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1. Book of drawings and prints [graphic].
- Creator:
- Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852
- Published / Created:
- [183-?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B45 830
- Image Count:
- 47
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A collection of prints and drawings probably assembled in the late 1830s or early 1840s, although the drawings may have been executed earlier. The wash drawings by Agnes Berry are of mostly Italian sites in Genoa, Florence, Naples, Rome, and Nice with one drawing of Mont Cenis in France. The lithographs are more varied in theme and include: two engravings after paintings by Raphael, possibly removed from an illustrated book; etchings and lithographs of carriages and coaches; lithographs of buildings; a group of four etchings by Henry Monnier and two lithographs by Delpach; and nine etchings and engravings of contemporary actors and actresses in theatrical costumes. All images have been mounted and most have been captioned, probaby by Margret Graves
- Description:
- Title assigned by cataloger., Bound in green morocco with gold tooling and initials MG [i.e. Margret Graves]., Dedication page: wash drawing with inscription "Margret Graves from Agnes Berry"., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, Actresses, Carriages & coaches, and Costumes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Book of drawings and prints [graphic].
2. [Album of drawings by Henry William Bunbury and Henry Bunbury] [art original].
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry, Sir, 1778-1860, collector, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1780 and 1821]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 780
- Image Count:
- 68
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An album compiled by Sir Henry Edward Bunbury containing character studies and humorous depictions of coaching, hunting, military, domestic scenes, dogs, and people (mostly caricatures) from a variety of social stations, drawn by him or his father in a variety of mediuma directly on the blue album paper or drawn on laid paper that has been mounted on the album paper. Many of the drawings include titles and dates. Also included is a sheet of eleven men shown in profile drawn by an amateur artist "Miss Jones" and entitled "The worthy magistrates and other inhabitants of [illegible] Ashford ... taken by representative of R.B. Esq. at [illegible] ... 1806 by Miss Jones."
- Description:
- Lieutenant General Sir Henry Edward Bunbury (1778-1860), a professional military officer and later, member of Parliament and published historian, was also a caricaturist whose work is very similar to that of his father, Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811)., Title devised by cataloger., Dated from internal evidence., Three drawings removed and folded separately., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures, Clegy, Carriages & coaches, Country life, Couples, Dogs, Hunting, Judges, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Album of drawings by Henry William Bunbury and Henry Bunbury] [art original].
3. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works [graphic].
- Creator:
- 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.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works [graphic].
4. [Drawings of castles and scenes in England and Wales] [art original].
- Creator:
- DeWint, Peter, 1784-1849, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1829 and 1835]
- Call Number:
- 75 D521 829
- Image Count:
- 12
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings of castles and scenes in England and Wales] [art original].
5. [Drawings compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family] [art original].
- Creator:
- Mordaunt family, collector
- Published / Created:
- [between 1815 and 1829]
- Call Number:
- 724 815M
- Image Count:
- 34
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Greece, and Switzerland
- Subject (Topic):
- Ruins and Coastlines
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family] [art original].
6. Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman vases [art original].
- Creator:
- Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1751 and 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 M92 751
- Image Count:
- 69
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A collection of 63 drawings and technical designs, correctly measured, dissected, and geometrically drawn by J.W. Müntz presumably when he worked with Horace Walpole to renew the technique of antique encaustic painting
- Alternative Title:
- Drawings by Müntz
- Description:
- Title assigned by cataloger., Date from early dealer's description in French, mounted on inside front cover., Originally accompanied by a 196 p. manuscript description, now in the Victoria and Albert Library, London. A copy of the translation, incomplete and unverified, filed in the Object file., Bound in deep red morocco, with ornate gold tooling, rebacked., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798.
- Subject (Topic):
- Vases, Ancient
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman vases [art original].
7. Drawings by Ann Rich, 1798 [art original].
- Creator:
- Rich, Ann, active 1798, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1798]
- Call Number:
- 72 798 R498
- Image Count:
- 17
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Album of watercolor drawings depicting exotic animals, copied by the artist Ann Rich from the first few parts of the Naturalist’s Pocket Magazine (London, 1798-1802).
- Description:
- Title from manuscript text on first leaf., Each drawing executed on its own sheet, with a caption written in ink above; bound in contemporary plain paper wrappers., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Animals, Birds, and Butterflies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Drawings by Ann Rich, 1798 [art original].
8. Paintings of exotic plants & insects [art original].
- Creator:
- Robins, Thomas, 1748-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1783 and 1788?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 R558 783 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 20
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Insects, Flowers, and Botanical illustrations
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Paintings of exotic plants & insects [art original].
9. [Folio album of 144 caricatures] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker, collector
- Published / Created:
- [between 1782 and 1810]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Image Count:
- 123
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Folio album of 144 caricatures] [graphic].