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Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill
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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
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