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Horace Walpole''s Strawberry Hill

Horace Walpole''s Strawberry Hill

Horace Walpole''s Strawberry Hill

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      • Product Description: Horace Walpole (1717-1797), as the youngest son of the powerful Whig minister Robert Walpole, grew up at the centre of Georgian society and politics and circulated amongst the elite literary, aesthetic, and intellectual circles of his day. His brilliant letters and writings have made him the best-known commentator on the rich cultural life of eighteenth-century England. In his own day, he was most famous for his extraordinary collections of rare books and manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, prints and drawings, furniture, ceramics, arms and armour, and curiosities, all displayed at his pioneering Gothic Revival house at Strawberry Hill, on the banks of the Thames at Twickenham. This timely and groundbreaking study of the history and reception of Walpole's collection as it was formed and arranged at Strawberry Hill coincides with a planned restoration of this endangered house. Horace Walpole's "Strawberry Hill" assembles an international team of distinguished scholars to explore the ways in which Strawberry Hill and its collections engaged with the creation of various and interconnected political, national, dynastic, cultural, and imagined histories.

        Michael Snodin is Senior Research Fellow in the Research Department at the V&A. His V&A publications include Design and the Decorative Arts: Britain 1500-1900 (with John Styles, V&A 2001),  Exploring Architecture (with Eleanor Gawne, V&A 2004) and Baroque: Magnificence & Style (with Nigel Llewellyn, V&A 2009). His publications include Funeral Monuments in Post-Reformation England (2000) and his current research focuses on art and identity in eighteenth-century Italy.

      • generic_text_8: Hardback
      • generic_text_3: Edited by Michael Snodin
      • generic_text_7: 978-0300125740
      • generic_text_5: 356
      • generic_text_2: 30.8 x 25.6 x 3 cm
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