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Walpole's lasting architectural creation is Strawberry Hill, the home he built from 1749 onward in Twickenham, southwest of London, which at the time overlooked the Thames. Here he revived the Gothic style many decades before his Victorian successors.
Horacio Walpole, IV conde de Orford, conocido comúnmente como Horace Walpole, (24 de septiembre de 1717-2 de marzo de 1797), político, escritor e innovador arquitecto británico. Fue primo del marino Horacio Nelson (Lord Nelson).
15 de abr. de 2024 · Horace Walpole (1717–97) was an English writer, connoisseur, and collector best known for The Castle of Otranto, which was the first Gothic novel in English and among the earliest horror stories. He built the Gothic Revival mansion known as Strawberry Hill, and he was a committed writer of letters.
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Strawberry Hill House —often called simply Strawberry Hill —is a Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London, by Horace Walpole (1717–1797) from 1749 onward. It is a typical example of the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style of architecture, [1] and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival.
28 de feb. de 2015 · Horace Walpole’s bauble of a country home near London has been marvelously restored. By Mitchell Owens. February 28, 2015. Strawberry Hill, the pioneering Gothic Revival country house near...
22 de oct. de 2018 · Curious Collection of Historic Oddities Reunited in Horace Walpole’s Neo-Gothic Castle. See more than 150 artifacts originally on view in the estate during the 1700s
Strawberry Hill, Gothic Revival home of Horace Walpole, located on the River Thames in Twickenham (now in Richmond upon Thames, an outer borough of London), Eng. Walpole bought the house as a cottage in 1747 and gradually transformed it into a medieval-style mansion that suggested in its atmosphere.
