Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
Description:
Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Cover-title. and Plates printed on a continuous strip of paper, folded in Japanese fashion ; linen backed ; portrait of the publisher Tilt on back cover. cf. A. M. Cohn, George Cruikshank, no. 189.
Title etched above image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lewes, Charles Lee, 1740-1803. and Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.
Subject (Topic):
Theater, Physiognomy, Heads (Anatomy)., Demons, and Spectators
A satire of a Gretna Green marriage, taking place in front of smithy's shop. Erskine, disguised in woman's dress with a huge feathered bonnet over a barrister's wig, holds the right hand of a demure-looking woman, modishly dressed and apparently pregnant. He holds a paper: 'Breach of Promise'. With them are three young children. The smith wears Highland dress; he holds a red-hot bar on the anvil and raises his hammer, saying, "I shall make a good thing of this Piece at last." Erskine says: "I have bother'd the Courts in London many times, I'll now try my hand at the Scotch Bar--as to Miss C-- she may do her worst since I have got my Letters back." The woman says: "Now who dare say, Blacks the White of my Eye." In the background (right) a young woman rushes down a slope towards the smithy, shouting, "Oh Stop Stop Stop, false Man, I will yet seek redress tho you have got back your letters--" Beside her is a sign-post pointing 'To Gretna Green'. A little boy with Erskine's features, wearing tartan trousers, stands on tip-toe to watch the smith; on the ground beside him is a toy (or emblem), a cock on a pair of breeches. A little girl stands by her mother nursing a doll fashionably dressed as a woman, but with Erskine's profile. Another boy with a toy horse on a string stands in back view watching 'Miss C'. Behind the smith is the furnace; on the wall hang many rings: 'Rings to fit all Hands.'
Alternative Title:
More legitimates
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printed on paper watermarked "1818".
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1819, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, Gretna Green, Gretna Green (Scotland), and Gretna Green.
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Erskine, Sarah Buck, Baroness, -1825, and Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Elopement, Breach of promise, Elopements, Ethnic stereotypes, Forge shops, Metalworking, Furnaces, Anvils, and Hammers
Title page engraved., Attribution to James Gillray based on an inscription on the copy in The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University., Caricatures of Friedrich Rehberg's Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples (originally published 1794), with the figure of Emma Hamilton considerably enlarged., Plates printed on blue paper and mounted., BAC: British Art Center copy imperfect: title page wanting (title and imprint from British Museum Catalogue). Bound in full gilt-tooled long-grain morocco, with gilt edges. Bound by Rivere & Son. Armorial bookplates of Graham of Ardoch and Hampton of Anglesey. Has bound with it: Rehberg, F. Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples ([London?: S.W. Fores?] 1794). The caricatures in the present volume are juxtaposed (on facing pages) with the corresponding originals in Rehberg's work. Also has bound with it, as frontispiece: Dido in despair! (London: H. Humphrey, 1801) [George 9572]., Lewis Walpole Library copy: With original brown wrappers, detached. Inscription in the hand of James Gillray on title page: "Lt. Col. Birch from the Author." Caricatures of the obese Emma Hamilton are on coral-colored paper., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published March 2nd 1807 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1761?-1815 and Rehberg, Friedrich, 1758-1835.
A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Name):
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. Treatise of statues, Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. Account of architects and architecture, and Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. Elements of architecture
Subject (Topic):
Architecture --Orders
Collection Created:
London : Printed by T.W. for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay,
