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1.
A rat catcher [graphic]

Creator:
Baldrey, John, 1758- printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 January 1789]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 70. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 17. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man, accompanied by two dogs, carries a cage of live rats in his right hand and in his left hand, a sharp, wooden stick on which dead rats are impaled
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate was engraved by either John Baldrey or his brother Joshua Kirby Baldrey., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 70 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Janry. 26th, 1789, by W. Dickinson, New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Pest control, Rats, Cages, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A rat catcher [graphic]

2.
A rat catcher [graphic]

Creator:
Baldrey, John, 1758- printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 January 1789]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 70. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 17. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man, accompanied by two dogs, carries a cage of live rats in his right hand and in his left hand, a sharp, wooden stick on which dead rats are impaled
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate was engraved by either John Baldrey or his brother Joshua Kirby Baldrey., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 17 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving, etching, and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 38.0 x 29.0 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Janry. 26th, 1789, by W. Dickinson, New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Pest control, Rats, Cages, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A rat catcher [graphic]

3.
[Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Scene V [graphic]

Creator:
Facius, Georg Sigmund, approximately 1750- printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 May 1789]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Romeo sitting on a couch on the left, taking hold of Juliet's hand, under an awning in a classical palace, with dancers playing tambourines in the background and a man talking to Tybalt, who grasps his sword angrily."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
'Shakspeare' in open letters etched below imprint. and Full title from British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Aqua fortis publish'd May 1st, 1789, by Jno. & Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & No. 59, Pall Mall, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Characters
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Scene V [graphic]

4.
[Winter's tale. Act IV. Scene III] [graphic]

Creator:
Fittler, James, 1758-1835, printmaker
Published / Created:
[6 February 1789]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 95
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Perdita, mistress of the feast, with flowers in her hair and holding a staff in her left hand, giving rosemary and rue to Polixenes, who sits under a large tree to left, wearing a plumed hat and shrouded in a cloak, looking up at her appreciatively, while Florizel, disguised as Doricles, ushers forward his love, a dog beside him to right, with other figures, including a man wearing a sheepskin jacket, kneeling with a basket of fruit to left, the shepherd standing behind Polixenes, a ribbon seller showing a ballad to two young women to right and dancers in the field beyond."--Brit. Mus. online catalogue
Description:
Title from published state., State with figures in outline only., 'Shakspeare' in open letters below imprint., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 6th, 1789, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Characters
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Winter's tale. Act IV. Scene III] [graphic]

5.
Miss Farren [graphic]

Creator:
Jones, John, 1745?-1797, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[31 March 1789]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait bust as Thalia on a ledge, turned in profile to right and wearing crown of leaves, her hair curled to her shoulders, oval design; after a sculpture by Anne Seymour Damer, from a series of engravings after her work."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Dedication etched below title: To the Countess of Aylesbury this engraving from the original bust executed in marble by the Honble. Mrs. Damer is most respectfully dedicated by her Ladyship's most devoted & most grateful servant, James Roberts., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 260 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., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on laid paper ; sheet 26.9 x 20.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, March 31, 1789, by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage, Oxford; and John Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, London
Subject (Name):
Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829,
Subject (Topic):
Sculpture
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Farren [graphic]

6.
Miss Farren [graphic]

Creator:
Jones, John, 1745?-1797, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[31 March 1789]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait bust as Thalia on a ledge, turned in profile to right and wearing crown of leaves, her hair curled to her shoulders, oval design; after a sculpture by Anne Seymour Damer, from a series of engravings after her work."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Dedication etched below title: To the Countess of Aylesbury this engraving from the original bust executed in marble by the Honble. Mrs. Damer is most respectfully dedicated by her Ladyship's most devoted & most grateful servant, James Roberts., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 200 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.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, March 31, 1789, by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage, Oxford; and John Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, London
Subject (Name):
Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829,
Subject (Topic):
Sculpture
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Farren [graphic]

7.
Mr. Macklin & Mrs. Pope in the characters of Shylock & Portia [graphic]

Creator:
Nutter, William, 1754-1802, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1789?]
Call Number:
789.00.00.75++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The courtroom scene from Act 4, Scene 1 of Merchant of Venice when Portia reminds Shylock that the bond only allows him a pound of flesh, and makes no allowances for blood. Shylock, standing with a knife in his right hand and scales in his right, registers the disappointment and shock in his expression as he stands before Portia disguised as Balthasar, holding the bond. They are flanked by Antonio and Bassanio. In the background, the judge sits at his bench, his finger to his forehead. Below the title, Portia's lines: Have by some surgeon, Shylock, on your charge to stop his wounds lest he should bleed to death. Followed by Shylock's lines: Is it so nominated in the bond?
Alternative Title:
Mr. Macklin and Mrs. Pope in the characters of Shylock and Portia
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Date based on last performance date of Macklin and Pope in the The merchant of Venice.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Macklin, Charles, 1697?-1797,, Pope, Elizabeth, approximately 1740-1797,, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., and Shylock (Fictitious character)
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Courtrooms, Portia (Fictitious character), and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Macklin & Mrs. Pope in the characters of Shylock & Portia [graphic]

8.
Diana Oldboy [graphic]

Creator:
Pettit, John, fl. 1780-1790 , printmaker
Published / Created:
June 26, 1789.
Call Number:
789.06.26.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of verse below title: The bloom of op'ning flowers, unsullied beauty ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotation from Nicholas Rowe -- Young women -- Furniture: sofas.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Wm. Holland, Garrick's Richard, No. 50 Oxford Street
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Diana Oldboy [graphic]

9.
Mrs. Siddons, old Kemble and Henderson rehearsing in the Green Room [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1789]
Call Number:
789.00.00.03 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Actors -- Actresses -- Rehearsals -- Allusion to the Green Room -- Roger Kemble.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henderson, John, 1747-1785 and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Siddons, old Kemble and Henderson rehearsing in the Green Room [graphic]

10.
Henry Bunbury Esqr. [graphic]

Creator:
Ryder, Thomas, 1746-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 April 1789]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 1. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Lawrence; seated three-quarter length slightly to left in an oval, looking to the right, holding a sheet of figures across his lap inscribed 'Long Minuet', completing the drawing with a pencil in his right hand, which rests on a table at left; pilllar and trees behind"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 1 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; oval image 32.1 x 26.3 cm, on sheet 41.4 x 32.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 24 April 1789, by S. Watts, No. 28 Walcot-place, Lambeth & to be had at T. Ryders, No. 34, Great Titchfield St.
Subject (Name):
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811,
Subject (Topic):
Artists and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Henry Bunbury Esqr. [graphic]

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