Author: Munson Aldrich HavensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Horace Walpole and the Strawberry Hill Press
Author: Munson Aldrich HavensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Horace Walpole and the Strawberry Hill Press, 1757-1789
Author: Munson Aldrich HavensPublisher: Canton, Pa. : Kirgate Press
ISBN:
Category : Private presses
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Strawberry Hill
Author: Anna ChalcraftPublisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780711231849
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A room-by-room tour of one of the wonders of the eighteenth-century architectural world
Horace Walpole and the Strawberry Hill Press 1757-1789
Author: M. A. HavensPublisher:
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Category : Private presses
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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A Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press
Author: Allen Tracy HazenPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole
Author: Matthew M. ReevePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271086599
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole shows that the Gothic style in architecture and the decorative arts and the tradition of medievalist research associated with Horace Walpole (1717–1797) and his circle cannot be understood independently of their own homoerotic culture. Centered around Walpole’s Gothic villa at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Walpole and his “Strawberry Committee” of male friends, designers, and dilettantes invigorated an extraordinary new mode of Gothic design and disseminated it in their own commissions at Old Windsor and Donnington Grove in Berkshire, Lee Priory in Kent, the Vyne in Hampshire, and other sites. Matthew M. Reeve argues that the new “third sex” of homoerotically inclined men and the new “modern styles” that they promoted—including the Gothic style and chinoiserie—were interrelated movements that shaped English modernity. The Gothic style offered the possibility of an alternate aesthetic and gendered order, a queer reversal of the dominant Palladian style of the period. Many of the houses built by Walpole and his circle were understood by commentators to be manifestations of a new queer aesthetic, and in describing them they offered the earliest critiques of what would be called a “queer architecture.” Exposing the role of sexual coteries in the shaping of eighteenth-century English architecture, this book offers a profound and eloquent revision to our understanding of the origins of the Gothic Revival and to medievalism itself. It will be welcomed by architectural historians as well as scholars of medievalism and specialists in queer studies.
Horace Walpole
Author: Austin DobsonPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Horace Walpole and the Strawberry Hill Press
Author: Munsen A. HavensPublisher:
ISBN: 9780849523151
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill
Author: Yale Center for British ArtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Horace Walpole (1717-1797), as the youngest son of the powerful Whig minister Robert Walpole, grew up at the center of Georgian society and politics and circulated amongst the elite literary, aesthetic, and intellectual circles of his day. His brilliant letters and writings have made him the best-known commentator on the rich cultural life of 18th-century England. In his own day, he was most famous for his extraordinary collections of rare books and manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, prints and drawings, furniture, ceramics, arms and armor, and curiosities, all displayed at his pioneering Gothic Revival house at Strawberry Hill, on the banks of the Thames at Twickenham. This timely and groundbreaking study of the history and reception of Walpole’s collection as it was formed and arranged at Strawberry Hill coincides with a planned restoration of this endangered house. Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill assembles an international team of distinguished scholars to explore the ways in which Strawberry Hill and its collections engaged with the creation of various and interconnected political, national, dynastic, cultural, and imagined histories.
A catalogue of books and tracts, printed at the private press of the hon. Horace Walpole ... at Strawberry Hill. Together with those of his works printed by Bodoni, at Parma; Dodsley, Pall-Mall; and W. Bathoe, London
Author: Horace WalpolePublisher:
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Category : Private presses
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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