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1.
These are matrimonial douceurs [art original]

Creator:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created:
[1765?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A wife has chased her husband out of the house and comes up behind him, holding a broom above her head, ready to strike. He has stopped to pray, hands clasped in front of his chest. Through the open door of their house a chair and some shelves can be ...
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink below image.
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Fighting, Brooms & brushes, Prayer, Antlers, Doors & doorways, and Dwellings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > These are matrimonial douceurs [art original]

2.
[Heraldic figures] [art original]

Creator:
Tovey, J., active 1793-1801, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1793]
Call Number:
Quarto 142 793D
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 182.1. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A drawing in four compartments, two in a row and each labeled: In the upper left, the knight "William de la Zuche, 1280" is shown in profile to the left, kneeling and praying, a dagger hanging from his belt and with a scroll starting at his mouth with...
Alternative Title:
From Dugdale's History of Warwickshire
Description:
Title devised by curator; alternative title written in ink below image.
Subject (Name):
Dugdale, William, 1605-1686.
Subject (Topic):
Prayer and Knights
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Heraldic figures] [art original]

3.
[Study for St. Anthony] [graphic].

Creator:
Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1755]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3585 leaf 1 Box 1
Collection Title:
Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Under an arch, St. Anthony in profile looking left, in prayer with a rosary between his hands and a small crucifix on the table before him. In the left distance a niche with a bowl
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, approximately 250-355 or 356.
Subject (Topic):
Crucifixes, Prayer, and Saints
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Study for St. Anthony] [graphic].

4.
[Woman on her knees, from a mural monument in Chippenham Chapel] [art original].

Published / Created:
[ca. 1750?]
Call Number:
642 750 B62
Collection Title:
Page 190. Collectanea Cantabrigiensia, or collections relating to Cambridge, university, town, and
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Full-length depiction of a woman facing right, kneeling on a cushion with hands pressed together in prayer, a book open on a stand in front of her
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Topic):
Monuments & memorials, Women, and Prayer
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Woman on her knees, from a mural monument in Chippenham Chapel] [art original].

5.
[Youth praying in the courtyard] [art original].

Published / Created:
[ca. 1800]
Call Number:
24 17 791P Copy 7
Collection Title:
Opposite page 100. Castle of Otranto.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Theodore about to be executed in the courtyard of the castle. On the left, Theodore kneels down before the friar Jerome to pray, his shirt slipping down below his lef...
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Castles & palaces, Courtyards, Colonnades, Executions, Prayer, and Helmets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Youth praying in the courtyard] [art original].