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1. [Album of watercolors of the countryside around Weston Sands House] [art original].
- Creator:
- Tomes, John, 1791-1863, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1818-1850]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 T656 818
- Image Count:
- 96
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Album of watercolors of the countryside around Weston Sands House] [art original].
2. George Steevens's collection of Hogarth prints [graphic].
- Creator:
- Steevens, George, 1736-1800, collector
- Published / Created:
- [between 1756 and 1800]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 108
- Abstract:
- Three elephant folio volumes containing 705 prints and tracings: 469 prints by Hogarth; 236 additional satires after Hogarth's prints by contemporary artists George Bickham, Samuel Ireland, and Paul Sandby. Also included are rare trade cards and coats of arms; Hogarth's shop-card as well as those of his sister, Ellis Gamble, and Edward Vaughan; Harrison's Tobacco Paper; Arms of Sir Gregory Page, Kendal and other coats-of-arms; theatre tickets including tickets for the Theatre Royal. The contents include examples from Hogarth complete oeuvre including: The Harlot's progress, first and later states; The Rake's progress, first and later states, including two unfinished proofs; The four times of day, including an unfinished proof; Strolling players, first and second states; Hogarth's Tour by R. Livesay after Samuel Scott, a set of nine colored, with An Account, five leaves; Some of the Principal inhabitants of the moon, etc. Also with a printed list annotated in Hogarth's hand
- Description:
- Title assigned by cataloger., Bound in brown calf, rebacked., Date surmised based on Steevens earliest date on interest in Hogarth and Steevens's death date., With the armorial bookplate of William Windham; also with the bookplate of Charles William Dyson Perrins., Items removed from volume 2 stored separately in two solander boxes., and For further information consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > George Steevens's collection of Hogarth prints [graphic].
3. George Steevens's collection of Hogarth prints [graphic].
- Creator:
- Steevens, George, 1736-1800, collector
- Published / Created:
- [between 1756 and 1800]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 108
- Abstract:
- Three elephant folio volumes containing 705 prints and tracings: 469 prints by Hogarth; 236 additional satires after Hogarth's prints by contemporary artists George Bickham, Samuel Ireland, and Paul Sandby. Also included are rare trade cards and coats of arms; Hogarth's shop-card as well as those of his sister, Ellis Gamble, and Edward Vaughan; Harrison's Tobacco Paper; Arms of Sir Gregory Page, Kendal and other coats-of-arms; theatre tickets including tickets for the Theatre Royal. The contents include examples from Hogarth complete oeuvre including: The Harlot's progress, first and later states; The Rake's progress, first and later states, including two unfinished proofs; The four times of day, including an unfinished proof; Strolling players, first and second states; Hogarth's Tour by R. Livesay after Samuel Scott, a set of nine colored, with An Account, five leaves; Some of the Principal inhabitants of the moon, etc. Also with a printed list annotated in Hogarth's hand
- Description:
- Title assigned by cataloger., Bound in brown calf, rebacked., Date surmised based on Steevens earliest date on interest in Hogarth and Steevens's death date., With the armorial bookplate of William Windham; also with the bookplate of Charles William Dyson Perrins., Items removed from volume 2 stored separately in two solander boxes., and For further information consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > George Steevens's collection of Hogarth prints [graphic].
4. George Steevens's collection of Hogarth prints [graphic].
- Creator:
- Steevens, George, 1736-1800, collector
- Published / Created:
- [between 1756 and 1800]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 108
- Abstract:
- Three elephant folio volumes containing 705 prints and tracings: 469 prints by Hogarth; 236 additional satires after Hogarth's prints by contemporary artists George Bickham, Samuel Ireland, and Paul Sandby. Also included are rare trade cards and coats of arms; Hogarth's shop-card as well as those of his sister, Ellis Gamble, and Edward Vaughan; Harrison's Tobacco Paper; Arms of Sir Gregory Page, Kendal and other coats-of-arms; theatre tickets including tickets for the Theatre Royal. The contents include examples from Hogarth complete oeuvre including: The Harlot's progress, first and later states; The Rake's progress, first and later states, including two unfinished proofs; The four times of day, including an unfinished proof; Strolling players, first and second states; Hogarth's Tour by R. Livesay after Samuel Scott, a set of nine colored, with An Account, five leaves; Some of the Principal inhabitants of the moon, etc. Also with a printed list annotated in Hogarth's hand
- Description:
- Title assigned by cataloger., Bound in brown calf, rebacked., Date surmised based on Steevens earliest date on interest in Hogarth and Steevens's death date., With the armorial bookplate of William Windham; also with the bookplate of Charles William Dyson Perrins., Items removed from volume 2 stored separately in two solander boxes., and For further information consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > George Steevens's collection of Hogarth prints [graphic].
5. [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].
6. 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].
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. 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].
9. [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].