Horatius Walpole
Horatius Walpole: imago Horatius Walpole: subscriptio
Nativitas :
24 Septembris 1717 ;
Londinium Obitus :
2 Martii 1797 ;
Londinium Patria :
Britannia
Officium
Officium :
member of the 11th Parliament of Great Britain , member of the 9th Parliament of Great Britain , member of the 10th Parliament of Great Britain , member of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain Munus :
scriptor , mythistoricus , autobiographus , politicus , art collector
Memoria
Laurae :
Societatis Regalis Londiniensis socius Sepultura :
Norfolcia
Horatii Walpole effigies a Rosalba Carriera picta
Horatii Walpole effigies a Iosua Reynolds anno fere 1757 picta
Horatius Walpole , vulgo Horatio et saepius Horace (natus Londinii die 24 Septembris 1717 ; ibidem die 2 Martii 1797 mortuus) fuit eruditus, scriptor artium amator et rerum politicarum peritus Anglicus , filius primi ministri Roberti Walpole . Ob villam rusticam Strawberry Hill (en) a se iuxta Twickenham aedificatam illustris est, a mythistoria gothica The Castele of Otranto et prelum ibi instauratum nomine "Officina Arbuteana ". Amicas Annam Damer , Mariam et Agnetem Berry assidue coluit sed uxorem nullam duxit.
Some Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762)
The Castle of Otranto (1764) Textus apud gutenberg
The Mysterious Mother (1768)
Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III (1768)
On Modern Gardening (1780)
A Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (1784)
Hieroglyphic Tales (1785)
The Letters of Horace Walpole vol. 1 2 3 4 ; alia editio vol. I II
R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Horace Walpole. A Biography (London: Methuen, 1964).
Paul Langford, "Walpole, Horatio, fourth earl of Orford (1717–1797)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 Situs venalis
Timothy Mowl, Horace Walpole: The Great Outsider . London: Murray, 1996. ISBN 0-7195-5619-8