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1. Anna Damer [graphic]
- Creator:
- Legat, Francis, 1755-1809, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1793.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 486 21
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text etched in image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark?, and Mounted on page 12 with one other print.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828,
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs and Coats of arms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Anna Damer [graphic]
2. Bank Eating-House, No. 2, Throgmorton Street Geo[rge] Barlow (waitor & succ[esso]r to the late Mr. Markins) respectfully acquaints his friends & the public in general, that he has taken the above house, and laid in, an assortment of the best wines, genuine-brandy, rum & c. &c. ... / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Everard, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1793]
- Call Number:
- File 66 793 Ev93
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- An engraved trade card advertising "Bank Eating-House" in the City of London
- Description:
- Title from item., Date based on death date of Mr. Malkins (i.e., 1793 in the National Archives at Kew)., Card trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- George Barlow?
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Barlow, George.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bars (Drinking establishments)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bank Eating-House, No. 2, Throgmorton Street Geo[rge] Barlow (waitor & succ[esso]r to the late Mr. Markins) respectfully acquaints his friends & the public in general, that he has taken the above house, and laid in, an assortment of the best wines, genuine-brandy, rum & c. &c. ... / [graphic]
3. Collection of four engraved admission tickets to the trial of Warren Hastings: Westminster Hall, undated, 1793 May 23-1794 May 30.
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss File 11
- Image Count:
- 5
- Abstract:
- A collection of four engraved admission tickets to the trial of Warren Hastings for the 75th, 116th, 136th, and 141st days in Westminster Hall, each signed by (presumably) the chamberlain for the day -- Chedworth, Somerset, Darlington, Dorchester. Two are printed in black ink, another in blue, and the fourth in green ink; they all carry seals. Three contain comments in a contemporary hand about the day's proceedings praising Sir Robert Dallas's defense, commenting on the fact of Mr. Pitt's reply, and evaluating Edmund Burke's remarks on his second day of speeches. The ticket for the 116th day contains extensive notes on the verso. The ticket of 136th mentions Mr. Fox's reply to Hasting's counsel. Three of the tickets have been torn in the corner, possibly when the bearer entered the hall?
- Description:
- Warren Hastings (1732-1818) was the first governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. He joined the British East India Company in 1750 as a clerk. In 1757 he was made the British Resident of Murshidabad; appointed to the Calcutta council in 1761; a member of the Madras council in 1769; made governor of Bengal in 1772; and appointed the first Governor-General of India in 1773. However, Hastings resigned in 1784, and, returning to England, was charged with high crimes and misdemeanors by Edmund Burke. He was impeached for corruption in 1787 but was acquitted in 1795., In English., Engraved admission tickets with mss. notations., With Hasting's coat of arms in the center with text around image: For the trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. Peter Burrell Dy. Great Chamberlain., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Chedworth, John Howe, Baron, 1754-1804., Dallas, Robert, Sir, 1756-1824., Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Somerset, Charles Henry, Lord, 1767-1831.
- Subject (Topic):
- Impeachment and Coats of arms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Collection of four engraved admission tickets to the trial of Warren Hastings: Westminster Hall, undated, 1793 May 23-1794 May 30.
4. Cristina, Queen of Sweden after an original drawing. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 August 1793]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Christina, Queen of Sweden
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Possibly engraved after the pen drawing, attributed to Stefano della Bella by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of periodical name above image., Frontispiece to: The Literary magazine and British review ... London : Printed for the proprietors, v. 11 (July 1793)., "Literary magazine"--Above image., and Mounted on page 77 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs, 1 Aug. 1793, by J. Good, Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cristina, Queen of Sweden after an original drawing. [graphic]
5. Cristina, Queen of Sweden after an original drawing. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 August 1793]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Christina, Queen of Sweden
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Possibly engraved after the pen drawing, attributed to Stefano della Bella by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of periodical name above image., Frontispiece to: The Literary magazine and British review ... London : Printed for the proprietors, v. 11 (July 1793)., "Literary magazine"--Above image., Mounted on page 100 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 15.2 x 9.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs, 1 Aug. 1793, by J. Good, Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cristina, Queen of Sweden after an original drawing. [graphic]
6. Death and life contrasted, or, An essay on man [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1793]
- Call Number:
- Print10031
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a landscaped park. Next to him lie a dice box and dice, playing cards, tickets to masquerades, a broken framgment of an EO table, billiard balls and cues, a pedigree, and a book inscribed "Rambler" [i.e., The rambler's magazine, first published in 1783]. In the background stands a garden folly
- Alternative Title:
- Essay on man
- Description:
- Title from item., Artist suggested in Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977., Originally published ca. 1760. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3792., Plate numbered '519' in lower left corner., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 348 x 245 mm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Skeletons, Spades, Gambling, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Death and life contrasted, or, An essay on man [graphic].
7. Death and life contrasted, or, An essay on man [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.00.00.176+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a landscaped park. Next to him lie a dice box and dice, playing cards, tickets to masquerades, a broken framgment of an EO table, billiard balls and cues, a pedigree, and a book inscribed "Rambler" [i.e., The rambler's magazine, first published in 1783]. In the background stands a garden folly
- Alternative Title:
- Essay on man
- Description:
- Title from item., Artist suggested in Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977., Originally published ca. 1760. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3792., Plate numbered '519' in lower left corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Skeletons, Spades, Gambling, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Death and life contrasted, or, An essay on man [graphic].
8. Death of Arthur [graphic]
- Creator:
- Fittler, James, 1758-1835, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Feby. 1, 1793.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 812 B68
- Collection Title:
- Plate [41] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Interior of the palace dungeon at night, where King John's men are gathered with torches, preparing to murder Prince Arthur, who kneels in the centre, pleading with Hubert, who stands on the left holding a dagger and seizing the prince's wrist."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [41] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs, by Robt. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall and Printed by J. Shoveller
- Subject (Name):
- Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, 1187-1203,
- Subject (Topic):
- Assassinations
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Death of Arthur [graphic]
9. Death of Wm. Rufus [graphic]
- Creator:
- Neagle, James, 1760?-1822, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Decr. 1793.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 812 B68
- Collection Title:
- Plate [28] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Title-page to Chapter V of Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; with synopsis of the contents and illustration above showing Rufus lying on the ground in a forest with an arrow in his chest, his horse standing over him, the archer fleeing at right and stags at left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Death of William Rufus
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [28] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
- Subject (Name):
- William II, King of England, 1056?-1100,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Death of Wm. Rufus [graphic]
