Horace Collection

View of the west side of Tower Bridge, London, c1950
View of the west side of Tower Bridge, Stepney, London, c1950, from the beach at Tower Wharf, showing children playing. Barges pass along the river in the background

The ocean liner Normandie by G. H. Davis
The new giant French ocean liner which made a record Atlantic crossing in four days, three hours: the " Normandie" - a diagrammatic drawing of her interior construction by G. H

DREADNOUGHT HOAX
VIRGINIA WOOLF as a young woman, with Duncan Grant, Adrian Stephen, Anthony Buxton, Guy Ridley and Horace Cole as " The Emperor of Abyssinia and His Suite"

The Oath of the Horatii. Artist: David, Jacques Louis (1748-1825)
The Oath of the Horatii. Found in the collection of Louvre, Paris

Walpole / Strawberry Hill
HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE FOURTH EARL OF OXFORD Grounds of Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham, home of the English gothic novelist and man of letters Date: 1717 - 1797

Mileage and flight times across the world, 1961 by GH Davis
A map of the world together with various aircraft from British overseas airways and British European airways services to all six continents with mileage and flight times illustrated. Date: 1961

Horace Shorts notebook - sketches of Wright Flyer at Pau
A page from Horace Shorts notebook containing his detailed sketches of the Wright Flyer made at Pau, France, in February 1909. Date: 1909

Horace Wells / Anaesthetic
Horace Wells attempts his first anaesthetised operation in front of a public gallery, but does not administer enough gas & the patient cries out; the crowd jeers him

Walpole / Strawberry 1795
HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE FOURTH EARL OF OXFORD The Gallery at Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham, home of the English gothic novelist and man of letters

Horace in Archway
QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Roman lyric poet and satirist

Horace Walpole / Smith 10
HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE 4TH EARL OF ORFORD English man of letters at the age of ten

Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, SW London - showing part of Horace Walpoles villa in Gothic Revival style. circa 1800

Thurstons Billiards House, Leicester Square - Bombed - 1940
The bombed out remains of Thurstons Billiard House on Leicester Square during the Blitz on London, WWII. The corner building was hit by a parachute mine at 3:30am on 16th October 1940

Old Kingston Bridge
This oil painting shows a boat stocked with various boxes, travelling under an arch of Kingston Bridge, which spans the river Thames in southwest London

A flying hotel: passenger quarters in airship R101
A flying " hotel" : the remarkable passenger quarters in Britains new giant airship, R101. The worlds largest airship

Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, (1809), c. 1910s
Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram on 6th July 1809. Napoleon defeated the Austrians at Wagram, forcing them to sue for peace four days later and bringing an end to the War of the Fifth Coalition

Horace, Lord Farquhar, British financier and politician, 1898. Artist: Spy
Horace, Lord Farquhar, British financier and politician, 1898. Farquhar (1844-1923) served as Treasurer of the Conservative Party from 1911-1923. A print from Vanity Fair, June 2nd 1898

MAGIC BROADSIDE, c1925. Broadside, c1925, announcing a performance in Hungary in which Horace Goldin saws a girl in two in full view with a giant buzz saw

Justice Avory
Sir Horace Edmund Avory (1851-1935) was one of the most noted English criminal lawyers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was the most dreaded hanging judge of his age

Quintus Horatius Flaccus
QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Roman writer known as Horace

Walpole / Strawberry 1788
HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE FOURTH EARL OF OXFORD Grounds of Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham, home of the English gothic novelist and man of letters Date: 1717 - 1797

General Sir Horace Smith-Dorien
Portrait of General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien. In Command of the 2nd Army Corps British Expeditionary Force at the start of WWI. Date: circa 1914

First issue Then Swanska Argus, 1732
XJF3037923 First issue Then SwAÔé¼nska Argus, 1732 by Swedish School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Then SwAÔé¼nska Argus was written entirely by the Swedish poet, Olof von Dalin)

Hunleys David Submarine
Cross-section of Hunleys man-powered David (as in David and Goliath) of the Confederate Navy, the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel

Satire on Republican platform's antislavery plank, 1860
1576707 Satire on Republican platform's antislavery plank, 1860; (add.info.: The rail candidate' The antislavery plank was a controversial feature of the 1860 Republican platform)

Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC) (engraving)
CUL4931205 Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC) (engraving); Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain; (add.info.: Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC). Latin poet

Portrait de Madeleine Roch (1885-1930), sociétaire de la Comédie-Française, dans le... c1910-1913
Portrait de Madeleine Roch (1885-1930), societaire de la Comedie-Francaise, dans le role de Sabine dans "Horace", between 1910 and 1913

Napoleon on his Deathbed, May 1821. Artist: Horace Vernet
Napoleon on his Deathbed, May 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815. After his defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and his subsequent surrender to the British

Louisiana, Baton Rouge, USS KIDD Veterans Museum and ship on the Mississippi River
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HMS Renown, Duke & Duchess of York on visit to Antipodes
Fold out cross section of HMS Renown, the battle-cruiser on which the Duke and Duchess of York travelled to Australia and New Zealand for their tour in 1927. 1927

Horace Mann Date: 1950

The Dreadnought Hoax
THE DREADNOUGHT HOAX The Emperor of Abyssinia and his suite prepare to inspect the Royal Navy : Virginia Stephen (Woolf) on left, Horace Cole on the right Date: February 1910

The Tower Bridge, c1900s. Creator: Eyre & Spottiswoode
The Tower Bridge, c1900s. View of Tower Bridge with bascules open, and the River Thames. The construction of Tower Bridge was begun in 1881 to designs by Sir Horace Jones and it opened in 1894

View of HMS London sailing beneath Tower Bridge, London, 1988
View of the warship HMS London sailing beneath Tower Bridge, Stepney, London, 1988. a fireboat sprays fountains of water into the air in the foreground

Elegy, written in a Country Churchyard, 18th December 1750. Artist: Thomas Gray
Elegy, written in a Country Churchyard, 18th December 1750. Copy, in Grays own hand, of his Elegy, enclosed in a letter written from Cambridge to Dr Thomas Wharton

Reconstructed Warships back in Service. Date: 1939

Horace Hutchinson, Golfer

Golfer Horace Hutchinson

Horace Vernet, French artist
Horace Vernet (1789-1863), French artist, especially of military subjects. Date: 1861

Tower Bridge
A drawing which shows a view from low down, of Tower Bridge, a bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry

Outskirts Of A Southern Town
An oil painting of a tall viaduct which crosses a wide road in the outskirts of a town, a train is travelling along the top of it. Date: circa 1921

Fowls In Sunlight
A painting of some chickens in a clearing of a wooded area, one of them is poking it's head into a tilted basket. Date: circa 1917

Beer
A painting of a rather large man, wearing a green waistcoat and white feathered hat, enjoying a tankard of beer. Date: circa 1914

Tea
A painting of a rather frail and ill looking older woman, wearing a green spotted blue jumper, having a cup of tea at the table. Date: circa 1914

Fowls
An oil painting showing a simple pair of chickens, one brown, one white, darting their vision to the left, inside an enclosed pen. Date: circa 1913

Horace Hodges in Lightnin
Actor Horace Hodges (1863-1951) performing in the play Lightnin at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. Date: 1925

Caricature illustration, captioned, The First Born'. Showing proud father in top hat and tails, with child in bonnet in push chair, and onlookers in street scene

Tower Bridge, River Thames, London
A raised Tower Bridge seen from the southern side of the river towards the Tower of London. The bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge, built between 1886 and 1894

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"Horace: A Journey Through Time and Tales" Step into the world of Horace, where history intertwines with art, innovation, and unexpected adventures. From the enchanting Strawberry Hill to the grandeur of the Normandie ocean liner, Horace's story unfolds. Intriguingly enough, Horace Walpole himself was a key figure in this captivating narrative. As he resided in his Gothic masterpiece at Strawberry Hill, his imagination soared beyond its walls. Little did he know that his legacy would extend far beyond architecture. The DREADNOUGHT HOAX shook society to its core as a group disguised themselves as Abyssinian royals on board the HMS Dreadnought. This audacious act left everyone astounded and amused simultaneously. Art enthusiasts will recognize Jacques Louis David's masterpiece "The Oath of the Horatii, " which captures bravery and sacrifice in every brushstroke. It seems that courage runs through Horace's veins even outside canvas frames. Delving further into his eclectic interests, we stumble upon sketches of Wright Flyer at Pau within Horace Shorts' notebook—a testament to his fascination with aviation pioneers and their groundbreaking achievements. GH Davis takes us on an exhilarating journey across continents with "Mileage and flight times across the world. " The vastness of our planet becomes apparent as we marvel at how far humanity has come since those early days of flight exploration. Horace Wells enters our tale as he revolutionizes medicine with anesthesia—an invaluable contribution that forever changed surgical procedures worldwide. His name echoes through time alongside countless lives saved from pain during medical interventions. Walpole's connection to Strawberry Hill persists throughout history; it witnessed significant events like 1795 when it became home to Sir Richard Colt Hoare—adding another chapter to its rich tapestry. As we wander through archways adorned by statuesque figures named after him—like "Horace in Archway"—we realize that Horace's influence extends beyond the tangible.