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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

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

Dr. Samuel Phillips Eady, a quack specialist in sexual health, certainly seems to get on well with his glamorous patients! "The Commercial Dandy and his sleeping partners", by George Cruikshank, 1821. via the Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection.

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2020-06-30

The Exquisite, Alias Dandy in Distress, is so buttoned up and laced in that he can't pick up his fallen kerchief! This image illustrates a letter from a correspondent (beneath the image) who has concerns about modern fashions... via the Lewis Walpole Library.

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2020-06-22

Born in 1735: English painter (1735-1811)

Portrait of Walpole, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736-1807), ca. 1766-9

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2020-05-08

Here’s something to try during “A lady - but a rakish one, Her lover’s breeches putting on!” via the Lewis Walpole Library.

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2020-05-05

Three friends of mine have revived the Hugh Walpole Society. There is a website with membership & conference details. The 'Review' is an attractive publication. & who could resist a conference in Keswick?

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2020-04-10

Today's British print from a large volume of Thomas Gray's poems with amazingly inventive illustrations designed by Robert Bentley, etched by Johann Sebastian Muller. This is "Ode on the Death of [Horace Walpole's] Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes".

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2020-04-03

Happy news is always welcome, especially at times like these. We are delighted to announce the recipients of Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants at the Lewis Walpole Library for 2020-2021. https://t.co/udC65HC1he

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2020-04-02