ISBN |
0300125747 (hbk.) |
9780300125740 (hbk.) |
Title |
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill / edited by Michael Snodin ; with the assistance of Cynthia Roman |
Publisher |
New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, 2009 |
Physical desc. |
xv, [1], 368 p. ; col. ill., ports., plans ; 31 cm. |
Note |
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. |
Illustrated endpapers. |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-352) and index. |
Contents |
Horace Walpole: his life and character / Peter Sabor -- Horace Walpole's grand tour / Eleanor Hughes -- The Castle of Otranto / Ruth Mack -- Going to Strawberry Hill / Michael Snodin -- A description of...Strawberry Hill / Stephen Clarke -- Walpole's china fish tub / Bet McLeod -- Heraldry / Lisa Ford -- Walpole's gothic: creating a fictive history / Kevin Rogers -- Stained and painted glass / Michael Peover -- Strawberry Hill: friendship and taste / George E. Haggerty -- The Strawberry committee / George E. Haggerty -- Singular objects and multiple meanings / Alicia Weisberg-Roberts -- The cabinet of miniatures and enamels / Stephen Lloyd -- Paper castle, paper collection: Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of the Description of...Strawberry Hill / Ruth Mack -- Historicizing Horace / Stephen Bann -- Lancastrians and Tudors at Strawberry Hill / Lisa Ford -- Horace Walpole and his beauties / Julia Marciari Alexander -- The Anecdotes of painting and continental European art history / Nigel Llewellyn -- Heads on paper / Timothy Clayton -- The art of Lady Diana Beauclerk: Horace Walpole and female genius / Cynthia Roman -- 'An ebony cabinet ornamented with drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerc' / Susan Odell Walker -- Horace Walpole: antiquarian of his time / Irène Aghion -- Horace Walpole and the collecting of miniatures / Katherine Coombs -- The Digby miniatures / Stephen Lloyd -- 'Playthings still?': Horace Walpole as a collector of ceramics / Timothy Wilson -- The Limoges enamel horn / Timothy Wilson -- Horace Walpole and Wedgwood / Robin Emmerson -- The Strawberry Hill armoury / Stuart W. Pyhrr -- The 'curious books' in the library at Strawberry Hill / Margaret K. Powell -- The Strawberry Hill press / Stephen Clarke -- Strawberry Hill: the laughing view / Hope Saska -- The Strawberry Hill sale of 1842: 'the most distinguished gem that has ever dorned the annals of auctions' / Stephen Clarke -- Catalogue of the exhibition -- Appendices. Walpole's dream -- Walpole's list of principal curiosities -- Walpole's account of the aesthetic effects at Strawberry Hill -- Horace Walpole, the 'Strawberry committee' and the 'committee of taste' / John Riely. |
Person as subject |
Walpole, Horace -- 1717-1797 -- Art collections |
Walpole, Horace -- 1717-1797 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London |
Corporate name |
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) |
Subject |
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- England -- London |
Added name(s) |
Snodin, Michael |
Roman, Cynthia E. |
Added name(s) - Corporate |
Lewis Walpole Library |
Yale Center for British Art |
Victoria and Albert Museum |