A collection of 74 from a total of 139 drawings of plants with insects by Thomas Robins, all described in a 19-page catalogue in the artist's hand. The drawings are numbered in pencil [by a later owner?] on the verso, and in a few instances on the recto. For the catalogue Robins created five columns on each page in which he entered for each drawing the Linnaean name, the English name, the class, and the order as well as a list of the insects that appear in the image
Alternative Title:
Paintings of exotic plants and insects
Description:
Title from accompanying catalogue in artist's hand., Artist identified and suggested dates for the collection from Andrew Edmunds of London. See: The flower paintings of Thomas Robins the Younger / edited by John Anthony Robins. Poole Dorset : Published by John Robins, [1999], p. 86., Accompanied by a catalogue in the hand of the artist, listing 39 drawings numbered and identified on 19 unnumbered pages followed by 13 blank leaves. The catalogue with marble wrappers is titled on cover: A catalogue of paintings of exotic plants & insects., The Lewis Walpole Library holds 64 of the 139 drawings; the library lacks nos. 5, 7-9, 11, 13-14, 17, 19, 25-27, 29-30, 33-36, 38-40, 42-45, 47, 49-50, 55-56, 58-61, 64-65, 67, 69-70, 72, 74-75, 78-80, 82, 84, 86, 88-92, 95, 97-98, 110, 115, 118-120, 124, 126, 128, and 134., and Housed in seven solander boxes. The catalogue is housed in Box 1.
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector
Published / Created:
[1732-1764]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Image Count:
76
Abstract:
A collection compiled by Queen Charlotte of 84 Hogarth engravings including: Hogarth painting the Comic Muse; A Harlot's Progress; The Rake's Progress; Marriage a-la-mode; Morning, Noon, Evening, Night, Before, After; A Midnight Modern Conversation; The Distrest Poet; The Enraged Musician; Southwark Fair; Garrick in the Character of Richard III; The Gate of Calais; Sullivan's Paul before Felix; Paul before Felix; Moses brought to Pharaoh's Daughter; The March to Finchley; Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn; An Election Entertainment; Canvassing for Votes; The Polling; Chairing the Members; Bishop Hoadly; Industry and Idleness, plates 1- 12; Simon Lord Lovat; John Wilkes; The Stage-Coach, or The Country Inn Yard; Paul before Felix Burlesqued; A Chorus of Singers; The Company of Undertakers; The Laughing Audience; Scholars at a Lecture; The Five Orders of Periwigs; The Bench; Characters and Caricatures; Frontispiece to the Catalogue; Tailpiece to the Catalogue; Columbus Breaking the Egg; Time Smoking a Picture; The Times, Plates I and II; The Bruiser; Beer Street; Gin Lane; First Stage of Cruelty; Second Stage of Cruelty; Cruelty in Perfection; The Reward of Cruelty; The Invasion, Plate I France and Plate II England; The Cockpit; Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism; Tailpiece, or The Bathos
Alternative Title:
Hogarth's works
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger., Bound according to Her Majesty's direction in three-quarter calf with marble boards, with black leather spine label and gold lettering: Hogarth's works., and For further information consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818. and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
An album of watercolors assembled by the gentleman farmer and amateur artist John Tomes showing views of his manor house Weston Sands House and the surrounding countryside. Tomes recorded his estate from many angles and in all seasons as well as picturesque spots in the neighbouring countryside, including several views of the River Avon which bordered his estate. Also included are a series of watercolors taken on a trip to the Isle of Wight. There is also a view of Windsor Castle (?) across the Thames and many watercolors of medieval ruins, abbeys, and castles. Tomes also copied a number of Turner prints from the ‘Liber Studiorum’ (published 1807-1819) and his ‘Picturesque views on the Southern Coast’ (published 1814-1826).
Alternative Title:
Sketches by John Tomes, Weston Sands
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, based on dealer's description., All but two of the drawings are pasted on the rectos of the album leaves; some have pencil manuscript notes giving the location of the subject; some of the first watercolors mounted on the first pages of the album are dated '1818'., Bound in contemporary rust-colored hard grain half morocco and marbled sides, with gilt lettered morocco label 'Sketches by John Tomes - Weston Sands' to front cover, white moirés silk pastedown., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Warwickshire (England) and Isle of Wight (England)
Subject (Name):
Turner, J. M. W. 1775-1851 (Joseph Mallord William), and Windsor Castle,
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Castles & palaces, Abbeys, Ruins, Estates, and Rivers
An album of illustrations by various artists, probably compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family. The album contains views of coastlines and ports including Port Eliot, home of Mordaunt friends the Eliots of Port Eliot, in the Parish of St. Germans, Cornwall, drawings of ruins, rural scenes with livestock, and a pencil portrait of a girl aged about 10.
Description:
Charles Mordaunt (1771-1823), 8th Baronet, was a member of Parliament representing the constituency of Warwickshire. A Catholic and Whig, he married Marianne, daughter of William Holbech of Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire in 1807; the couple lived at Walton where they raised one son and two daughters: John Mordaunt (1808-1845), Mary Mordaunt Acland (ca. 1811-ca. 1851), and Emma Acland (1813-)., Title devised by cataloger., Drawings are dated from 1815 to 1829 and laid on 29 leaves of various colored paper. Two undated watercolors are signed by Lady Marianne Mordaunt; two other illustrations are initialled S.C.E., possibly Susan Caroline Eliot who was born in 1801. The pencil portrait is signed "M.E. by Miss Masters, 1824." A pencil sketch of a ruin on a cliff is signed F.J. as are two other watercolors with another three unsigned views. Other drawings are signed C.E.W (1824 and 1828) or C.W. Another drawing is signed "M.H. 1829"., Signed and dated drawings include: the William Tell in the market place of Altdorf, Canton of Uri, Switzerland, and Bound in original dark blue grained calf, initialled ‘T.[or C.]S.M.’ on front board, dated 1833 at foot of spine. Armorial bookplate initialled C.J., 1919, on front pastedown; later pencil book label of J.D. Derry, 1947, on first leaf.
A series of eight, small watercolor drawings depicting castles and country houses in England and Wales. The views show: Brancepeth Castle near Durham; Enville Hall in Staffordshire; New Weir on the river Wye, Herefordshire; Hagley Hall, Worcestershire; Hereford Cathedral from across the river Wye; St Paul’s Walden Bury, Hertfordshire; Lumley Castle near Durham; and Chirk Castle near Wrexham, north Wales
Alternative Title:
Drawings by De Wint
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Peter DeWint., Date based on DeWint's visits to Wales between 1829 and 1835. See Oxford dictionary of national biography., Drawings are mounted an album of thirty-four unnumbered blank leaves; each drawing is captioned by the artist below in ink, some are numbered in pencil. Bound in nineteenth-century half black roan over marbled boards with the spine lettered in gilt ‘Drawings by De Wint’; marbled endpapers and edges; old bookseller’s description pasted at foot of first page., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Wales
Subject (Topic):
Cathedrals, Dwellings, Estates, and Castles & palaces
A folio album of 144 caricatures mounted on 87 sheets, mostly etchings, with some aquatints and other satirical prints, some hand-colored, and one pen-and-ink drawing laid in.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Laid in, a wood engraving: Principal characters, in the new play of the road to royalty! [London] : Printed and published by T. Rockliffe, 65 Ratcliff Highway, [1829]., Laid in, an etching: Rats in the barn, or, Iohn Bull's famous old dog Billy astonishing the varment / [figure of Paul Pry] Esqr. [London] : Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [1829]., Laid in, an etching: Funeral of the constitution. [London] : Pubd. March 1809 by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [1809]., Laid in, a lithograph: View of the Houses of Lords and Commons : destroyed by fire on the 16th Octr. 1834. [London] : Pub. by W. Soffe, 380 Strand, [ca. 1834]., Laid in, a pen and ink drawing on watermark paper G. Pike, 1817: The savior of this grateful country : to Kingston 1 mile to London x miles. [England], [ca. 1817]., Note on front pastedown: This book contains the caricatures published by Sayers during his life. This was his own copy and was presented to me after his death. [Signed] Eldon., With Lord Eldon's bookplate., and For further information, consult library staff.