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151.
Mary of Guise from a painting in the Duke of Devonshire's possession / [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 December 1794]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Mary of Guise, half-length, slightly turned to the left, one hand at her breast and the other on a cushion to the foreground, dressed in an ornately embroidered gown with ermine-trimmed sleeves, ropes of pearls about her neck and a small headdress on her head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Pinkerton, J. Iconographia Scotica; or, Portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland. London : I. Herbert, 1797., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 129 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published 1st December 1794 by I. Herbert, No. 29 Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury
Subject (Name):
Mary, Queen, consort of James V, King of Scotland, 1515-1560, and Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1748-1811
Subject (Topic):
Art collections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mary of Guise from a painting in the Duke of Devonshire's possession / [graphic]

152.
Mary of Guise from a painting in the Duke of Devonshire's possession / [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 December 1794]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Mary of Guise, half-length, slightly turned to the left, one hand at her breast and the other on a cushion to the foreground, dressed in an ornately embroidered gown with ermine-trimmed sleeves, ropes of pearls about her neck and a small headdress on her head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Pinkerton, J. Iconographia Scotica; or, Portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland. London : I. Herbert, 1797., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 102 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., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 15.4 x 12.2 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Published 1st December 1794 by I. Herbert, No. 29 Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury
Subject (Name):
Mary, Queen, consort of James V, King of Scotland, 1515-1560, and Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1748-1811
Subject (Topic):
Art collections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mary of Guise from a painting in the Duke of Devonshire's possession / [graphic]

153.
Mary of Medicis & Louis the thirteenth [art original].

Published / Created:
[17--?]
Call Number:
SH Contents Un58 no. 13 Box 115
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Marie de Médicis and Louis XIII and Marie de Médici and Louis XIII
Description:
Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin.
Subject (Name):
Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642, Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mary of Medicis & Louis the thirteenth [art original].

154.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cromwell, mother of the Protector [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1787]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait; half length to left; wearing white hood and embroidered trim; oval in rectangular pedastal."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., After a painting by Robert Walker; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,1209.5627., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was issued., Plate from: Noble, M. Memoirs of the protectoral-house of Cromwell ... London : Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text in lower margin: From an original picture in the possession of the Earl of Sandwich at Hinchingbrooke., Mounted on page 248 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 : etching, engraving, and stipple engraving on wove paper ; sheet 15.9 x 9.6 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
G. G. J. and J. Robinson
Subject (Name):
Cromwell, Elizabeth, 1564 or 1565-1654, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
Art collections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Elizabeth Cromwell, mother of the Protector [graphic].

155.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cromwell, mother of the Protector [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1787]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait; half length to left; wearing white hood and embroidered trim; oval in rectangular pedastal."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., After a painting by Robert Walker; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,1209.5627., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was issued., Plate from: Noble, M. Memoirs of the protectoral-house of Cromwell ... London : Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text in lower margin: From an original picture in the possession of the Earl of Sandwich at Hinchingbrooke., 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.
Publisher:
G. G. J. and J. Robinson
Subject (Name):
Cromwell, Elizabeth, 1564 or 1565-1654, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
Art collections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Elizabeth Cromwell, mother of the Protector [graphic].

156.
Sir Horrise Walpoles gothick lamp [art original].

Published / Created:
[not before 1756]
Call Number:
SH Contents Un58 no. 1 Box 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing the gothic lantern that eventually hung "in the well of the staircase" according Horace Walpole's account in his 1774 Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole. Date of creation based on the appearance of the gothic lantern, as originally designed by Richard Bentley ca. 1755 before Walpole added colored and stained glass to the lower panes
Alternative Title:
Sir Horace Walpole's gothic lamp
Description:
Title from item., Unsigned and undated drawing., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Art collections and Lamps
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sir Horrise Walpoles gothick lamp [art original].

157.
The Strawberry Hill sale [art original].

Published / Created:
[1842]
Call Number:
Drawings Un58 no. 52 Box D160
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Strawberry Hill sale [art original].

158.
The dagger of Henry VIII in the collection of Strawberry Hill. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1842]
Call Number:
SH Contents Un58 no. 18 Box 120
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
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)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections and Daggers & swords
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The dagger of Henry VIII in the collection of Strawberry Hill. [graphic]

159.
Urn erected in the garden at Cliveden near Twickenham, 1792 [art original].

Published / Created:
[not after 1797]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Monuments & memorials, and Urns
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Urn erected in the garden at Cliveden near Twickenham, 1792 [art original].

160.
[Arms of the Morrish kings] [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1777]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Arms of the Moorish kings
Description:
Title written above image in brown ink, in a contemporary hand., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate was issued., Plate from: Carter, F. A journey from Gibraltar to Malaga ... London : Printed for T. Cadell, 1777., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Probably engraved after the title, formerly owned by Francis Carter and later acquired at auction by Horace Walpole, that was kept in the China Closet at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 191 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.
Publisher:
T. Cadell
Subject (Name):
Carter, Francis, -1783 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections and Coats of arms
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Arms of the Morrish kings] [graphic].

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