Drawing of the effigies of a unidentified knight and his lady
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
Five men, heads and shoulders only. Three of the men face each other. The man on the top left wears a nightcap and pince-nez on the tip of his long, hooked nose. The man on the top right looks down and wears the garb of a clergyman with a bishop's mitre on his head. The man on the bottom left wears a wig, a high stock and jabot and has a long nose. The man in the bottom center looks cross-eyed at the other men. The man on the bottom right has a very bulbous nose and face
Alternative Title:
Good morning to your nightcap
Description:
Two heads on left were copied for a print: Good Morning to your Nightcap. See Lewis Walpole Library impression (786.07.07.01)., Inscription in graphite pencil on verso: Original drawing for 'Good Morning to Your Nightcap' Pubd by S.W. Fores July 7, 1786., and Henry Kingsbury, British painter and engraver, fl. 1775-1804 (see Brisith Museum online catalogue).
A drawing of the heads of three men and one woman. In the upper left is the head of a bearded man, facing left in profile, with identification in Greek letters written below and dated above on the left edge "May 29th". In the upper right is the head of a woman, looking downward and turned slightly right and dated "30th". The bottom two heads are men in profile looking left, the one on the right is bearded and the one on the left clean-shaven; the dates "June 1st" and "1st" are written to the left and right
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Statement of responsibility written in ink at bottom of sheet., With pencil annotation "1732" in a later hand at top of sheet., and Bound in after page 128 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A catalogue of engravers ... Strawberry Hill, 1765.
Drawing of Francis Cleyn, formerly Franz Klein, painter and tapestry designer born in German and raised at the Danish court. After travelling in Italy, he moved to England in 1623 and worked in the Court of Charles I.
Alternative Title:
Francis Cleyn
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Cleyn in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 127., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, artist
Published / Created:
[1776?]
Call Number:
Drawings L893 no. 2 Box D135
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Graphite pencil drawing: a young slender man, protruding chin turned upwards, walks in profile to the right. The man wears a small cap over long frowzled hair and carries a walking-stick in the crook of his right arm
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from on print by Loutherbourg and published by William Holland: From Eaton which was based on this drawing., and Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, British painter and Royal Academician, 1740-1812.
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, artist
Published / Created:
[1776?]
Call Number:
Drawings L893 no. 1 Box D135
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Graphite pencil drawing of a black woman wearing a dress with sylized and elongated pleats and ruffles extending from some hemlines. Her bonnet is exagerated to the point of obscuring her eyes
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on the etching by Loutherbourg and published by William Holland which was based on this drawing., and Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, British painter and Royal Academician, 1740-1812.
On the recto, a drawing showing the floor plan of the library Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham; with Bentley's notes including dimensions. On the verso, a rough pen and ink sketch of the library bays
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from Horace Walpole correspondence., and Formerly mounted on leaf 39 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Private libraries, and Libraries (Rooms)
On the recto, a drawing showing the floor plan of the library Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham; with Bentley's notes including dimensions. On the verso, a rough pen and ink sketch of the library bays
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from Horace Walpole correspondence., and Formerly mounted on leaf 39 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Private libraries, and Libraries (Rooms)
Pair of wash drawings, one above the other, showing overall and detail views of the bronze hand kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. Described by Walpole as "an Egyptian hieroglyphic hand," this sculpture is shown in the top drawing to stand upright with the wrist as its base. The thumb, index finger, and middle finger point upwards with items balancing upon their tips; the last two fingers are curled inward towards the palm. The bottom drawing shows in detail the pictures and symbols that decorate the palm and back side of the hand; these include a snake that wraps around the entirety of the hand
Alternative Title:
In the Tribune (size of the original) ; All the work round the hand
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Inscription in pencil below top image: In the tribune (size of the original)., Inscription in pencil below bottom image: All the work round the hand., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 163 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Ink drawing depicting the head of a satyr, in profile to the left. Possibly a decorative motif designed by the London goldsmith Jeconiah Ashley, whose name is written on both the recto and the verso of the mount
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production from local catalog card., Below image on mount is the name "Jeconiah Ashley" written in ink, possibly in the hand of Horace Walpole. On verso of mount in a different(?) contemporary hand is written: Jeconiah Ashley, goldsmith, opposite the New Church in the Strand., Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 121 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with two other drawings to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
