Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill [Hardcover]

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Hardcover: 356 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (Dec 15 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300125747
ISBN-13: 978-0300125740
Product Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.7 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 2.3 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #509,678 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Winner of the Society of Architectural Historians 2012 Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award.

The Johnson award recognizes excellence in published exhibition catalogues.

(Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award Society of Architectural Historians )

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Horace Walpole (1717-1797), as the youngest son of the powerful Whig minister Robert Walpole, grew up at the center 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 18th-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 armor, 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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Horace's House, Feb 19 2010

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This is a serious coffee table book whose contents quite knowledgeably describe, in great detail, the extent and meaning of the collection assembled by the 18th century's Horace Walpole for his gothic fantasy residence. It has many lovely illustrations and pictures.

For those who hanker to know more about the famous English house, Strawberry Hill and/or the efforts of Walpole in assembling his varied collection of artistic and historical this and that, this book would be an excellent purchase.

However, the ordinary reader will probably be safe in not buying-- given the book's deep scholarly articles, a distant subject matter, and steep price.

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