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1. America! of wealth thou modern mine ... [graphic]

Creator:: Moore, James, active approximately 1761-1763, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1765]
Call Number:: 765.00.00.02.1+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Two native Americans wearing fronded head-dresses and armed with arrows, on a sea-shore, one kneeling on a rock with one hand propped on cones from a palm-tree, the other standing clothed in a goat's skin, gesturing out to left with an ingot in one hand; a crocodile on the sand, a European ship at sea and three figures gathered around a hammock set between palms under a canopy on rocks in the upper right; from a set of the four quarters of the world; republished state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from first line of verses engraved beneath image., Verses continue: ... what if by conquest we possess thy shore, thy savages reveng'd should less repine, since we're the slaves of thy corrupting ore., Second state, with altered imprint statement; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.570., See Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, volume 3, page 941 for mention of an earlier state of this series of four plates "Quarters of the World", "Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden Head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street"., One of a series of four allegorical prints, the others depicting Africa, Asia, and Europe., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge and with thin margins on the other three edges.
Publisher:: Printed for & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):: North America,
Subject (Topic):: Indigenous peoples, Headdresses, Arrows, Coastlines, Palms, Crocodiles, Ships, and Hammocks (Furniture)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > America! of wealth thou modern mine ... [graphic]

2. Barbara Countess of Coventry [graphic]

Creator:: Spicer, Henry, 1742 or 1743-1804, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1765 and 1771]
Call Number:: Folio 75 P839 800 v. 1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Portrait after Reynolds; three-quarter length to front, head turned in three-quarter profile to left, her left arm leaning resting on her robes, right hand holding her left wrist; clouds and pillar behind.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1833,0515.15., Mounted on leaf numbered 43 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Coventry, Barbara, Countess,
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Barbara Countess of Coventry [graphic]

3. Charles Saunders Esq. Vice Adml. of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's fleet & Lieutt. General of His Majesty's marine forces / [graphic]

Creator:: McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1760?]
Call Number:: 760.00.00.107+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of the imprint statement., and Questionable publication date based on entry in Goodwin.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: British
Subject (Name):: Saunders, Charles, Sir, ca.1713-1775,
Subject (Topic):: Military uniforms
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Charles Saunders Esq. Vice Adml. of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's fleet & Lieutt. General of His Majesty's marine forces / [graphic]

4. Lady Elizabeth Lee [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1765 and 1837]
Call Number:: Folio 75 P839 800 v. 3 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1095); seated whole-length to right in garden, eyes to front, wearing voluminous dress and resting on ermine cloak on stone slab at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image., Date of publication and artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Ii,3.79., Mounted on leaf numbered 7 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Lady Elizabeth Lee [graphic].

5. Lady Strafford [graphic]

Published / Created:: [approximately 1765]
Call Number:: Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1857); half-length to front, head turned in three-quarter profile to right, wearing a string of pearls in her hair, with a plait hanging over her left shoulder; a fur-trimmed cloak over her left arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.5096., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge with loss of imprint. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 103 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:: Sold by Ryland & Bryer & Co. at the Kings Arms in Cornhill
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Lady Strafford [graphic]

6. Lord Cardross [graphic]

Creator:: Finlayson, John, 1730-1776, printmaker
Published / Created:: publish'd according to act of Parliamant, Novr. 22d, 1765.
Call Number:: Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Volume 1, page 57. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 585); half-length turned slightly to right, head and eyes to left, in Van Dyck costume; pillar behind; state with publication line, before final alteration of title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., "Sold at the Golden Lamp in Berwick Street, price 5s."--Lower right corner of plate., Mounted on page 57 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and "Earl of Buchan" added in ink below title, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829,
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Lord Cardross [graphic]

7. Mirth and friendship [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1765?]
Call Number:: 765.00.00.58
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Reduced copy of no. 4505 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Social gatherings -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Tankards -- Smoking -- Wine bottle and glass., and Watermark: illegible name, partially trimmed.
Publisher:: Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street, London
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Mirth and friendship [graphic].

8. Miss Crieuse and her sister [graphic]

Creator:: Brookshaw, Richard, 1736- printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1765 and 1773]
Call Number:: Portraits C927 no. 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of Misses Crewe after Reynolds (Mannings 450); three-quarter length, standing, with Elizabeth on the right, holding a flower basket in one hand and embracing her sister, Emma, on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Miss Crewes and her sister
Description:: Title from text below image. and Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1840,0808.59.
Publisher:: Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhil
Subject (Name):: Crewe, Emma, and Hinchliffe, Elizabeth Crewe,
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Crieuse and her sister [graphic]

9. The Dutch chymist [graphic]

Creator:: Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1765?]
Call Number:: 765.00.00.03+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: In a chemist's workshop, a man sits at a table made of a slab of wood placed over a brick structure, as he mixs the contents of a pot placed on a burner. A large mortar with pestle and a couple of glass bottles stand next to the burner. To his left, a young man with a hat covering part of his face is reading aloud from a sheet of paper while a third man, in a tall hat, is looking over his shoulder
Alternative Title:: Dutch chemist
Description:: Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):: Chemists
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Dutch chymist [graphic]