Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill
By: edited by Michael Snodin.
Contributors: Snodin, Michael.; Yale Center for British Art.; Lewis Walpole Library.; Victoria and Albert Museum.
Publisher: Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780300125740
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, -- 1717-1797 -- Art collections; Walpole, Horace, -- 1717-1797 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London; Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England); Art -- Collectors and collecting -- England -- London
Other titles: Strawberry Hill
Description: "This study of the history and reception of Walpole's collection as it was formed and arranged at Strawberry Hill coincides with the 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Publication to accompany an exhibition organised by the Yale Center for British Art in association with the Lewis Walpole Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Includes bibliographical references and index.