Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill /
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill /
Strawberry Hill
edited by Michael Snodin ; with the assistance of Cynthia Roman.
- New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press 2009.
- xv, 368 p. : col. ill., plans ; 31 cm.
In association with the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Yale Center for British Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. "This publication accompanies the exhibition Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill organized by the Lewis Walpole Library, the Yale Center for British Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Horace Walpole: his life and character / Horace Walpole's grand tour / The castle of Otranto / Going to Strawberry Hill / Walpole's china fish tub / Heraldry / Walpole's Gothic: creating a fictive history / Stained and painted glass / Strawberry Hill: friendship and taste / The strawberry committee / Singular objects and multiple meanings / The cabinet of miniatures and enamels / Paper castle, paper collection: Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of the description of...Strawberry Hill / Historicizing Horace / Lancastrians and Tudors at Strawberry Hill / Horace Walpole and his beauties / The anecdotes of painting and continental European art history / Heads on paper / The art of Lady Diana Beauclerk: Horace Walpole and female genius / 'An ebony cabinet ornimented with drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerc' / Horace Walpole: antiquarian of his time / Horace Walpole and the collecting of miniatures / The digby miniatures / 'Playthings still?' Horace Walpole as a collector of ceramics / The Limoges enamel horn / Horace Wapole and wedgwood / The Strawberry Hill armoury / The 'curious books' in the library at Strawberry Hill / The Strawberry Hill press / Strawberry Hill: the laughing view / The Strawberry Hill sale of 1842: 'the most distinguished gem that has ever dorned the annals of auctions' / Peter Sabor -- Eleanor Hughes -- Ruth Mack -- Michael Snodin -- Bet McLeod -- Lisa Ford -- Kevin Rogers -- Michael Peover -- George E. Haggerty -- George E. Haggerty -- Alicia Weisberg-Roberts -- Stephen Lloyd -- Ruth Mack -- Stephen Bann -- Lisa Ford -- Julia Marciari Alexander -- Nigel Llewellyn -- Timothy Clayton -- Cynthia Roman -- Susan Odell Walker -- Irene Aghion -- Katherine Coombs -- Stephen Lloyd -- Timothy Wilson -- Tiumothy Wilson -- Robin Emmerson -- Stuart W. Pyhrr -- Margaret K. Powell -- Stephen Clarke -- Hope Saska -- Stephen Clarke.
9780300125740
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 --Art collections.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 --Homes and haunts--England--London
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Art--Collectors and collecting--England--London
N5247.W28 H67 2009
In association with the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Yale Center for British Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. "This publication accompanies the exhibition Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill organized by the Lewis Walpole Library, the Yale Center for British Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Horace Walpole: his life and character / Horace Walpole's grand tour / The castle of Otranto / Going to Strawberry Hill / Walpole's china fish tub / Heraldry / Walpole's Gothic: creating a fictive history / Stained and painted glass / Strawberry Hill: friendship and taste / The strawberry committee / Singular objects and multiple meanings / The cabinet of miniatures and enamels / Paper castle, paper collection: Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of the description of...Strawberry Hill / Historicizing Horace / Lancastrians and Tudors at Strawberry Hill / Horace Walpole and his beauties / The anecdotes of painting and continental European art history / Heads on paper / The art of Lady Diana Beauclerk: Horace Walpole and female genius / 'An ebony cabinet ornimented with drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerc' / Horace Walpole: antiquarian of his time / Horace Walpole and the collecting of miniatures / The digby miniatures / 'Playthings still?' Horace Walpole as a collector of ceramics / The Limoges enamel horn / Horace Wapole and wedgwood / The Strawberry Hill armoury / The 'curious books' in the library at Strawberry Hill / The Strawberry Hill press / Strawberry Hill: the laughing view / The Strawberry Hill sale of 1842: 'the most distinguished gem that has ever dorned the annals of auctions' / Peter Sabor -- Eleanor Hughes -- Ruth Mack -- Michael Snodin -- Bet McLeod -- Lisa Ford -- Kevin Rogers -- Michael Peover -- George E. Haggerty -- George E. Haggerty -- Alicia Weisberg-Roberts -- Stephen Lloyd -- Ruth Mack -- Stephen Bann -- Lisa Ford -- Julia Marciari Alexander -- Nigel Llewellyn -- Timothy Clayton -- Cynthia Roman -- Susan Odell Walker -- Irene Aghion -- Katherine Coombs -- Stephen Lloyd -- Timothy Wilson -- Tiumothy Wilson -- Robin Emmerson -- Stuart W. Pyhrr -- Margaret K. Powell -- Stephen Clarke -- Hope Saska -- Stephen Clarke.
9780300125740
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 --Art collections.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 --Homes and haunts--England--London
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Art--Collectors and collecting--England--London
N5247.W28 H67 2009