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A serendipitous discovery: a lost Italian portrait from Horace Walpole’s miniature cabinet
04/2025 | 1465 | 167
Pages: 368-375
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Editor:
Concin, Adriana (Concin, Adriana)
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1. The Walpole miniature cabinet, designed by Horace Walpole in collaboration with William Kent. 1873. Padouk veneered onto a pine carcase and set with carved ivory plaques, figures and mounts, 152.4 by 91.5 by 21.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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10. Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, by Lavinia Fontana. 1599. Oil on canvas, 256 by 325 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin).
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11. Detail of Fig.10.
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12. Fig.4, shown at actual size.
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2. Portrait after a miniature once in Horace Walpole’s collection at Strawberry Hill, by George Perfect Harding. c.1801–53. Watercolour on paper, 16.3 by 12.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
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3. Portrait of Bianca Cappello, after Jacopo Ligozzi. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 33.7 by 19.8 cm. (Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington).
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4. Portrait of a noblewoman, here attributed to Lavinia Fontana. c.1580–90. Oil on copper, 5.5 by 4.75 cm. (Private collection).
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5. Directions for [ar]ranging the pictures in the Rosewood Cabinet in the Tribune, by Horace Walpole. c.1784. Pen and ink with pencil, 32.6 by 25.5 cm. (London Metropolitan Archives).
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6. The Tribune at Strawberry Hill, by John Carter. 1789. Watercolour on paper, 59.2 by 49.5 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.)
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7. Disposition of the miniatures in the Rosewood Cabinet in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill, by John Carter. c.1784. Watercolour on paper, 32.6 by 27.5 cm. (From Horace Walpole’s copy of ‘A Description of the Villa of Mr Horace Walpole [. . .]’, London c.1784, fol.33 30; Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington).
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8. Detail of Fig.7, showing the illustration of Fig.4 in Walpole’s miniature cabinet.
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9. Portrait of Bianca Cappello with her son Antonio, Alessandro Allori. c.1580. Oil on canvas, 128.4 by 100.5 cm. (Dallas Museum of Art).
Exhibition Review
Treasures from Faraway: Medieval and Renaissance Objects from The Schroder Collection Strawberry Hill House and Garden, Twickenham 19th March–19th July
06/2023 | 1443 | 165
Pages: 641-643
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Kennedy, Kirstin (Kennedy, Kirstin)
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Treasures from Faraway: Medieval and Renaissance Objects from The Schroder Collection Strawberry Hill House and Garden, Twickenham 19th March–19th July | :
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4. Cup in the form of an owl. Germany, 1556. Silver, parcelgilt and coconut shell, height 16.6 cm. (Schroder Collection; photograph Matt Chung).
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5. Grandmont reliquary. Rock crystal phial, 10th–11th century, mounts probably Meuse-Rhine region, 12th or early–13th century. Silver-gilt, enamel, gemstones and rock crystal, height 27.5 cm. (Schroder Collection; photograph Matt Chung).
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6. Lidded tankard. Ivory barrel, German, seventeenth century, silver mounts supplied by George Wickes, London, 1739. Silver and ivory, height 29.5 cm. (Schroder Collection; photograph Matt Chung).
Article
Horace Walpole’s queer Gothic
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 264-269
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Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
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1. Horace Walpole, by J.G. Eccardt, 1754. Oil on canvas, 39.4 by 31.8 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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2. Sir Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter, by J.G. Eccardt and John Wootton. c.1754, frame c.1680. Oil on canvas, 50.8 by 101.6 (painting). (Courtesy Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington CT).
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3. Frontispiece to ‘Memoirs of George II’ by Horace Walpole, by Richard Bentley. 1752. Pen, ink and wash on paper. (Courtesy Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington CT).
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4. Miss Prettyman in clover, by ‘Truepenny’. 1785. Etching, 17.3 by 12.5 cm. (New York Public Library).
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5. Illustration for ‘Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College’, by Richard Bentley, from Designs by Mr R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr T. Gray, London 1753. Etching, 37.3 by 27.3 cm. (page). (British Library, London).
Exhibition Review
Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill: Masterpieces from Horace Walpole’s Collection. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 148-151
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Aldrich, Megan (Aldrich, Megan)
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11. Horace Walpole, by Joshua Reynolds. c.1756–57. Canvas, 127 by 110 cm. (Ragley Hall, Warwickshire; exh. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham).
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12. Catherine de Medici and her children, by the studio of François Clouet. 1561. Canvas, 198 by 137.2 cm. (Private collection; exh. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham).
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13. Installation view of Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill in the Library, Strawberry Hill (Photograph Kilian O’Sullivan).
Exhibition Review
The Paston Treasure: Riches and Rarities of the Known World. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 772-774
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Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
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4. Nautilus cup, attributed to Nicolaes de Grebber. 1592. Nautilus shell, silver gilt, glass and enamel, height 26.5 cm. (Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft; exh. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
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1. Pair of flagons. London, 1598. Silver gilt, height 31.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
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2. The Paston treasure. c.1663. Canvas, 166.8 by 247.5 cm. (Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
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3. Panel with the arms of the Paston family. Florence, c.1638. Pietre dure, 49 by 37 cm. (Sir Henry PastonBedingfeld, Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk; exh. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
Letter
A further allusion to Strawberry Hill at Lee Priory, Kent
12/2016 | 1365 | 158
Pages: 979
Editorial
Strawberry Hill forever
08/2013 | 1325 | 155
Pages: 527
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Fig.I. The Gallery, Strawberry Hill House, after restoration, 2010
Exhibition Review
Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
05/2010 | 1286 | 152
Pages: 321-324
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Reviewer:
Jervis, Simon (Jervis, Simon; J., S.; J., S. S.)
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Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill | institution: Victoria and Albert Museum , institution: Yale Center for British Art
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31. Portrait of Horace Walpole, by Rosalba Carriera. c.1741. Pastel on paper, 61 by 46.5 cm. (Houghton Hall, Norfolk; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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32. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, from the South, by Johann Heinrich Müntz. c.1755–59. Canvas, 61.9 by 74.3 cm. (Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, New Haven; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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34. Commode, by Pierre Eloy Langlois. 1763. Chinese lacquer, English japanning and other woods, with ormolu mounts and marble veneer top, 88.6 by 59.7 cm. (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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33. Ewer, ‘Saint-Porchaire’. French, c.1545–60. White-bodied earthenware, inlaid and glazed, 34.6 cm. high. (National Mus­eum of Scotland, Edinburgh; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
The Walpole Collection. London
12/2002 | 1197 | 144
Pages: 764-766
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Millar, Oliver (Millar, Oliver; Millar, Mr.; Miller, Oliver)
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52. Landscape with Apollo and the Cumaean Sybil, by Claude Lorrain. 95.5 by 127 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; exh. Somerset House, London).
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53. The Fathers of the Church disputing the Christian Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, by Guido Reni. c. 1635. 273.5 by 184 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; exh. Somerset House, London).
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54. The Prodigal Son, by Salvator Rosa. Early to mid-1650s. 253.5 by 201 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; exh. Somerset House, London).
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55. Portrait of Grinling Gibbons, by Godfrey Kneller. Before 1690. 125 by 90 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; exh. Somerset House, London).
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56. Anne Lee, Mrs Thomas Wharton, by Sir Peter Lely. 1680. 125.1 by 102.9 cm. (The Breakers, Newport, R.I.).
Exhibition Review
London. Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
11/1980 | 932 | 122
Pages: 783-784
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