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., 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.
Title devised by curator, based on pencil annotation "Earl of Ossory" at bottom of mounting sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 86a in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Subject (Name):
Upper Ossory, John Fitzpatrick, Earl of, 1745-1818,
Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
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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.
Volume 15, after page 44. A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Johan Rantzau
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on the presumed late-1790s assembly date for the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., Probably a copy of, or perhaps the original drawing for, a 1797 etching by G.P. Harding with the title: Johan Rantzau : Grand Mareschal de Danemarck, ob. 1565 ae. 73., and Bound in after page 44 in volume 15 of an extra-illustrated copy of James Granger's A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution.
Volume 1, opposite title page. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
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1
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still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Date of production based on Ottley's time at Winchester College, which ended by 1787 when he entered the Royal Academy Schools; see Oxford Dictionary of national biography, entry for William Young Ottley., and Mounted opposite title page in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Volume 3, after page 214. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
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1
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still image
Abstract:
Depiction of the monument to John Gay in Westminster Abbey; a sculptural bust of Gay, in profile to the right, sits in an oval and rests on a plinth supported by a cherub to the left, who drapes a cloth over the right side of the oval. An obelisk with ornaments is behind, all beneath an arch supported by columns. A memorial by Alexander Pope is inscribed on the plinth, and a dedication from the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry is inscribed at the bottom of the monument
Description:
Titled devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Possibly a design drawing for an engraving with the signatures "H. Gravelot delin." and "J. Scotin sculp." and the publication line "Publish'd Sep. 29, 1738, by J. & P. Knapton & T. Cox". This plate was issued as the frontispiece to: Fables. By the late Mr. Gay. Volume the second. London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738., and Mounted after page 214 (leaf numbered '108' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Page 190. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Trees and bench
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility and date written in ink on a separate sheet, mounted below drawing; alternative statement of responsibility "by Lady Beaclerc [sic]" written in pencil at top of image., and Mounted on page 190 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).