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1.
[Portrait of John Speed from an engraved frontispiece] [art original]

Creator:
Barber, Christopher, 1735 or 1736-1810, artist
Published / Created:
[1754]
Call Number:
Drawings B234 no. 1 Box D100
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of the head of John Speed after the frontispiece to his British Isles atlas Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (London, 1631 onwards); the plate also appeared in the other editions of his atlases).
Alternative Title:
Aet. M. viri clarissimi Joannis Speed Farndoniae nati in Comitatu Cestriae
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Speed, John, 1552?-1629.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of John Speed from an engraved frontispiece] [art original]

4.
Poems by James John Forbes Leith & Williamina Helen Stewart Forbes Leith of Whitehaugh, 1827 and

Creator:
Forbes Leith, Williamina Helen (Stewart).
Call Number:
Osborn d225
Image Count:
233
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 12 sentimental acrostic poems on the writer's marriage and family members, and 1 incomplete verse on maternal love. The acrostic on the phrase "to Colonel James John Forbes Leith, of Whitehaught. By W...
Description:
Binding: machine grain, with blind-stamped decoration. On spine in gilt: Poems.
Subject (Name):
Forbes Leith family., Forbes Leith, James John., Forbes Leith, Williamina Helen (Stewart)., Nightingale family., Nightingale, Augustus--Autograph., and Nightingale, Henry--Autograph.
Subject (Topic):
Acrostics, Children's drawings., English poetry--19th century, Sentimentalism in literature, Shorthand, and Women authors
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poems by James John Forbes Leith & Williamina Helen Stewart Forbes Leith of Whitehaugh, 1827 and later.

5.
Peace in India, or, The conquest of Seringapatnam [graphic].

Published / Created:
[18 November 1799]
Call Number:
799.11.18.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Ten hand-colored engravings, depicting scenes from the Battle of Seringapatnam, form the border of a writing sheet, one each along the upper and lower edges and four on either side. Illustrations include, at the top, a battle scene; portraits of the B...
Alternative Title:
Conquest of Seringapatnam
Description:
Title from head of sheet.
Publisher:
Published 18th Novr. 1799 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
India, India., Śrīraṅgapaṭṭaṇa., and Indian
Subject (Name):
Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799, and Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799
Subject (Topic):
Family, History, Campaigns & battles, Elephants, Generals, British, Soldiers, Sons, Indian, and Spouses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Peace in India, or, The conquest of Seringapatnam [graphic].

6.
Nemausus arbis conditor Kunegerha. [art original]

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, artist
Published / Created:
[17--?]
Call Number:
SH Contents W218 no. 4 Box 120
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two sketches of soldiers wearing helmets, one drawing on each side of a single sheet with the titles written below, one in Latin and the other in Greek
Alternative Title:
Kunegerha, Profile of a Roman soldier, and Profile of a Greek soldier
Description:
Title from item.
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Greek, and Roman
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Nemausus arbis conditor Kunegerha. [art original]

7.
Muster and History of Browlia

Published / Created:
circa 1899-1900
Call Number:
GEN MSS 571
Image Count:
61
Abstract:
Drawings of various complexity, presumably by a boy and for him by an adult, which depict figures and activities of fictitious nations on sheets of a ledger volume, circa 1899-1900. Drawings consist primarily of military figures, inhabitants, indigeno...
Description:
Although the entire scrapbook has been renumbered in pencil by the creator, several otherwise blank pages have not been digitized.
Subject (Topic):
Imaginary creatures, Imaginary languages, Imaginary places, Imaginary societies, and Imaginary wars and battles
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Muster and History of Browlia

8.
Harlequin and Mother Goose, or, The golden egg [graphic].

Published / Created:
[25 March 1807]
Call Number:
807.03.25.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A writing sheet illustrated with scenes from Thomas Dibdin’s pantomime, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on Boxing Day 1806 and a few months before this sheet was issued. There were at least twelve different scenes in Dibdin’s work, f...
Alternative Title:
Golden egg
Description:
Title etched at top of plate.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25, 1807, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841.
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Mother Goose, Actors, Fairy tales, Fools & jesters, Pantomimes, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Harlequin and Mother Goose, or, The golden egg [graphic].

9.
Gay's Fables [graphic].

Published / Created:
as the act directs, Novr. 17th, 1787.
Call Number:
787.11.17.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An engraved writing sheet illustrated with seven scenes from Gay’s Fables, each titled above and with rhyming couplet below. At head, and the largest scene, is ‘The Shepherd and the Philosopher’; six smaller scenes form the right and left borders belo...
Description:
Title engraved at top of plate, on either side of the image of "The shepherd and the philosopher."
Publisher:
Published by Robt. Sayer, map, chart & printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Fables
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Gay's Fables [graphic].