Enlightenment

Horace Walpole: Works (1798)

This engraved vignette from the title page of vol. II of Walpole's complete works shows Strawberry Hill, a fanciful Gothic styled villa designed by Horace between 1749 and 1776. The villa began as a small 17th century house "little more than a cottage", but was developed by Walpole into a "little Gothic castle". Walpole described it as "the scene that inspired, the author of The Castle of Otranto".

Walpole (Horatio, Earl of Orford) Works, Vol. II. 4to.
London, 1798.
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