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1. A midnight modern conversation [graphic]
- Creator:
- Parr, Richard, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1733 and 1767]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 26K Box 305
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A drunken group of men around a table in a tavern
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date from printsellers' active dates., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 128.
- Publisher:
- Sold by Tho. Bowles in Paul's Church Yard and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
- Subject (Topic):
- Taverns (Inns) and Intoxication
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A midnight modern conversation [graphic]
2. Hearnius behold! in closet close y-pent [graphic]
- Creator:
- Parr, Richard, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- printed in the year MDCCXXXVI [1736]
- Call Number:
- 736.00.00.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from first line of letterpress verse surrounding the image., Engraved from Hearne's portrait by Tillemans., Four lines of satirical verse printed around the plate: Hearnius, behold! in closet close y-pent, Of sober face, with learned dust besprent, To future ages will his dulness last, Who hath preserv'd the dulness of the past., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum., Subject identified by J. Reed on second mounting sheet, recto and in later unknown hand on first mounting sheet, recto., and Mounted to 22 x 18 cm, window mounted to 30 x 24 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hearne, Thomas, 1678-1735,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hearnius behold! in closet close y-pent [graphic]
3. The King & Miller of Mansfield, representing the scene of knighting the miller engraved from the original painting in Vaux Hall Garden / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Parr, Richard, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- Folio LWL Mss Vol. 191
- Collection Title:
- Page 101. Vauxhall miscellany.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "In a dining hall, the King standing at right draws his sword to knight the miller kneeling at left, a group of three men and one woman standing behind him, another figure stands behind the table at right, a dog at the other side leaning on a bench; after an untraced painting by Hayman for Vauxhall Gardens (Allen CL 215)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- King and Miller of Mansfield, representing the scene of knighting the miller
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Later state, with printing plate trimmed at top and bottom, removing part of the original design. Title and statements of responsibility re-engraved in newly-created lower margin, with original "N. Parr sculp." printmaker's signature changed. For an earlier state published by Thomas and John Bowles in 1743, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,1011.609., Date of publication based on the separation of John and Carington Bowles's names in imprint statement; Carington Bowles separated his business from his father's in 1764. See British Museum online catalogue. See also Carington Bowles's entry in: Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800., Plate numbered "a. 3" in upper right corner., Inlaid to 38 x 55 cm., and Mounted on page 101 in an album containing material relating to Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, with the spine title: Vauxhall miscellany.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Name):
- Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Dining rooms, Kings, Daggers & swords, Millers, Knighting, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The King & Miller of Mansfield, representing the scene of knighting the miller engraved from the original painting in Vaux Hall Garden / [graphic]
4. The danger and folly of goeing to law [graphic]
- Creator:
- Parr, Richard, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament Septr. 1740.
- Call Number:
- 740.09.00.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Danger and folly of going to law
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The design is composed of a large rectangular image at top center of sheet and another image below it, both flanked by three small images in form of vignettes on each side., Central upper panel is a reissue of a plate published ca. 1733: Law is a bottomless pit. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1990., Verse inscribed below image: Two neighbors sought revenge: to law they went, thro' passions blind, spurr'd on by discontent ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Courtrooms, Law & legal affairs, and Judicial proceedings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The danger and folly of goeing to law [graphic]
5. The danger and folly of goeing to law [graphic]
- Creator:
- Parr, Richard, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, Septr. 17th 1775.
- Call Number:
- 775.09.17.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Danger and folly of going to law and Law is a bottomless pit
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The design is composed of a large rectangular image at top center of sheet and another image below it, and three small images in form of vignettes on each side of the sheet., Possibly a 2nd state, with title of the 1733 edition of the rectangular image at top etched in the enter of that image. Cf. The danger and folly of goeing to law / George Davise inv. ; R. Parr sculp. [London], 1740, and Law is a bottomless pit, ca. 1733., Central upper panel is a later state of Law is a bottomless pit, ca. 1733. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1990., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Folded and mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
- Publisher:
- Sold by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The danger and folly of goeing to law [graphic]
6. To Sr. Hugh Smithson, bart. this view of the city of London, taken through one of the centers of the arches of the new bridge at Westminster and engrav'd from a painting of Canaletti, is most humbly dedicated by his most obliged humble servant, John Brindley [graphic]
- Creator:
- Parr, Richard, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, 1747.
- Call Number:
- Topos L847 no. 134++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A view of London through one of the arches of Westminster Bridge, with boats on the Thames and lumber yards on the right; St Paul's in the distance on the right, and the prominent steeples of other churches lettered with a number for identification"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- This view of the city of London, taken through one of the centers of the arches of the new bridge at Westminster ...
- Description:
- Title from dedication engraved below image., Key with the names of the churches numbered within image is etched on either side of dedication., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Brindley, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in New Bond Str
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), Westminster Bridge (London, England),, and Thames River (England),
- Subject (Name):
- St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches and Boats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > To Sr. Hugh Smithson, bart. this view of the city of London, taken through one of the centers of the arches of the new bridge at Westminster and engrav'd from a painting of Canaletti, is most humbly dedicated by his most obliged humble servant, John Brindley [graphic]
