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When Sir Robert Walpole fell from power one satirist had a field day depicting him evacuating all the offices he controlled. Among those lurking in the background under the legend "we come in now" was Bishop Smalbroke who clearly hoped to cash in

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2021-06-24

Las tres hijas de James Waldegrave, segundo conde de Waldegrave y Maria Walpole,
es un retrato encargado a Joshua Reynolds 1780-1781, con el fin de presentarlas en sociedad y casarlas convenientemente.
Os las presento 👇

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2021-06-06

"You will be entertained with a prophecy which my Lord Chesterfield has found in the 35th chapter of Ezekiel, which clearly promises us victory over the French"
Horace Walpole to Richard Bentley, 1755

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2021-04-13

Welcome
Watercolor by David Edward Cronin. Bound as p. 12 in vol 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of “Horace Walpole and his world” ed. by L. B. Seeley, 1884. https://t.co/aWN24BcbSj

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2021-03-20

This week's theme is the folklore of (Image: Isaac Robert Cruikshank, Lewis Walpole Library, via wikimedia commons)

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2021-03-17

Horace Walpole–died 1797–"served his country, not by drudgery in the Exchequer & Customs, which paid him, but by transmitting to posterity an incomparable vision of England as it was in his day… the machinations of politicians & the turmoil of elections." Plus ça change.

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2021-03-02

Wading through an index & struck by successive entries for Robert Walpole:
entertains a large company
description of house & estate
illness of
unpopular (due to the Excise)
mobbed
burnt in effigy
The life of an in 6 movements

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2021-02-23

1771 Mann wrote to Walpole that Thos. Patch "is a genius...[with] an excellent turn for caricatura...but he is so prudent as never to caricature anybody without his consent"https://t.co/ccXJNH92iI. We have 4 Patch caricature groups including 2 painted at Mann's.

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2021-02-23

The trials of Henrietta Howard, remembered by Horace Walpole... "She has been confined with the gout in her eyes ... They poulticed her feet to draw the gout downwards, [but] it flew up into her head, and she was almost in convulsions with the agony" Ouch!

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2021-01-04

Calling LWL Fellows! Send us your news! Awards, publications, new positions, podcasts/online lectures, or what have you. Inquiring minds want to know. Autumn newsletter coming soon. Walpole.edu or dm here.

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2020-11-10

Prior to Marie Antoinette's execution 1793 Horace Walpole had queried: "Can one believe that they are human beings, who 'midst all their confusions sit coolly meditating new tortures, new anguish for that poor, helpless, miserable woman?'

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2020-10-16

These illustrations by Anna Podedworna for Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto are utterly, sublimely gorgeous 🏰🕯

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2020-10-09

Illustration for "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole
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2020-08-04

Grinling Gibbons died 1721. Walpole wrote, "There is no instance of a man before who gave wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species.”

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2020-08-03

Princess Augusta of Great Britain was born in 1737. Horace Walpole wrote that she "was lively, and much inclined to meddle in the private politics of the Court.

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2020-07-31

a décidé de clore la saison par une vente couvrant plusieurs domaines artistiques. Derrière les grands noms (Rubens, Saraceni, Guerchin, Brueghel, Van Dyck..), on remarque quelques intéressants anonymes dont ce portrait bourguignon de l'ancienne collection Walpole

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2020-07-21

Images of Abigail & James Allen held by the Lewis Walpole Library and National Portrait Gallery.

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2020-07-19

The first known early modern Scottish artist was, George Jameson (1589/90-1644), from Aberdeen. Walpole described him as ‘the Scottish Van Dyck’. Mary Erskine (1626), Portrait of a Lady (Attrb, nd) & Self-Portrait (nd)

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2020-07-05