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1.
Africa. America [graphic].

Published / Created:
[20 August 1807]
Call Number:
807.08.20.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the left, standing in front of a thatched hut. "Africa" wears a plumed headdress and animal pelt and holds a spear in his left hand; in his right hand he holds a document inscribed "Slave Trade abolish'd 1806." On the right, "America" is Lady Lib...
Alternative Title:
America
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published Augt. 20, 1807 [by W.B. Walker ...?]
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Washington, George, 1732-1799, and Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790,
Subject (Topic):
Indigenous peoples, Huts, Headdresses, Hides & skins, Spears, Slavery, Flags, Portraits, Waterfalls, Snakes, and Crocodiles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Africa. America [graphic].

2.
Chambre du coeur de Voltaire [graphic].

Published / Created:
[10 October 1885]
Call Number:
885.10.10.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The "Bedroom of the heart of Voltaire" in Ferney: a bedroom with alcove bed on the far right, portraits hung on the walls, and to the left a pyramid-shaped altar in an alcove; ... with small bust of Voltaire in the lower margin."--British Museum onli...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Imp. A. Quantin
Subject (Geographic):
France and Ferney-Voltaire.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778 and Château de Ferney (Ferney-Voltaire, France)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, and Portraits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Chambre du coeur de Voltaire [graphic].

3.
Ecce signum, or, Non mi Recordo's visit to the fat good looking gentleman in Pall Mall & their

Published / Created:
[10 October 1820]
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature of Bergami [Majocchi?] presenting a Milan Catechism to George IV seated in a chair with Lady Conyngham looking our behind a screen."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Non mi Recordo's visit to the fat good looking gentleman in Pall Mall & their conversation by signs and Non mi Ricordo's visit to the fat good looking gentleman in Pall Mall & their conversation by signs
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Oct. 10, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Mistresses, Witnesses, Screens, and Portraits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Ecce signum, or, Non mi Recordo's visit to the fat good looking gentleman in Pall Mall & their conversation by signs on the very day the present King's father was buried [graphic].

4.
Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others [art

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
Published / Created:
[ca. 1757]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3581
Container / Volume:
v.1
Image Count:
53
Abstract:
A large portfolio assembled by Horace Walpole from various lots he acquired at the Vertue sale 16 March 1757 including rare prints and drawings, among which are Holbein drawings. In addition to the portfolio, is a small volume of eight portrait drawin...
Alternative Title:
Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others
Description:
Title from item. Title from Hazen: Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings and Portraits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others [art original].

5.
Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others [art

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
Published / Created:
[ca. 1757]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3581
Container / Volume:
v.2
Image Count:
16
Abstract:
A large portfolio assembled by Horace Walpole from various lots he acquired at the Vertue sale 16 March 1757 including rare prints and drawings, among which are Holbein drawings. In addition to the portfolio, is a small volume of eight portrait drawin...
Alternative Title:
Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others
Description:
Title from item. Title from Hazen: Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings and Portraits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others [art original].

6.
Royal love letters [graphic].

Published / Created:
[approximately 1809]
Call Number:
809.00.00.65+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Heading to a broadside printed in two columns. Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, is dressed in an officer's uniform and seated at a writing desk next to a window. He turns to gaze at a portrait of his mistress, Mary Anne Clark, on the wall be...
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image.
Publisher:
Published by M.C. Springsguth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Writing materials, Mistresses, Love letters, and Portraits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Royal love letters [graphic].

7.
The cat's-paw! [graphic]

Published / Created:
[approximately 1832]
Call Number:
832.00.00.52
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire of William IV's involvement in the debate leading up to the Reform Act of 1832: A cat with the face of William IV is being persuaded to pull a hot chestnut from a blazing fire by a bewigged monkey (Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham). The fire is...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Marianne Humphreys, St. James's Stt
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845,
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Cats, Monkeys, Fireplaces, Bookcases, Irons (Pressing), and Portraits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The cat's-paw! [graphic]

8.
[Frontispiece to the catalogue of Charles Jervas's sale, 1740] [graphic].

Creator:
Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1740]
Call Number:
724 791K
Collection Title:
Volume 3, opposite page 466. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the sale of Charles Jervas' studio (1739/40); an allegorical female figure holding a palette and brushes standing on the right, who lays an oval bas-relief portrait of Jervas on a plinth attached to a pyramid, while a...
Description:
Title, artist, and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739,
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Columns, Pyramids, Sculpture, and Portraits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to the catalogue of Charles Jervas's sale, 1740] [graphic].

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