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3 giorni fa · Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), of Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham, youngest son, the diarist known to history as "Horace Walpole". He became the 4th and last Earl of Orford on his nephew's death in 1791, and died unmarried and without issue.
2 giorni fa · The term archaeologist is, of course, an anachronism; a younger friend of Horace Walpole, Lysons was proud to call himself an antiquarian. Archaeology — a word that had only recently come into currency — then meant the study and display of ancient objects, not the broad study of places or culture by forensically analysing what remains.
4 giorni fa · Strawberry Hill House, often referred to as Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill, is a notable example of Georgian Gothic Revival architecture. Constructed by Horace Walpole in 1747 in Twickenham, a district of Richmond, it represents the Gothic revivalist style of the 18th century.
4 giorni fa · In January, 1761, two years before the elevation of Mr. Fox to the peerage, Horace Walpole was present at a performance of private theatricals at Holland House—a sight which greatly entertained him.
6 giorni fa · The statue stands upon a square pedestal, upon which is an inscription which states that she was the first wife of Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford, and that " 'Horace, her youngest son,' consecrated this monument," as we have said above.
23 ore fa · The novel that started this enormous success was The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole, published in 1764. Walpole’s task, with this work, was that of distancing and rebelling against the Richardsonian model of novel, with its realistic techniques and its bourgeois attitude toward institutions such as marriage and social relations.
2 giorni fa · Horace Walpole himself resided in this street for many years, before removing further west into Berkeley Square (where he died); and from Arlington Street are dated many of his letters to Lady Ossory.
