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Hace 6 horas · The house was established by Horace Walpole, who famously wrote The Castle of Otranto in 1764. (Image: Christies) This Grade I structure started from humble beginnings when it was converted from a ...
Hace 4 días · No. 45, on the west side of the square, was the house of the great Lord Clive, the founder of our Indian Empire—"that second Kouli Khan," as Horace Walpole styles him. Sated with success and honours, his restless spirit seems to have enfeebled his nervous system, and there is too much reason to fear that he fell by his own hand, in ...
Hace 1 día · Influenced. Post-Gothic, Gothic Revival architecture, Baroque Gothic. Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. [1] It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by ...
Hace 6 horas · Horace Walpole reported that he breakfasted at Ranelagh on 22nd April 1742 before it had officially opened, along with another 379 people who paid 18d a head. It was the king, George II, who visited and opened the gardens at 11.00 on May 24th 1742 with the Daily Advertiser claiming that some 6000 people were there.
Hace 2 días · The representative text of this chapter is Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), often read as an idealisation of a Gothic past. Edelman refutes this argument by contending that the novel’s engagement with the supernatural was to get at the truth of biological origins, as supported by Walpole’s borrowings of concepts and terms from embryological scientific models.
Hace 2 días · I think it even better that its predecessor, Circus of Wonders, which enjoyed deserved success. The Burial Plot, by Elizabeth Macneal, Picador, £18.99. Set in a convincingly imagined Victorian ...
Hace 3 días · Lewis Walpole Library > [Catalogue of pictures in the Cabinet] side where the cabinet of ivories is. [art original] 33207392 ...
