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Grinling Gibbons died #onthisday 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.” #gloriousGeorgians
We are over the moon to announce the winners of our #MyEaling children’s art competition! First up, the winner in our 3-9 category is Sophie Choi, aged 8, with her glorious painting of #WalpolePark pond and fountain...
Well #PortfolioDay 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.
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
#twitterstorians
Blown away by this early competition entry from the older age category - ‘Me in #WalpolePark’ by Isabella, 16. Keep ‘em coming (deadline is July 8) and do share your works in progress using the hashtag #MyEaling. We love to see them!
How to enter https://t.co/d1syE5s2yC #ealing
Hugh Walpole by Stephen Bone late 1930s? (@NPGLondon). The writer at Brackenburn, his home overlooking Derwentwater, Cumbria.
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
#PortfolioDay
Lewis Walpole Library Lecture | Was There an American Enlightenment?
Thursday, April 4 @YaleBritishArt: https://t.co/FPcG6wKMXu
#EucalyptOfTheYear Red Tingle #FactOfTheDay : Hollowed-out giant Eucalyptus jacksonii were popular photo-spots for tourists (and their cars) in the #WalpoleWildernessArea in the 1960s.
Thank goodness peeps can’t do that anymore.
#EucBeaut @EucalyptAus
“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. #OTD #OnThisDay https://t.co/IQl5N5TFLH
#OTD in 1742 Sir Robert Walpole resigned as MP for #KingsLynn after 40 years! This portrait of him by Jonathan Richardson the elder hangs in @KLTownHall.
Have you seen this man? Join the hunt for the missing portrait of Lord Falkland in this week's issue of @countrylifemag. Said to have inspired Walpole's illustrious novel, 'The Castle of Otranto', the painting has not been seen since 1970.
treasurehunt@strawberryhillhouse.org.uk
Season's Greetings from the Librarian and Staff of the Lewis Walpole Library.
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
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@gmail.com or visit my website https://t.co/mKicdu4ab5. #walpole #ealing
@PopesGrotto We expect to send Lady Di's drawings for Walpole's play "The Mysterious Mother" to the Lost Treasures exhibition @strawbhillhouse https://t.co/M46kECTW8i)
Watercolour of 'Clive's Den' near @strawbhillhouse, the house given to actress Kitty Clive by her friend Horace Walpole: https://t.co/3E3XuHHfSq #InternationalFriendshipDay
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 @RE_Prints #REprintsatFAS #londonsummer
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.
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