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- Creator:
- Patch, Thomas, 1725-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1782]
- Call Number:
- Drawings P294 no. 1 Box D205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A small audience sitting on benches on a tribune next to the equestrian statue of Cosimo I de' Medici in Piazza della Signoria, watching a military parade of the guards of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Lorena (1765-1790), son of the Empress Maria Theresa of Habsburg and brother of Joseph II. The soldiers, forming an L-shaped cordon and led by four battalion officers, are recognizable by their tricorns and the bayonets. At the center of the square, under the grand building of Palazzo Vecchio, stands a troop of drummers. Figures in the the foreground include a group of cavalrymen bearing a banner and followed by a cart on the right; a lady and gentleman waiting for a landau carriage at center; and a figure, maybe a soldier on look-out, watching the scene in Palazzo Uguccioni's shadow on the left
- Description:
- Title and artist attribution from dealer's description. and Date based on artist's death date.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Florence (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Piazza della Signoria (Florence, Italy), and Palazzo vecchio (Florence, Italy),
- Subject (Topic):
- Plazas, Equestrian statues, Military parades & ceremonies, Spectators, and Carriages & coaches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [View of Piazza della Signoria in Florence with the Grand Duke's military guard] [art original].
3.
- 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].
4.
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1780s?]
- Call Number:
- Drawer Drawings B87 no. 31
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A soldier, possibly from the English Civil War, looks with shock towards an arrow embedded in his chest. He sits, surrounded by foliage, holding a dagger in his right hand
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; attributed to Henry William Bunbury., and Date from dealer's description.
- Subject (Topic):
- Soldiers, War casualties, Arrows, and Daggers & swords
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Soldier with an arrow in his chest] [art original].
5.
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1750-1755]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1531
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing in red chalk on hand-ruled paper by an unidentified artist, of the decorative cartouche for John Mitchell's Map of the British and French dominions in North America. Represented in the drawing are two Native American figures in the lower right corner, a colonial port scene in the lower left corner, and cherubs holding a British crest and flag at the top. Corn and palm trees form the side borders
- Description:
- John Mitchell (1711-1768), was a British botanist, physician, and cartographer. He created A Map of the British and French dominions in North America (London: Andrew Millar, 1755), also known as the Mitchell Map, later used in negotiating the 1783 Treaty of Paris., No linguistic content., Title devised by cataloger., and Place and date of creation supplied by cataloger.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and America
- Subject (Name):
- Mitchell, John, 1711-1768.
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America and Colonies
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Cartouche drawing for John Mitchell's Map of the British and French dominions in North America].