A group of drawings that illustrate select scenes from Laurence Sterne's novel The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. The drawings vary in level of detail and completeness; one is a slight pencil sketch, two are more detailed drawings in pen and ink over pencil, and three are elaborate drawings in ink and wash. The drawings are bound in as either the frontispiece or before the frontispiece, one in each of the six volumes of the eighth edition of the work. Several of the compositions were later engraved, presumably from larger designs by Bunbury
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., The drawings are unsigned, and only one has a title written at the bottom., Bound in H.W. Bunbury's copy of: Sterne, L. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770., In slipcase., and With H.W. Bunbury's original drawings (cataloged separately) bound in; also with verses in unidentified hand on end-papers of v. 4.
Title devised by curator., Artist's initial and date in pencil on right., Verso: "Oh for the horns of the altar.", and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title devised by curator., Date based on artist's date of death, and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date of production based on sitter's death date. This portrait was completed shortly before Locke's death, according to a contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is a portrait of Mr. John Lock, author of the Letters on Toleration, the Essay on Human Understanding, on Coinage, & many other valuable pieces, sketch'd from a painting & afterwards (not long before his decease) finished up from the life, by George Vertue., One of eight portrait drawings that were probably among the works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. A volume of ca. 50 additional drawings from this collection, now bound in red morocco, has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others., and Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing.
Drawings H928 no. 1 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 7
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Portrait of Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned., Inscription ..., Ozias Humphry (1742-1810) was a British miniatures and portrait painter. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1791, and in 1792 he was appointed Portrait Painter in Crayons to the King. In 1797, he began to lose his vision almost completely. He died in London in 1810., and No. 5 in the Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library.
Drawings H928 no. 2 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 7
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave
Description:
Title devised by curator., Ozias Humphry (1742-1810) was a British miniatures and portrait painter. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1791, and in 1792 he was appointed Portrait Painter in Crayons to the King. In 1797, he began to lose his vision almost completely. He died in London in 1810., and No. 16 in the Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library.
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger, based on the date assigned to the scrapbook in which the drawing is found., and Mounted on leaf 42 in volume 1 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a man and woman, standing across from one another and apparently engaged in conversation. The man, standing on the left and facing right, gestures toward the woman with his left hand; he wears a blue jacket and breeches, has a holstered sword on his left hip, and holds a tricorne in his right hand. The woman, standing on the right and facing left, wears a purple and green dress and holds a fan(?) in her right hand. Possibly a depiction of a scene from a play
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist attribution from manuscript note on paper label mounted below the set of drawings: Drawn by Fesch., Place of production based on artist's main city of activity; date of production based on artist's death date., One of four small drawings of English and French comedians mounted together on one page. Horace Walpole presumably kept similar drawings by Fäsch in his bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 113 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.
Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a man, standing and turned towards the left. He wears a long white coat, open and unbuttoned, his blue waistcoat and breeches visible beneath. In his outstretched right hand is a tricorne; in his left hand, pulled in close to the hip, is a walking stick. Possibly a depiction of an actor in performance
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist attribution from manuscript note on paper label mounted below the set of drawings: Drawn by Fesch., Place of production based on artist's main city of activity; date of production based on artist's death date., One of four small drawings of English and French comedians mounted together on one page. Horace Walpole presumably kept similar drawings by Fäsch in his bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 113 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.
