Live life the Gothic Revival way. Various features at Strawberry Hill, home of Horace Walpole, taken from “A Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole.” Written by Walpole in 1784 with illustrations by various artists and printed by Thomas Kirgate.

Art book/folio, Aspirational decor from folios and magazines., Drawings and sketches, Plates (llustrations) from books 1 Minute
“Chimney Piece of the Holbein Chamber.” Page 42. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/descriptionofvil00walp_0/page/42/mode/1up
“Screen of the Holbein Chamber.” Page 79. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/descriptionofvil00walp_0/page/n78/mode/1up
“The Gallery.” Page 84. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/descriptionofvil00walp_0/page/n84/mode/1up
“Chimney in the Round Room.” Page 93. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/descriptionofvil00walp_0/page/n93/mode/1up
The Shell Bench. Page 133. Taken from A Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole which was written by Walopole in 1784 with illustrations by various artists and printed by Thomas Kirgate. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/descriptionofvil00walp_0/page/n132/mode/1up

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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