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1.
A brass term sold at Ld. Hallifax sale [art original] : made for one of the ...

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1720 and 1756?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3581 v.1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 53. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Brass term sold at Lord Halifax sale
Description:
Title from ink inscription in lower right corner.
Subject (Topic):
Sculpture
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A brass term sold at Ld. Hallifax sale [art original] : made for one of the ...

2.
A bulla of Pope Boniface the 9th licence & appropriation of the rectory of Gresham in Norfolk to

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1720 and 1756?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3581 v.1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 77. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Bulla of Pope Boniface IX
Description:
Title from ink inscription below image.
Subject (Name):
Boniface IX, Pope, approximately 1355-1404.
Subject (Topic):
Seals (Insignia)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A bulla of Pope Boniface the 9th licence & appropriation of the rectory of Gresham in Norfolk to the priory of the Holy Sepulchre in Thetford, 1399 or 1400. [art original]

3.
A circular brick-tower at Tottenham 16-f. diameter, about 40 f. high in all : in the fore-part or

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1720 and 1756?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3581 v.1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 71. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from ink inscription at top of image.
Subject (Geographic):
Tottenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Coleraine, Henry Hare, Baron, 1636-1708
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Towers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A circular brick-tower at Tottenham 16-f. diameter, about 40 f. high in all : in the fore-part or court-yard at Lord Colerane's house, which has been built time out of mind / [art original]

4.
A collection of Georgian-era gaming counters issued by London clubs and gaming houses

Published / Created:
[approximately 1790-1820]
Call Number:
66 790 C697 Shelved in Object Room C:A
Image Count:
12
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
A collection of six gaming counters or monetary tokens from the gambling houses and clubs of Georgian London. Four were made by John Milton (signed "J. Milton f." or "J.M" on the smaller pieces) with an ace of spades encircled with the quote "Honi soi...
Description:
For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Roulette, and Clubs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of Georgian-era gaming counters issued by London clubs and gaming houses

5.
A collection of Georgian-era tokens for London theaters

Published / Created:
[between 1762 and 1820?]
Call Number:
66 762 C697 Shelved in Object Room C:A
Image Count:
14
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
A collection of seven copper theater passes or tickets for London theatres dating between 1762 and approximately 1820, all blank on the obverse sides except for the token for the Box Prince's Side (BPS 1796) which is decorated with a chain of small li...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of Georgian-era tokens for London theaters

6.
A collection of notes for admission to the House of the Lords for the trial of Queen Caroline

Published / Created:
[1820-1832]
Call Number:
Folio LWL Mss Vol. 286
Container / Volume:
Box 1 / Folders 1-17
Image Count:
34
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Mounted on 34 leaves, a collection of 197 hand-written notes addressed to "the door keeper of the House of Lords" or specifically to Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, requesting that the bearer of the ticket or the person named be admitted to the House of Lords in...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bowyer, Robert, 1758-1834., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.
Subject (Topic):
Publishers and publishing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of notes for admission to the House of the Lords for the trial of Queen Caroline

7.
A collection of prints and a drawing collected by Horace Walpole to illustrate his copy of James

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
Published / Created:
[ca. 1787?]
Call Number:
49 3069
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London :...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of prints and a drawing collected by Horace Walpole to illustrate his copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

8.
A drap of whisky [art original]

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[1792]
Call Number:
Drawings D574 no. 11 Box D117
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A caricatured old man shown half-length to right, sipping from a small glass and his arms around a bottle, resting his elbows on a table, wearing tattered clothes and a hat over a scarf around his head; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue, ...
Alternative Title:
Drap of whiskey
Description:
Title written in ink beneath image.
Subject (Topic):
Whiskey, Bottles, and Eating & drinking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A drap of whisky [art original]

9.
A noted butcher hollering at the Westm. Election 1782 [art original]

Creator:
Walpole, Thomas, 1755-1840, artist
Published / Created:
[1782]
Call Number:
49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
Collection Title:
Page 164. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Noted butcher hollering at the Westminster Election 1782
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from contemporary annotation in ink on verso.
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Butchers, and Shouting
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A noted butcher hollering at the Westm. Election 1782 [art original]

10.
A thing of shreds and patches. Hamlet [art original]

Creator:
Carruthers, William, active 1824, artist
Published / Created:
[1824]
Call Number:
Drawings C319 no. 1 Box D115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor of a beggar dressed in ragged, patched clothes, leaning on two crutches and wearing a bag slung across his body with the words "Scraps thankfully received" lettered upon it. He wears an eye patch on his right eye; a pipe sticks out of his h...
Alternative Title:
Scraps thankfully received
Description:
Title, a quote from Hamlet, written in ink beneath image.
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Poor persons, Refuse disposal, Bags, Crutches, Eye patches, and Pipes (Smoking)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A thing of shreds and patches. Hamlet [art original]

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