In a circular drawing framed by trees in the foreground, a view of the cottage called Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, owned by the fashionable toy dealer Mrs. Chenevix and purchased in 1748 by Horace Walpole. The small ivy-covered house stands at center surrounded by green meadows divided by hedgerows; the Thames is barely visible in the distance on the right. In the foreground a gentleman with a walking stick passes a stile
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation in Horace Walpole's letter to Henry Seymour Conway, 8 June 1747., Signed and dated by the artist in lower portion of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 12., and Bound in as page 132 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.
View of a large house, perhaps meant to be Houghton Hall, rising from a hill in the middle distance. Trees and thick undergrowth obscure the lower floors of the house and provide a green backdrop for an ornate staircase in the foreground, upon which a man with a walking stick stands
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 67., and Bound in as page 141 in volume 3 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.
Composite image, set against a gray background pattern with images of leaves, flowers, and birds, including ten small rectangular views of English scenery, some drawn to overlap and partially obscure others. The scenes include: a view of a bridge and cathedral and several views of the English countryside, with fields, trees, roads, small houses, and rivers with the occasional figures, including a man on horseback, a man lying on a hill, and people riding in a carriage
Description:
Title written at bottom of image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 262., and Bound in as page 180 in volume 11 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 (Topic):
Nature, Plants, Bodies of water, Cities & towns, and Dwellings
Sketch of a house, surrounded by trees and a low fence
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink on separate strip of paper (2.4 x 18.8 cm) mounted above drawing. and Mounted on page 26 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Gray, T. Odes. Printed at Strawberry-Hill, for R. & J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1757.
Printmaker's name and imprint burnished from this state., Publication date from watermark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Farm animals.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Dwellings, Farms, Military officers, and British
"View of a mansion, with wall and gate in front, figures in the foreground including a man making a drawing of the house and another walking to the left with a dog behind him, sheep grazing to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gentlemans seat on Stockwell Common, Surrey
Description:
Title engraved below image., Twelfth in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 62 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Volume 2, page 42. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman sitting on a bench in a landscape, full-length, three-quarter to right, with a hat and fan, trees in the left middle distance, a house across a field in the right background, in an oval; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 42 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 14th, 1785, by S. Watts, No. 50 opposite Old Round Court, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Modena., and Italy.
Subject (Topic):
Peasants, Clothing & dress, Fans (Accessories), Benches, and Dwellings
"George IV sits on a small stone among tall bulrushes at the water's edge in profile to the left, fishing, his rod being a sceptre. Leaning forward, he looks anxiously at his tautening line. On his head is poised a small but massive crown, a creel hangs at his back; he wears quasi-military dress, white gauntlet gloves, and breeches with jack-boots (cf. British Museum Satires No. 14220). In the foreground, looking up at him, is a kingfisher. In the background, at the water's edge, is a small thatched peasant's cottage behind which is Windsor Castle, on its wooded hill, flying the Royal Standard (cottage and castle being mere symbols). Below the title is a circular garter inscribed Honi. Soit. Qui. Mal. Y. Pense."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Fairburn published a similar print two months later (13 July 1826) entitled "A king-fisher, and a water-wag-tail," which depicts the king fishing alongside Lady Conynham; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 826.07.13.01. This later Fairburn print, in turn, was likely a copy of a print of the same scene published by S.W. Fores in June 1826; see no. 15137 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., and Removed from a blue paper mount leaving residue on verso.
Publisher:
Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Windsor Castle,
"George IV sits fishing under a little pavilion; his rod is a sceptre, larger than that in Britis Museum Satires No. 15126. He has hooked a frog, which Lady Conyngham, kneeling beside him, is about to scoop with a landing-net. She says: Oh what a beautifull fish! I think its something of the Gudgeon kind, but a most Noble one. A large kingfisher stands on the opposite bank watching them. The King sits on an ornate stool, resting a gouty leg on a smaller one. He wears a bell-shaped top-hat, the plain high-collared coat of recent portraits with knee-breeches. Beside him are creel and bait-box. The pavilion is merely an ornate canopy for his stool, decorated with onion domes like that of the Pavilion, bells, and a crown. Lady Conyngham wears a décolletée dress with long gloves, and roses in her hair. Behind is a realistic view of the Cottage, with a peacock in front of it, and Windsor Castle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: top hat -- Fishing net., and Watermark: Fellows 1824.
Publisher:
Pubd. June, 1826 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Virginia Water (England : Lake), and Windsor Great Park (England),
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Windsor Castle,
"View of Twickenham, looking over the River Thames; the houses on the opposite shore reflected in the water; a barge and rowing boat in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe du village de Twickenham
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Probably after a design by Heckel; statement of responsibility "A. Heckel delint." is present on another print of identical composition. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0508.1447., Date of publication based on Robert Sayer's earliest year of activity. The address "near Sergeants Inn, Fleet Street" only appears on his very early prints; see British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Views of villages, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, &c. situate on, or near the river Thames", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 88, no. 13., Plate numbered "No. 3" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 2 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, map & printseller near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England) and Thames River (England)
