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Horace Walpole

1717–1797 1 volume Gothic & Horror
Hieroglyphic Tales — cover

The life

Horace Walpole was an English writer, collector and politician, son of Britain's first prime minister, who turned his villa at Strawberry Hill into a Gothic fantasy of battlements and stained glass and started an architectural fashion. The Castle of Otranto (1764), passed off at first as a translation from an old Italian manuscript, founded the Gothic novel. His letters run to some four thousand.

Paintings from these volumes
A View of Alexander Pope’s Villa, Twickenham, on the Banks of the Thames.
A View of Alexander Pope’s Villa, Twickenham, on the Banks of the Thames. Samuel Scott
The City of Westminster from River Thames near the York Water Gate
The City of Westminster from River Thames near the York Water Gate Canaletto
Lodge Park, Gloucestershire
Lodge Park, Gloucestershire George Lambert
A Wooded Landscape with a Stream and a Fisherman
A Wooded Landscape with a Stream and a Fisherman Thomas Smith
Minuet in the park.
Minuet in the park. Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
The fish seller
The fish seller Frans van Mieris the Younger
In the library

1 volume by Walpole

The whole library
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Hieroglyphic Tales

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