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2.
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1786]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 24. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A Punch-like figure is shown standing to front, with head in profile to the left, holding a paper in each hand. A goat stands beside him on the right; a pole with a sign 'To Wynnstay' (lettered backwards) is on the left, pointing to the right. A design for an admission ticket for the theater at Wynnstay, the private theater of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn
- Alternative Title:
- To Wynnstay
- Description:
- Title and date from those supplied in the British Museum catalog for the print made after this drawing., Attribution to Bunbury based on inclusion of the drawing in a volume of the artist's work., Mounted with a related drawing and a print on page 24 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Original design, with image and letters in reverse, for no. 7069A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Wynnstay Theatre.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theater, Traffic signs & signals, and Goats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Wynnstay theatre] [art original].
3.
- Published / Created:
- [17--?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 8 Box D155
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Copy of a seventeenth-century engraved portrait of William Somner, an antiquarian scholar and author. The portait is enclosed in an oval revealing an unfinished scrollwork pattern
- Alternative Title:
- Mr. Somner
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., An unfinished copy of a 1693 engraving by Michael Burghers., On verso is another drawing: Effigies Gulielmi Bagwell : aetat. 66 ano. Dom. 1659., Two drawings on one sheet, recto and verso., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Somner, William, 1598-1669
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [William Somner] [art original].
4.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1798?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings R79 no. 5 Box D145
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A light infrantryman dressed in full uniform executes a drill with his flintlock. The caption from the published plate reads: ... the right hand is brought sharp to seize the flintlock at the top of the left shoulder keeping the body square & elbows close
- Description:
- Title from print based on this drawing and later published in a volme by Rowlandson. and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Soldiers, British, Military uniforms, and Rifles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Westminster Lt. Infantry no. 19 order arms 1st motion] [art original].
5.
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1772?]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 20 Copy 7
- Collection Title:
- No.1, opposite page 22. Miscellaneous antiquities, or A collection of curious papers ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A drawing of a mounted knight in full armor facing right; his horse, a caparison over its head and hindquarters, is rearing. The banner above the design is blank
- Description:
- Title from local catalog card., Artist unidentified., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted opposite page 22 in no.1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Miscellaneous antiquities, or A collection of curious papers ... Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXII [1772].
- Subject (Topic):
- Knights and Horses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Warrior with armor] [art original].
6.
- Creator:
- Farington, Joseph, 1747-1821, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1793]
- Call Number:
- SH Views F226 no. 1+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the south side of Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham, Strawberry Hill, from across the lawn, with the Thames in the distance
- Description:
- Title devised by curator. and This design is attributed to J. Farington on the print entitled "Strawberry Hill" published by J. & J. Boydell in June 1793 and etched by J.C. Stadler.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Estates, and Buildings, structures, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [View of Strawberry Hill from the south] [art original].
7.
- Creator:
- Farington, Joseph, 1747-1821, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1793]
- Call Number:
- Drawings F226 no. 1 Box D205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of an oak tree in the left foreground, next to an urn at extreme right, looking at the view of Abingdon in the background, and the Carfax Conduit in the left middle distance
- Description:
- Title and date from Stadler aquatint after this drawing. and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nuneham Courtenay (England) and Abingdon (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Carfax Tower (Oxford, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [View of Carfax and Abingdon from Whiteheads Oak] [art original].
8.
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of various containers sitting on an ornate mantel or shelf. Possibly drawn from life at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham; alternatively, it could be a design drawing for the villa
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., With several pencil sketches of a man's arm on verso., and Formerly laid in at page 97 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Containers, Vases, Urns, and Mantels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Urns, jugs and vases] [art original].
9.
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1806]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 48 Box 5
- Collection Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of a Turkish sultan, possibly Selim I, Selim II, or Selim III; wearing an ornate kaftan and large turban; sitting on a horse that is facing left, the horse adorned with a decorated saddle, gold bridle, and other ornamentation
- Alternative Title:
- Sultan Selim
- Description:
- Title from local catalog card; alternative title inscribed in ink above image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., At top of sheet is a trimmed manuscript inscription in French, written in a different hand than the other inscription: [...?] tresiesmo empereur des Turcts[?]., Sheet numbered "7" in ink in lower left corner., Formerly laid in at page 162 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 to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Turkey.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sultans
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Turkish sultan on his horse] [art original].
10.
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1788]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 22 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing showing Horace Walpole without a wig, on the left, facing the viewer, with a letter in hand; the caption under this image reads "after breakfast & in his study." In the center, Walpole with his wig and still with a letter in hand, his other arm bent and raised; the caption under this image reads "Before dinner, when drest, in the cabinet." The third image of Walpole, on the right, shows only his back, shoulders hunched and bent forward; the caption under this image reads "After dinner, & in the gallery."
- Alternative Title:
- Horace at three times a day
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Date assigned by previous owner., and John Carter (1748-1817), British draughtsman and antiquary.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Three sketches of Horace Walpole in 1788] [art original].