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List of Illustrations vii --<br/>Preface: Medievalism, Modernity, and the History of Sexuality xi --<br/>Abbreviations xix --<br/>Introduction 1 --<br/>1 The New Medievalism Constructing the Gothic in the Circle of Horace Walpole 19 --<br/>2 Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill 49 --<br/>3 Queer Family Romance in the Strawberry Hill Collection 89 --<br/>4 Dicky Bateman and the Gothicization of Old Windsor 119 --<br/>5 “The Spirit of Strawberry-Castle” Donnington Grove, The Vyne, and Lee Priory 145 --<br/>6 From Strawberry Hill Gothic to the Gothic Revival 179 --<br/>Notes 191 --<br/>Bibliography 219 --<br/>Index 241 --<br/>ILLUSTRATIONS<br/>1. George Perfect Harding after J.H. Müntz, Horace Walpole in His Library [at Strawberry<br/>Hill] xx --<br/>2. Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill, after restoration 1 --<br/>3. Houghton Hall, Norfolk 4 --<br/>4. Lord Burlington’s villa at Chiswick 8 --<br/>5. “A Common Council Man of Candlestick Ward and his Wife … near Clapham” 9 --<br/>6. Philip Dawe, “The Macaroni: A real Character at the late Masquerade” 10 --<br/>7. Batty Langley, “Eleventh Frontispiece” 21 --<br/>8. William Kent, “The Redcross Knight Introduced by Duessa to the House of Pride” 23 --<br/>9. Canaletto, Interior of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge 28 --<br/>10. Temple of Liberty, Stowe 31 --<br/>11. Walpole arms with stags and the family motto, Fari quae sentiat 33 --<br/>12. John Carter, view in the Oratory at Strawberry Hill 35 --<br/>13. John Carter, view from the Hall at Strawberry Hill 36 --<br/>14. “A Scene in a Nunnery Garden”39 --<br/>15. John Carter, model of the tomb of Thomas Becket 40 --<br/>16. Thomas Rowlandson, Nuns at Prayer in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill 40 --<br/>17. John Donowell, entrance to the Hellfire Caves 41 --<br/>18. William Hogarth, Sir Francis Dashwood at His Devotions 42 --<br/>19. Fay ce que voundras, carved above the main entrance to Medmenham Abbey 42 --<br/><br/>20. John Carter, The Entry of Frederick into the Castle of Otranto 45 --<br/>21. Richard Bentley, dedicatory frontispiece to Horace Walpole’s Memoires of George II 48<br/>--<br/>22. John Giles Eccardt and John Wootton, Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole and Catherine<br/>Shorter, His First Wife 51 --<br/>23. John Chute, design for the Cloister and Long Gallery at Strawberry Hill 55 --<br/>24. Luke Sullivan, “A View of Esher in Surry [sic], the Seat of the Late Rt. Honble. Henry<br/>Pelham Esqr.” 57 --<br/>25a. Ground plan of Strawberry Hill, 1781 58 --<br/>25b. Floor plan of Strawberry Hill, 1781 59 --<br/>26. Edward Edwards, staircase at Strawberry Hill 60 --<br/>27. J. H. Müntz, “East view of Strawberry-hill near Twickenham in Middlesex” 61 --<br/>28. Edward Edwards, the Gallery at Strawberry Hill 62 --<br/>29. John Carter, the Round Drawing Room 63 --<br/>30. John Carter, the Holbein Chamber 65 --<br/>31. Chimneypiece of the Holbein Chamber 66 --<br/>32. Tomb of Archbishop Warham 66 --<br/>33. Screen of the Holbein Chamber 67 --<br/>34. “Jubé de Leglise de St Ouen”67 --<br/>35. Richard Bentley, screen in the Holbein Chamber 67 --<br/>36. John Carter,the Tribune at Strawberry Hill 69 --<br/>37. J. H. Müntz, “From the Inside of the Great Church at St Albans” 70 --<br/>38. “An internal perspective view of the Chapter house at York” 70 --<br/>39. West window at York Minster 71 --<br/>40. Johann Zoffany, Tribuna of the Uffizi 72 --<br/>41. John Carter, the Refectory at Strawberry Hill 73 --<br/>42. Chimneypiece in the Refectory 74 --<br/>43. William Hallett Sr., one of eight Gothic chairs for the Strawberry Hill Refectory 74 --<br/>44. George Perfect Harding, Gothic table 74 --<br/>45. Gothic canopies in the Long Gallery at Strawberry Hill 75 --<br/>46. Wenceslaus Hollar, “Ecclesiae Cathedralis Sti. Pauli Orientalis facies” 76 --<br/><br/>47. Robert Adam, design for the ceiling of the Round Room at Strawberry Hill 77 --<br/>48. Richard Bentley, perspective of the Hall and staircase at Strawberry Hill 78 --<br/>49. Chantry chapel of Prince Arthur at Worcester Cathedral 79 --<br/>50. A painted window formerly employed as fictive tracery on the north front of the Gallery<br/>80 --<br/>51. Edward Edwards, the Library at Strawberry Hill 81 --<br/>52. Wenceslaus Hollar, “Partis exterioris Chori ab Occidente prospectus” 82 --<br/>53. William Hogarth, Taste in High Life 83 --<br/>54. John Shute, “Dorica” 85 --<br/>55. Detail from A Collection of the Spintrian Medals of Tiberius 92 --<br/>56. Simon Thomassin, “Antinoüs” 93 --<br/>57. William Hallet Sr., the Walpole Cabinet 94 --<br/>58. John Carter, “The Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels” 95 --<br/>59. A miniature from Walpole’s cabinet, described as “a sleeping hermaphrodite between<br/>satyrs” 96 --<br/>60. Simon Thomassin, “L’Hermaphrodite” 96 --<br/>61. Pompeo Batoni, Portrait Miniature of John Chute 97 --<br/>62. The Brand Cabinet 97 --<br/>63. Bronze medal of Pope Paul III (Observe) with Ganymede and Jupiter as eagle (reverse) 98<br/>--<br/>64. I. Truepenny, “Miss Prettyman in Clover”99 --<br/>65. Pier Leone Ghezzi, Baron Philipp von Stosch Receiving Roman Antiquaries 101 --<br/>66. Marble eagle on an alter base (Boccapadugli Eagle), originally displayed in the Long<br/>Gallery 102 --<br/>67. Joshua Reynolds, Horace Walpole 103 --<br/>68. Benvenuto Cellini, Ganymede and Jupiter 104 --<br/>69. J.H. Müntz, monumental brass of Ralph Walpole, bishop of Norwich and Ely 106 --<br/>70. William Hallett Sr., Gothic lantern from the main staircase at Strawberry Hill 106 --<br/>71. Strawberry Hill Library ceiling 110 --<br/>72. Blue Bedchamber after restoration, Strawberry hill 112 --<br/><br/>73. John Giles Eccardt, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams 114 --<br/>74. John Giles Eccardt, Thomas Gray 114 --<br/>75. John Giles Eccardt, Richard Bentley 114 --<br/>76. John Giles Eccardt, Horace Walpole 114 --<br/>77. Joshua Reynolds, The Out of Town Party 115 --<br/>78. Robert Levrac-Tournières, Richard Bateman 118 --<br/>79. Dicky Bateman’s Old Windsor, Berkshire 120 --<br/>80. Shobdon church, Herefordshire, exterior 121 --<br/>81. Shobdon church, Herefordshire, interior 121 --<br/>82. Shobdon Arches, Herefordshire 122 --<br/>83. John Carter, “The Crucifix under the Shrine in the Chapel” 124 --<br/>84. Walrus-ivory draughts piece 124 --<br/>85. View of the farmhouse, Old Windsor 126 --<br/>86. View of Grove House, Old Windsor 126 --<br/>87. Thomas Robins, Prospect from the Meadow, Grove House, Old Windsor, detail 127 --<br/>88. Thomas Robins, Prospect from the River, Grove House, Old Windsor, detail 127 --<br/>89. J.H. Müntz, “Elevation of Mr. Bateman’s Gothik Room at Old Windsor” 129 --<br/>90. J.H. Müntz, “Section of the Honble. Rich. Bateman’s Octagone [sic] Room at Old<br/>Windsor” 129 --<br/>91. Bateman’s dining room at Old Windsor 130 --<br/>92. J.H. Müntz, elevation of a cloister for Grove House, Old Windsor 130 --<br/>93. Richard Bentley, “Gothic Cloyster designed by Mr. Bentley” 130 --<br/>94. J.H. Müntz, the tomb of Caducanus, Old Windsor 131 --<br/>95. George Perfect Harding, Geat Cloister at Strawberry Hill, showing chairs acquired from<br/>Dicky Bateman 132 --<br/>96. Malmesbury Châsse, champlevé enamel reliquary 133 --<br/>97. “The Man Milliner,” satiric print featuring Mr. Fribble 137 --<br/>98. “The Modern Duel, Taken from Miss in her Teens, as it’s now Acter at Covent<br/>Garden”138 --<br/><br/>99. Thomas Holloway, “Contrasted attitudes of a man and a fribble” 141 --<br/>100. Peter Mazell. “Chaucer’s Grove near Spidehill the Seat of Mr. Andrews” 147 --<br/>101. Edwin W. Jacques, “Plas Newydd, near Llangollen”147 --<br/>102. Donnington Grove, Berkshire 149 --<br/>103. John Chute, “Designs of a Gothic House for Mr Andrews in Berkshire 150 --<br/>104. Richard Bentley (attrib.), preliminary drawings of Donnington Grove 150 --<br/>105. John Chute (attrib.), probably Chute’s design for a “a rustic Gothic Temple in flint” at<br/>Donnington 151 --<br/>106. Donnington Castle 151 --<br/>107. Donnington Grove, staircase 152 --<br/>108. Donnington Grove, upper gallery 153 --<br/>109. James Pettit Andrews, the library at Donnington Grove 153 --<br/>110. Thomas Penrose, copies of figures from Walpole’s copy of Giovanni Battista Braccelli’s<br/>Bizzarie di varie figure 154 --<br/>111. “Armour as it was placed on the staircase at the Grove and the ‘Gilded Caque’ –In the<br/>Revd. Penrose’s Poem of ‘The Helmets”’155 --<br/>112. Gabriel Mathias, John Chute 156 --<br/>113. J.H. Müntz, The Vyne from the North East 157 --<br/>114. Detail of the scagliola tabletop in the Oak Gallery at the Vyne, Hampshire 158 --<br/>115. Stonework eagle at the Vyne, Hampshire 158 --<br/>116. Façade designs in the hand of John Chute 159 --<br/>117. The staircase hall at the Vyne, Hampshire 159 --<br/>118. The chapel at the Vyne, Hampshire, facing east 160 --<br/>119. The antechapel, the Vyne, Hampshire 160 --<br/>120. The chapel at the Vyne, Hampshire, facing west 162 --<br/>121. Decorations by Spiridione Roma on the north wall of the chapel at the Vyne, Hampshire<br/>163 --<br/>122. John Chute’s drawing of the west wall of the chapel at the Vyne, Hampshire 163 --<br/>123. The interior of the tomb chanber at the Vyne, Hampshire 164 --<br/>124. Joh Dixon, View of the South Façade of Lee Priory 167 --<br/><br/>125. Limoges champlevé enamel candlesticks from Lee Priory 168 --<br/>126. John Carter, posthumous portrait of Thomas Barrett in his library 168 --<br/>127. James Wyatt, the Strawberry Room, Lee Priory 169 --<br/>128. James Wyatt, the bookcase from Lee Priory library 170 --<br/>129. John Carter (attrib.), “North view of Lee, the seat of Thos. Barrett Esq., near Canterbury,<br/>Taken 1785” 171 --<br/>130. Lee Priory, ground plan 171 --<br/>131. Dominican monastery of Batalha, Portugal 171 --<br/>132. Lee priory entrance hall 172 --<br/>133. John Carter, “View in the Walpole Closet at Lee” 173 --<br/>134. Lee Priory library 173 --<br/>135. John Carter, “View in the Library at Lee” 174 --<br/>136. Frontispiece to Walpole’s Description (1784) 174 --<br/>137. Lee Priory, library antechamber reconstruction 175 --<br/>138. Edward J. Lennox, Casa Loma, Toronto 177 --<br/>139. Joseph M. W. Turner, Perspective View of Fonthill Abbey from the South-West 186 --<br/>140. “Fonthill Abbey: Interior of the Great Western Hall” 187 -- |