Could I describe the tranquil scene where it stands, and add the beauty of the landscape to the romantic cast of the mansion, it would raise more pleasing sensations than a dry list of curiosities can excite: at least the prospect would recall the good humour of those who might be disposed to condemn the fantastic fabric, and to think it a very proper habitation of, as it is, the scene that inspired, the author of the Castle of Otranto (Walpole 5).
Architecture
- Horace Walpole's Taste for the Gothic: Strawberry Hill (by Charles Eastlake)
- The Hall and Staircase
- The Refectory or Great Parlour
- The Library
- The Gallery
- The Round Drawing-Room
- The Tribune
- Strawberry Hill. L[or]d Waldegrave's. Twickenham (seen from the Thames; this view is now blocked)
- Nineteenth-century Additions by Lady Waldegrave
Stained Glass
- Stained Glass at Strawberry Hill
- The Little Parlour
- The Great Parlour/Refectory
- The Blue Bed-Chamber
- The Library
- The Star Chamber
- The Gallery
- The Round Drawing-Room
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"Horace Walpole 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill" (Local History Notes). London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames. Web. 5 September 2014.
Haggerty, George E. Horace Walpole's Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century. Langham, Maryland: Bucknell University Press/Bowman & Littlefield, 2011.
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Peover, Michael. Strawberry Hill: Renaissance Glass. London: Scala, 2010.
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