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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

Died 18Mar1745 Sir Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of Great Britain and although exact dates are debated, the period of 1721–42 is often used. He holds record as longest-serving Prime Minister in Britain.

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2020-03-18

Between 1714 and 1721 there were 5 chancellors of the exchequer. In spring 1721 the role, combined with the office of 1st lord of the treasury, returned to Robert Walpole (who had held them before 1715-17).
He kept them for the next 21 years

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2020-03-11

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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2020-03-02

Have you seen the latest blog post from 'All Things Georgian' by ? A compelling and insightful look at the 'Ladies of the Bon Ton', including sculptor Anne Seymour Damer, contemporary & friend of Horace Walpole.
Click to read here: https://t.co/bdwa9RmpnD

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2020-02-16

Have you seen the latest blog post from 'All Things Georgian' by ? A compelling and insightful look at the 'Ladies of the Bon Ton', including sculptor Anne Seymour Damer, contemporary & friend of Horace Walpole.
Click to read here: https://t.co/bdwa9RmpnD

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2020-02-11

“Your Dryads must go into black gloves, Madam. Their father-in-law Lady Nature’s second husband, is dead! Mr Brown dropped down at his own door yesterday” wrote Horace Walpole to Lady Ossory on 7th February 1783. https://t.co/IQl5N5TFLH

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2020-02-07

Hey hey Chimeraheads!

Join us tonight for SteamSpell episode 21: The Spire of the First King as the Star-Touched take in the forces of Duke Osyrus Gedraan and see first hand the heresy going on within the spire.

Live on twitch at 7pm EST

ART: “knight” by Tyler Walpole

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2020-01-15

Horace Walpole was encouraged by the new parliamentary intake:
"The rising generation does give one some hopes... The young William Pitt has again displayed paternal oratory. The other day, on the commission of accounts, he answered Lord North & tore him limb from limb"

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2020-01-08

North had every reason to resent the success of the younger Pitt. In summer 1781 H Walpole had noted:
"The young William Pitt has again displayed paternal oratory. The other day... he answered Lord North & tore him limb from limb"

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2019-12-19

"when the does meet, I doubt, nay hope, it will make less sensation than usual"
Horace Walpole to the earl of Strafford, 1783

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2019-11-02

Alexander Pope commissioned this portrait of Henrietta, she was 35 when it was painted. It was later given to Horace Walpole, who displayed it at Strawberry Hill.

Find out more about Henrietta's fascinating life

https://t.co/Zo2dYqmWdF

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2019-10-14

Before elevation to the Lords Devonshire (who died 1764) had a 10-year career in the Commons, where he was a vigorous supporter of Walpole. He campaigned to keep Sir Robert in power decrying the ‘parcel of such shabby fellows who will not attend’ to help the cause

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2019-10-03

Born 1676 Robert Walpole, ?first of Great Britain. Over the years he acquired various epithets among them 'Leviathan' & 'Colossus'. On his fall from power he was made earl of Orford
https://t.co/pqoeFVVVJ0

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2019-08-26