in ink below image: "Bulstrode Whitlock by Winceslaus Hollar.", Mounted to 320 x 261 mm; French mount with gilt, black ink, and gray wash borders., and With a note in Thomas Kirgate's hand: "A portrait of Bulstrode Whitlock Esqr. by Winceslaus Hollar. Born at Prague in Bohemia about 1600. An unfinished proof print wash'd & hightned by [...]"
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Whitlocke, Bulstrode, 1605-1675 or 1676 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A view of the west front of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill, as seen from across the road. On the left a man on horseback rides away from the viewer. In the distance a man walks away from the door in the wall around the villa. The foreground on the right is cast in shadow
Description:
in the LewisWalpoleLibrary, Yale
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Estates
A view of Horace Walpole's home in Twickenham, Strawberry Hill from the south. Two gardeners roll the lawn, pulling the heavy roller behind them, towards the lower right. In the distance is a view of the Thames and Richmond in the distance
Alternative Title:
Southview of Strawberry Hill
Description:
at the LewisWalpoleLibrary and signed
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Estates, and Gardening
An eagle facing right, wings slightly unfurled, head turned and looking back to left, beak slightly open; on a pedestal with a plaque describing how the statue had been dug up in the garden of the Boccapadugli family, near the Baths of Caracalla and was sold to Horace Walpole with the help of Horace Mann, the British Minister in Florence. At Strawberry Hill the eagle was displayed on a marble funerary altar, decorated with similar eagles
Alternative Title:
Vetus aquilae signum marmoreum and Marble eagle on a pedestal with a plaque
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:
LewisWalpoleLibrary, Yale University; also
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, 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:
original drawing is held in the LewisWalpole
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
