Horace Walpole / / Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©1961
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.) :; 72 b/w illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; I. Family --; II. Friends --; III. Politics --; IV. Strawberry Hill --; V. Lord Orford's Works --; VI. The Letters
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691252070; 9783111292908
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691252070?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis.

An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the artsHorace Walpole (1717–1797) was a collector, printer, novelist, arbiter of taste, and renowned writer of letters. In this book, eminent scholar Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis provides an unprecedented look at the life and work of one of England’s greatest men of letters. Lewis sheds light on Walpole’s relationships with his family and friends, his politics, his writings and printmaking activities, and his correspondence. Featuring portraits of Walpole, his relatives, and friends; images of Walpole's sketches and manuscripts; pages from books printed at Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Press; and views and plans of Strawberry Hill, the house, its rooms and furnishings, and its grounds, and accompanied by Lewis’s extensive annotations, this book provides an invaluable history of an extraordinary man.