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1. Burlesque sur le burlesque, ou, le grand progres du doguin dans l'arts de peinture ... [graphic].
- Creator:
- Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- priuilege du Roy decembr. 1753.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire on Hogarth's 'Analysis of Beauty'.
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., The first state of this plate; in the second state the title changed to 'The Burlesquer burlesqued'. See Bindman, D. Hogarth and his times., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 290 in volume 3.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Burlesque sur le burlesque, ou, le grand progres du doguin dans l'arts de peinture ... [graphic].
2. Slight sketches of architecture by John Chute, Esq., of the Vine in Hampshire,1753 [art original].
- Creator:
- Chute, John, 1701-1776
- Published / Created:
- [1753]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3490
- Image Count:
- 173
- Abstract:
- A collection of approximately 130 drawings and sketches by John Chute and one etching and engraving entitled Chaucer's Grove by P. Mazell (artist James Pettit Andrews) given to Horace Walpole, for his renovation of Strawberry Hill, bound in one volume and with an additional 23 loose leaves, including sketches for the Gallery, Round Tower, and one inspired by a doorcase in Dugdale's St. Paul's for the presses in the Library. Some of the drawings have been annotated by Walpole and/or Thomas Kirgate
- Alternative Title:
- Original drawings and sketches
- Description:
- Title from ms. title page in Horace Walpole's hand., Title from Hazen: Original drawings and sketches., In English., John Chute (1701-1776), English architect and connoisseur of the arts and literature, member of Horace Walpole's 'Strawberry committee.', Bound in original marbled boards., Inscribed on front fly leaf: "Lady Waldegrave from W.V. Harcourt, July 5, 1887.", On front pastedown, Carlingford's bookplate., Marble boards with half-leather. Written in ink in unidentified hand on front cover: Strawberry Hill (drawings). Paper lable on spine: "33.", The 3 volumes consist of 1 album and 2 cases., and Original marbled boards. Second Strawberry Hill Sale fleuron used as bookplate. Press-mark K.13, but moved to the Closet. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; probably kept in the Glass Closet until 1790. Inscribed on the fly-leaf: 'Lady Waldegrave from W.V. Harcourt, July 6, 1867.' Bookplate of Lord Carlingford, who married Lady Waldegrave in 1863.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Country homes, and Buildings, structures, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Slight sketches of architecture by John Chute, Esq., of the Vine in Hampshire,1753 [art original].
3. [First design for the cul-de-lampe to Mr. Gray's long story] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1753]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 3b Box 1
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A design by Bentley showing six older women on a balcony reaching out or looking in horror over the wall (draped in an embroidered cloth) at a scene below. A man peaks over the cornice; above his head a ribbon banner
- Description:
- Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the mount in his portfolio of Bentley's drawings., With a ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand on lower right corner: RB sculps., With Horace Walpole's note in ink on verso: Mr. Bentley's first etching., Date based on publication date of Gray's work: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray., Formerly mounted on the lower half of leaf 3 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Ms. note in ink in Horace Walpole's hand on verso: Mr. Bentley's first sketch.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
- Subject (Topic):
- Balconies and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [First design for the cul-de-lampe to Mr. Gray's long story] [graphic].
