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'A Gothic Vatican of Greece and Rome': Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill 12 · ‘A Gothic Vatican of Greece and Rome’: Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, and the Narratives of Gothic Matthew M. Reeve, Queen’s University orace Walpole’s villa or ‘castle’ Description of the Villa of Mr Horace Walpole of at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham is 1774, expanded 1784), and the subject of countless deservedly considered an eccentric topographical images and satires, Strawberry Hmonument in the history of architecture (Fig. 1).1 Hill was the focus of an intensive campaign of As son of Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, mythologization during the eighteenth century. patron of the grand neo-Palladian mansion at It has been estimated that some 10,000 people Houghton Hall, Norfolk, it is not surprising that toured the house in the second half of the century, Horace’s construction of a ‘plaything’ house in a tourist trade that introduced the Gothic as a the Gothic mode was understood to vigorously style of domestic architecture to many visitors.4 oppose his father’s conservative, classicizing tastes Strawberry Hill was not of course the first house at Houghton.2 In a famous and exceptionally built in the style. Sufficient houses and garden camp bit of architectural one-upmanship, buildings were erected by the 1750s to allow one Walpole compared his house to another cause skeptical classicist without the benefit of foresight célèbre of eighteenth-century building, Lord (or our own modernist teleologies of style) to Burlington’s Palladian villa at Chiswick: ‘As my consider the Gothic a capricious freak of taste that castle is so diminutive, I give myself a Burlington had already become passé.5 Strawberry Hill was, air and say that as Chiswick is a model of Grecian however, the first use of the Gothic style to create architecture, Strawberry Hill is to be so of Gothic’ an overall environment that was based in a dense, (Fig. 2).3 Promoted by its owner as a major stop carefully articulated and theorized construction of on the tour of London houses in the eighteenth the Gothic. As such, Walpole’s Gothic at Strawberry century, the subject of the first illustrated Hill was far more than simply an edifice built in guidebook to an English house (Walpole’s A bricks and mortar, or papier-mâché and plaster, as 1. I am grateful to Crystal Lake, a fellow Fellow at the British Art 4. Timothy Mowl, Horace Walpole: The Great Outsider (London: Centre at Yale in 2011–12, with whom I had useful discussions John Murray, 1998), p. 233. Some of the accounts of visitors to about The Castle of Otranto. I am also grateful to William Diebold Strawberry Hill have been collected in Stephen Clarke, ‘“Lord and his seminar class at Reed College, where I presented these God! Jesus! What a House!” Describing and Visiting Strawberry ideas and received much useful commentary. Finally, I thank Hill’, Journal for Eighteenth­Century Studies, 33:3 (2010), 357-80. the staff of the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University for 5. The World, 12 (22 March 1753). For useful overviews of these permission to reproduce their images and for their characteristic monuments, see Michael McCarthy, The Origins of the Gothic kindness and support. Revival (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2. For example, the unpublished poem added to Horace Walpole’s 1987); Timothy Mowl and Brian Earnshaw, An Insular Rococo: own ‘extra illustrated’ copy of the Description of Strawberry Hill Architecture, Politics and Society in Ireland and England, 1710–1770 which develops an elaborate comparison between Houghton and (London: Reaktion books, 1993), pp. 89-108; Morriss R. Brownell, Strawberry Hill: ‘Houghton’s Grandeur strikes the wand’ring Alexander Pope and the Arts of Georgian England (Oxford: sight / but Strawberry Hill is seen with pure delight.’ Lewis Clarendon 1978), esp. pp. 249-328. See recently Matthew M. Reeve, Walpole Library, Yale University, MS 49 3582 (pasted to the inside ‘Of Druids, the Gothic, and the Origins of Architecture: the cover). Garden Designs of William Stukeley’, British Art Journal, XIII:3 3. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence, ed. by (2013), 9-18. Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1937–83), XX, pp. 361-62 (4 March 1753). [185] Matthew M. Reeve, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY the case may be. Rather, it was the formation of an embodied in such antithetical terms as reason entirely new vision for the style. and feeling, rule and freedom, objectivity and A paper on the forms and meanings of the subjectivity’.8 In the terms of Michel Foucault’s Gothic in the eighteenth century appearing in a influential archaeology of the human sciences, we volume devoted to classicism and its replications, might characterize this change as a shift from a and dedicated to an arch-classicist, colleague, and classical to a modern episteme.9 Elsewhere I have friend, Pierre du Prey, might seem unfitting. I argued that one component of this picture was the would therefore like to offer three justifications. emerging sexuality known as the third sex (which First, despite his life-long fascination with anticipates what is now termed ‘homosexuality’) classicism, Pierre was enormously interested to which Walpole and his fellow designers of in Strawberry Hill and the men who created Strawberry Hill (the so-called ‘Committee of it, and I learned much about it from him over Taste’ or ‘Strawberry Committee’) belonged.10 conversations at his Kingston home. Second, For the moment it is significant that Walpole’s Strawberry Hill fits neatly into Pierre’s fascination Gothic was conceived as a conscious alternative with that particular building type – the villa to classicism, a relationship that can be charted – the subject of his much-praised The Villas in terms of the aesthetics, gender, and narrativity of Pliny, which is discussed elsewhere in this of the two modes. As such, the Gothic offered a volume.6 Third, and most significant, since its remarkably perceptive critique of classicism, to theorizations by Raphael and Giorgio Vasari in which it became not so much an opposite but the sixteenth century, the Gothic was positioned rather an evil twin in theory and practice. as an aesthetic other to the classical.7 Its revival in eighteenth-century England was possible and desirable because neoclassicism, and particularly Gothic versus classic: the formal, ascetic, and perhaps typically English patterns of space, patterns of experience version of Palladian classicism, was considered inappropriate or unsatisfying to the new palettes To understand this we might begin by taking of the second and third quarters of the eighteenth Walpole’s comparison between Strawberry Hill century. and Lord Burlington’s villa at Chiswick seriously In the historiography of English architecture, (Figs. 1 and 2). Contemporaries clearly did: in a this change of styles has been seen as the result of doggerel poem first printed in the Craftsman ‘a conflict between the classical doctrine with the and reprinted in Walpole’s 1784 Description, new sensibility […] of contradictory approaches Strawberry Hill is compared favorably to Chiswick 6. Pierre du Prey, The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity ‘Castle Howard and the Emergence of the Modern Architectural (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1995). See Guy Métraux’s Subject’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 62:3 contribution to this volume. (2003), 326-51. 7. Paul Frankl, The Gothic: Literary Sources and Interpretations 9. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the through Eight Centuries (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Human Sciences (New York: Vintage, 1994). Press, 1960. And see recently Anne-Marie Sankovitch, ‘The myth 10. Matthew M. Reeve, ‘Gothic Architecture, Sexuality and License of “the myth of the medieval”: Gothic architecture in Vasari’s at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill’, Art Bulletin, XCV (2013), rinascinta and Panofsky’s Renaissance’, Res, 20 (2002), 29-50. 411-39 and idem, ‘Dickie Bateman and the Gothicization of Old 8. Rudolph Wittkower, ‘Classical Theory and Eighteenth- Windsor: Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Century Sensibility’, in idem, Palladio and English Palladianism Walpole’, Architectural History, 56 (2013), 99-133. See also (London: Thames and Hudson, 1983), pp. 193-204 (esp. 195); George Haggerty, ‘Queering Horace Walpole’, Studies in English Joseph Rykwert, The First Moderns: Architects of the Eighteenth Literature, 46:3 (2006), 543-62; idem, Horace Walpole’s Letters: Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983); and most recently Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century (Lewisburg, David Porter, The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth­Century England PA: Bucknell University Press, 2011). (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Neil Levine, [186] 12 · ‘A Gothic Vatican OF GREECE AND ROME’: Horace WALPOLE, Strawberry HILL, AND THE Narratives OF Gothic and other Palladian houses.11 Typical of the ink multi-faceted and faintly emerald-green jewel that flowed from Walpole’s pen, his commentary by circling around its four sides; each a differ- is flippant and deliciously stylish, while also being ent lesson in architectural composition.13 remarkably astute. Of course, the comparison is A recreation of an antique villa on British soil, apposite because both villas are small in size and Chiswick’s planning, geometry, and ornamentation were built by gentlemen architects. Also, Chiswick suggested a projection or spatialization of the and Strawberry Hill were intended to be toured as neoclassical imaginations of Lord
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