Walpole, Horace William, 4th Earl of Orford
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Walpole, Horace William, 4th Earl of Orford (1717–97). English virtuoso and wit. His importance in the realm of architecture lies in his creation of Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Mddx. (from 1750), one of the earliest key buildings of the
Gothic Revival, publicized in his
A Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill (1774 and 1778). This asymmetrical house set precedents for
Picturesque composition. He also helped to make
Gothic fashionable when he published his
The Castle of Otranto, a ‘Gothic Romance’ (1764), an early work of
Romanticism. He included notes on the works of architects in his
Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762–71), and he furthered the study of medieval architecture by encouraging James
Essex in his researches.
Bibliography
M. Aldrich (1994);
Germann (1972);
W. S. Lewis (1960, 1973);
M. McCarthy (1987);
Mowl (1996);
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004);
Jane Turner (1996)
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Art exhibit at I.M. Pei tower turns heads.(PROPERTY MANAGEMENT)
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 7/19/2006; 700+ words
; ...leasing inducement. The Walpole's Leap exhibit is...tenets of the brilliant Horace Walpole, the 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797) an...Novelist and Publisher. Walpole believed in progress...the world anew". Horace Walpole broke conventions...
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The hood old days; EXCLUSIVE BOOZED UP HOODIES WITH KNIVES AREN'T NEW ..THEY WERE SCOURGE OF THE MIDDLE AGES.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 4/12/2008; 700+ words
; ...may have gone out of fashion by the 18th century, the behaviour associated with it had not. In 1749 Horace Walpole, the 4th Earl of Orford, was so concerned about rowdy groups of young men that, after being mugged in London's Hyde Park...
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ANY QUESTIONS: History behind a lovely word.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 10/6/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...discoveries by accident. Horace Walpole (1717-1797), the fourth Earl of Orford, was a wit, social arbiter...Amsterdam edition which Horace Walpole read, and for which he...youngster (he's seated 4th from left in a team photo...
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Walpole's Hall of Fame. (former British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole's collection of paintings; various artists, Kenwood House, London, England)
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...or by his son, Horace. Thirty years after Walpole's death 181 of the...grandson, George, 3rd Earl of Orford, having been valued...authority to her empire. Horace Walpole, George's uncle...portrait - of Philip, 4th Lord Wharton, who...
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Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford 1717-97, English author...youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole . Educated at Eton and...correspondents are Gray, Sir Horace Mann, Thomas Chatterton...succeeded to the earldom of Orford in 1791. Besides his...
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Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford ( b London, 24 Sept. 1717; d London...architect. He was the son of Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745), who was...paintings. In 1739–41 Horace made the Grand Tour , travelling in...
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Walpole, Horace, 4th earl of Orford
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Walpole, Horace, 4th earl of Orford (1717–97). The youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole , Horace Walpole became the most gifted letter-writer in English history...
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Walpole, Horace William, 4th Earl of Orford
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Walpole, Horace William, 4th Earl of Orford (1717–97). English virtuoso and wit. His importance...Revival , publicized in his A Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill (1774 and 1778). This asymmetrical house...
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Walpole, Horace
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Walpole, Horace (1717–97...fourth son of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first prime...and in 1791 he became 4th Earl of Orford. In 1739–41...admission tickets. In 1757 Walpole established his own printing...
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