Grinling Gibbons died in 1721. Walpole wrote of this master wood carver, "[Only Gibbons] 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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We are over the moon to announce the winners of our children’s art competition! First up, the winner in our 3-9 category is Sophie Choi, aged 8, with her glorious painting of pond and fountain...

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Well is here again!

My name is Tyler Walpole. I’m a traditional and digital fantasy artist. Clients include: Magic the Gathering, Marvel Entertainment, Blizzard.

I’m also working on my own urban fantasy comic: Blood of Dragons.

Critter.

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Horace Walpole assured a friend "You may like to know one is alive... after a massacre & the conflagration of a capital... the most horrible sight I ever beheld & which for 6 hours together I expected to end in half the town being reduced to ashes

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Blown away by this early competition entry from the older age category - ‘Me in by Isabella, 16. Keep ‘em coming (deadline is July 8) and do share your works in progress using the hashtag We love to see them!

How to enter https://t.co/d1syE5s2yC

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Hugh Walpole by Stephen Bone late 1930s? (). The writer at Brackenburn, his home overlooking Derwentwater, Cumbria.

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Hi, I’m Tyler Walpole, artist for Magic the Gathering.

I also have my creator owned urban fantasy project: Blood of Dragons. https://t.co/MfWmV7jBUK

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Lewis Walpole Library Lecture | Was There an American Enlightenment?
Thursday, April 4 : https://t.co/FPcG6wKMXu

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Red Tingle : Hollowed-out giant Eucalyptus jacksonii were popular photo-spots for tourists (and their cars) in the in the 1960s.
Thank goodness peeps can’t do that anymore.

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“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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in 1742 Sir Robert Walpole resigned as MP for after 40 years! This portrait of him by Jonathan Richardson the elder hangs in .

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Have you seen this man? Join the hunt for the missing portrait of Lord Falkland in this week's issue of . Said to have inspired Walpole's illustrious novel, 'The Castle of Otranto', the painting has not been seen since 1970.

treasurehuntouse.org.uk

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Season's Greetings from the Librarian and Staff of the Lewis Walpole Library.

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In a world of unholy ruckus, may we all have the total chill of Sir Edward Walpole laying on the floor outside an 18th-century tavern

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Watercolour of the rustic bridge at Walpole Park. If you'd like to find out more about my artwork and classes I run in Ealing you can email me at jessicaroseartist.com or visit my website https://t.co/mKicdu4ab5.

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We expect to send Lady Di's drawings for Walpole's play "The Mysterious Mother" to the Lost Treasures exhibition https://t.co/M46kECTW8i)

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Watercolour of 'Clive's Den' near , the house given to actress Kitty Clive by her friend Horace Walpole: https://t.co/3E3XuHHfSq

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Our summer show continues - glorious new works from members of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Open all weekend, and we’re a mere hop across the green to lovely Walpole Park https://t.co/p7jgaNZVWF

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TONIGHT ONLY! See the play Walpole didn't want performed in public! Featuring an all-star academic cast, a ground-breaking digital set, & costumes from the Goodspeed Opera & Hartford Stage. NOT TO BE MISSED! 5:30 pm, Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St,, New Haven. FREE.

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Two weeks from tonight: Horace Walpole's "The Mysterious Mother" Staged Reading, 5:30 pm. May 2, YCBA Lecture Hall. Followed on May 3 by a mini-conference on Reading "The Mysterious Mother" and Staging "The Mysterious Mother" 10 am - 4 pm, YCBA. https://t.co/ydGYKhrgzF

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