Genre: Watercolors / Full Text Available: None / Subject (Topic): Dwellings

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Creator:: Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
Published / Created:: [1789]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3581 v.1
Collection Title:: Volume 1, page 69. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Milton's cottage at Chalfont
Description:: Title from ink annotation on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand., Statement of responsibility and date written beneath title on verso, in an unidentified hand., and Mounted on page 69 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Subject (Geographic):: Chalfont St. Giles (England)
Subject (Name):: Milton, John, 1608-1674
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > House near Chalfont in Buckinghamshire, whither Milton retired during the plague [art original]

Creator:: DeWint, Peter, 1784-1849, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1829 and 1835]
Call Number:: 75 D521 829
Image Count:: 12
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A series of eight, small watercolor drawings depicting castles and country houses in England and Wales. The views show: Brancepeth Castle near Durham; Enville Hall in Staffordshire; New Weir on the river Wye, Herefordshire; Hagley Hall, Worcestershire; Hereford Cathedral from across the river Wye; St Paul’s Walden Bury, Hertfordshire; Lumley Castle near Durham; and Chirk Castle near Wrexham, north Wales
Alternative Title:: Drawings by De Wint
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Peter DeWint., Date based on DeWint's visits to Wales between 1829 and 1835. See Oxford dictionary of national biography., Drawings are mounted an album of thirty-four unnumbered blank leaves; each drawing is captioned by the artist below in ink, some are numbered in pencil. Bound in nineteenth-century half black roan over marbled boards with the spine lettered in gilt ‘Drawings by De Wint’; marbled endpapers and edges; old bookseller’s description pasted at foot of first page., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):: England and Wales
Subject (Topic):: Cathedrals, Dwellings, Estates, and Castles & palaces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings of castles and scenes in England and Wales] [art original].

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
Published / Created:: [1830s?]
Call Number:: Drawings C889 no. 9 Box D115
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A gentleman leads a young woman and her mother (or chaperone) to the door of a carriage, held open by the coach driver who wears a top hat and a peculiar grin. In the background is a house or inn with a partially drawn figure (in ink) watching or emerging from the door. On the verso, pencil sketches of two men in top hats, and a smaller figure lightly sketched with a top hat in black ink
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Signed by the artist in lower left., Date from dealer's description., and On verso are later inscriptions in pencil.
Subject (Topic):: Young adults, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, and Dwellings
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Gentleman escorting a young woman to a waiting carriage] [art original] / Geo. Cruikshank