TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Wilmarth Sheldon
TI  - Horace Walpole
T2  - The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
SN  - 9780691252070
U1  - 828/.609 23//eng/20231023eng
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Printmakers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - ART / History / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; I. Family --; II. Friends --; III. Politics --; IV. Strawberry Hill --; V. Lord Orford's Works --; VI. The Letters; restricted access
N2  - An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the artsHorace Walpole (1717–1797) was a collector, printer, novelist, arbiter of taste, and renowned writer of letters. In this book, eminent scholar Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis provides an unprecedented look at the life and work of one of England’s greatest men of letters. Lewis sheds light on Walpole’s relationships with his family and friends, his politics, his writings and printmaking activities, and his correspondence. Featuring portraits of Walpole, his relatives, and friends; images of Walpole's sketches and manuscripts; pages from books printed at Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Press; and views and plans of Strawberry Hill, the house, its rooms and furnishings, and its grounds, and accompanied by Lewis’s extensive annotations, this book provides an invaluable history of an extraordinary man
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691252070?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691252070
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691252070/original
ER  -