Drawn for publication in The New Yorker, 19 December 1936., Title derived from caption., Signed in charcoal below center., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title in pencil upper left., Date derived from related print, Print00126., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title written in ink on lower left corner., Signature and date not in Rowlandson's hand., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy available as in a pdf., Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Copiously extra-illustrated by Richard Bull with prints, drawings by John Carter, and Strawberry Hill Press detached pieces. Inlaid to folio probably before 1790, with letterpress pages and illustrations decorated with ruled edges, on fronts and backs of pages. Autograph memoranda by Walpole inserted. Coat of arms of Richard Bull painted inside cover. Formerly bound in russia, now in green morocco., and For further information, consult library staff.
Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy available as in a pdf., Bound in are 2 copies of: Harding, S. Epitaph on a canary bird., Russia by C. Lewis, rebacked; on spine: Walpole's Villa. Extra-illustrated with numerous plates and Strawberry Hill Press Detached pieces and original drawings by G.P. Harding and John Carter; ms. notes by Horace Walpole and Thomas Kirgate; name, perhaps S. Boyce, partially erased on the t.p. Probably from Kirgate's library. For further information, consult library staff., and Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 10.
Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy available as in a pdf., Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 9., Inscribed copy: "Bequeathed to Mary Dickenson by her valued friend the Earl of Orford." Numerous notes by Miss Anne Clark. Half calf, with worn marble boards., and For further information, consult library staff.
Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy available as in a pdf., Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., Extra-illustrated with 100 original drawings, chiefly by G.P. Harding, and numerous engravings. Copy of "The disaster" inserted; also inserted is a ms. account of the occasion for the poem, written in 1871 by Bawtree's grandson. Inlaid to folio, russia, rebacked., and Title page printed in red, black and blue, with Gothic style architectural border in watercolor and watercolor vignette resembling Mary Berry's bookplate with strawberries. Attributed to G.P. Harding. Printed 1797? Trimmed to: 29 x 22.5 cm.
Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy available as in a pdf., Horace Walpole's copiously extra-illustrated copy, folio (65 x 48 cm), with Walpole's arms stamped on covers and with notes by Walpole and Thomas Kirgate. Drawings or proofs before letter are substituted for many of the original plates. Plates wanting - entrance of Strawberry Hill (Drawings removed from framing?). See W.S. Lewis's notes., Items removed from volume are shelved in two solander boxes., Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., and For further information, consult library staff.
"A caricatured old man shown half-length to right, sipping from a small glass and his arms around a bottle, resting his elbows on a table, wearing tattered clothes and a hat over a scarf around his head; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the related print
Alternative Title:
Drap of whiskey
Description:
Title written in ink beneath image., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., Numbered "404" in ink in lower left., and For the related print, published by Bowles & Carver, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1738.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1795]
Call Number:
Print00056
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Souls and bodies, cured without loss of time!
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Signed by the artist in grey ink., Original work created: ca. 1795., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[before 1809]
Call Number:
Print00887
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Signed by the artist in ink at lower left., 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.
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Nannies (Children's nurses), Grandparents, Urination, Grandparent and child, and Child care
Watercolor of a beggar dressed in ragged, patched clothes, leaning on two crutches and wearing a bag slung across his body with the words "Scraps thankfully received" lettered upon it. He wears an eye patch on his right eye; a pipe sticks out of his hat
Alternative Title:
Scraps thankfully received
Description:
Title, a quote from Hamlet, written in ink beneath image., Signed with the artist's initials and dated in lower portion of image. Artist's full name "Wm. Carruthers Esqre." is written within wash-line border at bottom., and For a lithograph of this design in reverse, published March 1825 by E. Hull and Rowe & Walker, see Wellcome Collection reference: 664653i.
A collection of 75 wash drawings and watercolor landscape drawings, mostly unidentified and unsigned. Later annotations attribute the drawings to Mason, Gilpin and Holland, and identify specific places in the British Isles: Mason's Arched Rock on the Isle of Wright, Bolton Abbey; Gilpin's Windermere Lake; Summer House Aston Rectory,Yorkshire. Possibly drawings executed for Gilpin's series "Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year ..." or for his "Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of south Wales, &c." Also laid in is an engraving in blue ink on a paper doily etched with the title: Maths.Huelin & Ca. Malaga. Some drawings dated in pencil on mount, in a later hand, "1797".
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger. and Bound in three-quarters green morocco with marble boards and label on front cover stamped in gold tooling and gold lettering "Drawing"; with metal clasp.
Title in ink at lower left corner., 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.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
Folio 64 B39 813
Collection Title:
Page 152b. Magna Britannia.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title inscribed in gold paint within lower border; remainder of title written beneath border., Signed by the artist in gold paint in lower right., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 152b in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Subject (Name):
Warwick, Anne Dudley, Countess of, 1548 or 1549-1604, and Woburn Abbey.
Volume 1, opposite page 20. Some account of London.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Archbishop Chichele, 1437
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath drawing, on mounting sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted opposite page 20 in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Pennant, T. Some account of London. London : Printed for R. Faulder, 1793.
Page 365. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of the suit of armor, shown in an arched niche with a pike and shield, that Horace Walpole believed to be of Francis I, King of France
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Artist "E.B." identified as E. Bell in local card catalog record., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., Mounted with a wood-engraved image of the staircase at Strawberry Hill, where the suit of armor was kept., and Mounted on page 365 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Page 243. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satirical coat of arms, engraved heraldically, with cards, dice, Earls coronet (Lord Darlington) shaking a dice-box. The arms are encircled by a claret bottle ticker, by way of order
Alternative Title:
Cog it amor nummi and White's Club coat of arms
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image; the motto "Cog it amor nummi" is written within a banner at bottom of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Copy of a drawing by Richard Edgcumbe, designed along with George Selwyn, George Williams, and Horace Walpole, that was produced in 1756 at Strawberry Hill. The original drawing was sold in lot 12 of the 22nd day of the Strawberry Hill Sale in 1842., Date of production based on death date of T. Crofton Croker, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., For an engraving after the original drawing, see no. 3350 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Tipped in at page 243 in T. Crofton Croker's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill., and With a clipping, mounted in upper right corner of sheet, that describes a portfolio of prints and drawings from Strawberry Hill; the clipping is annotated "See 22d day, lot 10" in ink at top.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London
Subject (Name):
White's Club (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Men, Societies and clubs, Playing cards, and Coats of arms
Volume 2, opposite page 198. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
John Bannister (as Whiskerandos in 'The critic')
Description:
Title written in pencil in lower right corner. Alternative title from note in ink on mounting sheet: John Bannister (as Whiskerandos in 'The Critic')., Signed and dated by the artist in pencil., Possibly the original design for an engraving by R. Smith that was published by John Cawthorn in 1806; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1933,1014.421. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 116. For a brief mention of De Wilde's portrait of Bannister as Whiskerandos, and the engraving after it by Smith, see: A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1600-1800, v.1, pages 272-3., and Mounted opposite page 198 (leaf numbered '9' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Bannister, John, 1760-1836,
Benjamin Holbrook, shown full-length in profile, walking to the left, holding with a long white staff in his right hand, clutching two memorandum books in his left hand, heading towards Fleet Market, with the west front of St. Paul’s Cathedral visible in the background. His eyes being closed and the presence of the staff indicate his blindness, and the patched elbow of his three-quarter-length coat his poverty
Description:
Title from ink inscription in lower left portion of image., Signed with the artist's initials and dated in lower right corner., Numbered "25" in top center., For the related print, entitled "Ben Holbrook, the walking stationer" and published 16 July 1783 by William Wells, see Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 542, no. 1., and Mounted with narrow paper mount.
Subject (Name):
Holbrook, Benjamin, active 1783, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Peddlers, Blind persons, Staffs (Sticks), and Stationery
Portrait of Queen Caroline seated on a red armchair wearing a black dress with frilled collar and a black feather hat
Description:
Title written in ink below image., 'P. Contencin’ is possibly Peter Contencin, 1760-1829, born in Islington and married to Elizabeth Leekey, 1760-1805., and Paper watermarked 'Weatherley & Lane 1818'.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,
Title in ink below image., Signed by the artist., Below the title, written in ink, "Chelsea Hospital, the grand national asylum for decayed and maimed Soldiers, it was b[egun] by Charles II, carried on by James II, and completed by William III.", and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Geographic):
Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England), and Great Britain.
Signed, titled, and dated, in pencil. and This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records in ongoing.
Subject (Geographic):
Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands).
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Military, World War, 1939-1945, and Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 144d. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled and signed by the artist below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Bound in as page 144d in volume 2 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Subject (Name):
Olonne, Catherine-Henriette d’Angennes de la Trémoille-Royan, comtesse d’, 1634-1714, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Connecticut hospital for the insane. Main building
Description:
Title in ink below image, Signed within drawing at lower right., Date of production based on date Shew Hall (depicted) was built., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals --, Connecticut Valley Hospital, and Mental institutions
Title from item., Full caption: Court Physician and Apothecary. Pages. The Closet Keeper. Private Secretaries to the Queen and Albert., Date of production supplied by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters; Politics, British; Apothecaries.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901. and Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861.
Subject (Topic):
Enema, Physicians, Pharmacists, Writing materials, Mortars & pestles, Toilets, and Politics and government
Title written below image., Artist's initials in ink at lower left., John Leech in pencil verso., Date of production based on artist's death date., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Half-length portrait in profile facing left, of Dennis Collins, who was convicted of high treason and sentenced to drawing and quartering for throwing stones at George IV at Epsom Races, 23 June 1832. He was ultimately transported instead
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned and undated., By an unidentified artist in the style of Hippolyte Lecomte., Date of production based on style of artwork., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and In ink "160".
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned and undated., By an unidentified artist in the style of Hippolyte Lecomte., Date of production based on style of artwork., In ink "158"., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[before 1809]
Call Number:
Print10037
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title in black ink centered below image., Artist signature in black ink lower left margin., Date derived from artist's death date., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Album of watercolor drawings depicting exotic animals, copied by the artist Ann Rich from the first few parts of the Naturalist’s Pocket Magazine (London, 1798-1802).
Description:
Title from manuscript text on first leaf., Each drawing executed on its own sheet, with a caption written in ink above; bound in contemporary plain paper wrappers., and For further information, consult library staff.
Volume 1, page 5. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in ink at top of image., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 5 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.
Volume 1, page 5. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in ink at top of image., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 5 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.
Volume 1, page 17. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Elizabeth Gray, Queen of Edward IV and Elizabeth Grey, Queen of Edward IV
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 17 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):
England.
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492,
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
Folio 64 B39 813
Collection Title:
Page 152d. Magna Britannia.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title inscribed in gold paint within a piece of the bottom border that has been trimmed from sheet and mounted below portrait; remainder of title written beneath border, on that same detached piece of the sheet., Signed by the artist in gold paint in lower left; first initial of signature was lost when most of the border was trimmed away., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 152d in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Subject (Name):
Russell of Thornhaugh, Elizabeth Russell, Baroness, 1562-1611, and Woburn Abbey.
Title written in watercolor at bottom of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 87 in an album containing material relating to Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, with the spine title: Vauxhall miscellany.
Title in pencil upper right., Signed by the artist., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Page 201. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of a Gothic-style tower framed by trees, with the edge of a separate structure with arched windows visible on the left; a pedestal is seen on the lawn to the right. A woman holding a parasol walks on the path leading to the tower
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Artist "W.C.S." is unidentified., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., and Mounted on page 201 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Title from item., Unsigned and undated., Date derived from series date., Artist supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., Caption below title: "I am worried when I leave prison - will I be able to look normal enough to get a job." Sue HIV positive, in prison under "3 strikes you are out law"., Part of "Through Her Own Eyes," a series focusing on the plight of HIV positive female prisoners., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
HIV infections, Women prisoners, Drug abuse, Women, Prisons, and Anxiety
A portrait of Ferdinando Francesco d'Avalos, marchese di Pescara; bust length, head in profile to the left; with a long beard; wearing a helmet with a white feather on top
Description:
Title inscribed below image, in pencil in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly mounted with one other drawing on page 79 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Subject (Name):
Pescara, Ferdinando Francesco d'Avalos, marchese di, 1489-1525,
Title from pencil annotation on verso of matte, perhaps in the artist's hand; note is signed "S. Owen" below., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of drawing; final digits of date are mostly illegible, but a similar drawing by Owen in the same volume is clearly dated "1822"., and Laid in volume 2 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
Title from pencil annotation on verso of matte, perhaps in the artist's hand; note is signed "S. Owen" below., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of drawing., and Laid in volume 2 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
Folio 64 B39 813
Collection Title:
Page 152g. Magna Britannia.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Francis Russell, afterwards fourth Earl of Bedford
Description:
Title inscribed in gold paint within lower border; remainder of title written beneath border., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 152g in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Signed and dated, lower right, and titled in pencil below image., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., Part of "Through Her Own Eyes," a series focusing on the plight of HIV positive female prisoners., and This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
HIV infections, AIDS (Disease)., Women prisoners, and Drug addicts
"German Prisoners #208 P.O.W. Camp Ste. Helene Constantine" in black ink., Signed: "M. Siporin" in black ink., and Verso: Stamp "Property of War Dept, Rejected by War Dept Art Committee." "L.10.21.45" in pencil. "Mr. Reeves Lewenthal, Associated American Artists, 711 5th Avenue, New York, N.Y." in pencil.
Subject (Topic):
Prisoners of war, Hygiene, and World War, 1939-1945
Volume 1, page 7. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Harold
Description:
Title written in ink at top of image., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 7 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.
A man on horseback struggles to maintain control of his horse as it rears its hind legs, sending a boy scrambling away in the foreground on the right. In the background, another man looks on and grins at the prank he has played with his stick in the horse's tail; he stands in front of a building (an inn?) with a sign hanging above the entrance
Alternative Title:
Boots gets his revenge
Description:
Title from inscription., Attribution to Bunbury from inscription on verso, which notes that the drawing was presented to Lord Harrington., Two line inscription in ink across lower margin: Hard hearted Grower gives poor Boots his due, Or Boots at posting has a Rig for you - Anon., and Probably the original design for a print entitled "Tricks upon travellers," an illustration to Annals of horsemanship (London : W. Dickinson, 1791).
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Kicking, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
Title written in ink below image., Date of production based Queen Adelaide's succession date and artist's date of death., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and The artist was an arsonist, but was found not guilty on grounds of insanity and was a patient in Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England).
Subject (Name):
Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain 1792-1849,
Page 705. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink on a separate sheet mounted below drawing., Artist "E.B." identified as E. Bell in local card catalog record; artist "A.V. is unidentified., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., and Mounted on page 705 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
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
An old officer in uniform with a wrinkled face and carbuncles looks lustfully at a pretty young woman as they walk together on a path, his hand grasping hers
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Attributed to Rowlandson., and Date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Lust, Older people, Young adults, and Women
Title in black ink inscribed below image., Signed by the artist., Date of production based on artist's death date., Full caption reads, "-- Ils m'font rire avec leurs carabines de precision! V'lá t'ime arme de précision, on ne manque jamais le but avec ça!!, This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters.
Page 69. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Interior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842. Men and women stand or sit on benches around a long table; auctioneer George Robins, surrounded by framed pictures, conducts the auction from a podium at the far end of the room
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image, on mounting sheet., Unsigned; attribution to E. Bell from local card catalog record., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., Mounted with a newspaper clipping about the sale, which has the heading "Sale at Strawberry-Hill"., and Mounted on page 69 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Subject (Name):
Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title written in pencil beneath drawing, at bottom of mounting sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted opposite page 82 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Watercolor drawing of a bas-relief with decorative frame by Diana Beauclerk, one of two that were kept by Horace Walpole in the Breakfast Room at Strawberry Hill. The figure in wax of two boys is shown at center; the surrounding frame houses eight cameos interspersed with images of bows and draped garland
Description:
Title from note in ink in Horace Walpole's hand on mounting page below image., Statement of responsibility written in ink in lower left corner of sheet, in Horace Walpole's hand., Additionally annotated "Not so broad" by Horace Walpole in lower right corner of sheet., and Mounted on page 49 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.
Volume 1, page 33. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Lord Fortescue
Description:
Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 33 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.
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 standing man, facing left with his arms out in a gesture. He wears a red coat with gold embroidery and red breeches; his white wig is tied at the bottom with a large black bow. Probably a depiction of an actor performing in the comedy La coupe enchantée
Description:
Title written below image., 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 two men standing and conversing, the man on the left leaning in close and resting his left hand on the shoulder of the man on the right, his right hand raised with index finger pointing. The man on the right stands with his hands clasped in front, his head turned toward the other man. Both men wear loose fitting coats and breeches. Probably a depiction of actors performing the opéra bouffon Les deux avares ("The two misers").
Description:
Title written below image., 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.
Subject (Name):
Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste, 1741-1813.
Subject (Topic):
Theatrical productions, Operas & operettas, and Actors
Title written below image., Signed by the artist at lower right., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Label verso: "Artist: Mt. Sgt Vic P. Donahue, Home Address: 6354 Evans St. Omaha, Nebr, Where Executed: Cape Gloucester."
Subject (Topic):
Malaria, Quinacrine, Soldiers, Medicines, and Military medicine
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1812]
Call Number:
Folio 64 B39 813
Collection Title:
Page 152f. Magna Britannia.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath drawing, on mounting sheet., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right., and Mounted on page 152f in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings H263 no. 7 Box D125
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Lucy Walter, turned slightly left and looking at the viewer; wearing a pearl necklace, pearl earings, and a blue gown adorned with strings of pearls
Description:
Titled by the artist within lower border., Signed in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Date of production supplied by cataloger, based on the dates of similar drawings by G.P. Harding at The Lewis Walpole Library., Note in pencil beneath lower border: From the miniature at Strawberry Hill., Drawn after the miniature owned by Horace Walpole and kept in his Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels at Strawberry Hill. Walpole believed the miniature to have been painted by Samuel Cooper, but it has since been reattributed to Nicholas Dixon; see Christie's sale catalogue "Fine miniatures, enamels and object of art and vertu", 6 July 1965, lot 36., and A print entitled "Lucy Barlow alias Waters", published by Harding's father Sylvester in 1802 for The biographical mirrour, was probably engraved from this drawing; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Contents H263 no. 16.
Subject (Name):
Walter, Lucy, 1630?-1658, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title written in pencil beneath drawing, on mounting sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 108a in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Subject (Geographic):
Bedfordshire (England)
Subject (Name):
Luton Hoo (England),
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Estates
Title written in pencil beneath drawing, on mounting sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger, based on the 1843 date of the depicted fire at Luton Hoo., and Mounted on page 108b in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Subject (Geographic):
Bedfordshire (England)
Subject (Name):
Luton Hoo (England),
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, Estates, and Fires
A well-dressed man admires his teeth in a hand mirror. In front of him is an open package marked "National Health".
Description:
In ink at upper right margin, "Meet yourself at the Doctor.", "Ronald Searle 77 Bedford Gardens London W8" in ink on verso., Date of production based on artist's death date., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
National health insurance, Dentures, and Packaging
Title derived from caption., Signed and dated, lower left: Sue Coe 06., Place of production derived from artist's place of residence., Caption below image: Mary Ann "I went crazy when they told me I was HIV positive" husband could have been on the down low -- infected from husband, not a drug user., Part of "Through Her Own Eyes," a series focusing on the plight of HIV positive female prisoners., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
AIDS (Disease), HIV infections, Women prisoners, Prison guards, Women, Birds, Cells (Rooms & spaces), and Crying
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned and undated., Date of production based on style of artwork., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and In ink (over pencil) "273".
A watercolor sketch of two rotund monks in front of a entrance to monastery in a lane within gate and wall surround. One attends closely to a young lady with two baskets on her arms; the other reads, lounging on a bench with his one foot raised
Description:
Title from note in ink in lower right corner., Unsigned; attributed to Rowlandson by Andrew Clayton-Payne, author of a catalog of Rowlandson. Similar in theme (and in architecture) to signed watercolors at the Yale Center for British Art., and With dealer's notes in pencil on verso.
Subject (Topic):
Courtyards, Lust, Monasteries, Monks, Obesity, and Reading
An unfinished sketch for the engraving which appeared in the November 1845 issue of "George Cruikshank's Table-book," illustrating a brief article on railroad speculation by the periodical's editor, Gilbert Abbott a Beckett. John Bull is beset by lilliputian tormentors who are removing all his cash, clothing, and possessions, beneath clouds of steam and a clanging bell
Alternative Title:
Anticipated effects of the railway calls
Description:
Title from pencil annotation below image, in the artist's hand., Text above image: George Cruikshank's "Table Book"., and With additional pencil drawings and artist’s notes in the margins.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Auctions, Fictitious characters, Money, and Railroads
A collection of 74 from a total of 139 drawings of plants with insects by Thomas Robins, all described in a 19-page catalogue in the artist's hand. The drawings are numbered in pencil [by a later owner?] on the verso, and in a few instances on the recto. For the catalogue Robins created five columns on each page in which he entered for each drawing the Linnaean name, the English name, the class, and the order as well as a list of the insects that appear in the image
Alternative Title:
Paintings of exotic plants and insects
Description:
Title from accompanying catalogue in artist's hand., Artist identified and suggested dates for the collection from Andrew Edmunds of London. See: The flower paintings of Thomas Robins the Younger / edited by John Anthony Robins. Poole Dorset : Published by John Robins, [1999], p. 86., Accompanied by a catalogue in the hand of the artist, listing 39 drawings numbered and identified on 19 unnumbered pages followed by 13 blank leaves. The catalogue with marble wrappers is titled on cover: A catalogue of paintings of exotic plants & insects., The Lewis Walpole Library holds 64 of the 139 drawings; the library lacks nos. 5, 7-9, 11, 13-14, 17, 19, 25-27, 29-30, 33-36, 38-40, 42-45, 47, 49-50, 55-56, 58-61, 64-65, 67, 69-70, 72, 74-75, 78-80, 82, 84, 86, 88-92, 95, 97-98, 110, 115, 118-120, 124, 126, 128, and 134., and Housed in seven solander boxes. The catalogue is housed in Box 1.
Title in pencil upper left. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Page 1. List of pieces printed at Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in pencil below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger, based on that of the manuscript volume in which this drawing is found., Sheet trimmed to the edges of the vignette drawing., and Mounted on page 1 in a volume with the manuscript title: List of pieces printed at Strawberry Hill, taken from Baker's list.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[before 1809]
Call Number:
Print00873
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Signed by the artist in ink at lower right., 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.
Subject (Topic):
Wounds & injuries, Medical aspects of war, Physicians, and Hypochondria
The 23 views and 35 photographs were made on an 1864 exploring expedition of Vancouver Island.
Description:
Frederick Whymper, artist, served on the 1864 Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition initiated by Gov. Kennedy and the Western Union Telegraph Co.'s expedition to Alaska and Siberia., Stored in 1 box., and This collection formerly belonged to Robert Brown, who commanded the Vancouver expedition. It was acquired from Prof. Rudmore-Brown of Trinity College, Dublin and given to the library by William Robertson Coe.
Subject (Geographic):
Vancouver Island (B.C.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition and Whymper, Frederick
Title written in pencil beneath drawing, at bottom of mounting sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted opposite page 52 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1845?]
Call Number:
Folio 64 B39 813
Collection Title:
Page 152c. Magna Britannia.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title inscribed in gold paint within lower border; remainder of title written beneath border., Attribution to G.P. Harding based on similar drawings with his signature that are mounted in the same volume., Possibly the original drawing for the engraving by William Greatbach that was published in 1845; cf. National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D39940., and Mounted on page 152c in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Subject (Name):
Russell of Thornhaugh, William Russell, Baron, -1613, and Woburn Abbey.
Album of watercolors depicting Belém Castle on the river Tagus, Coimbra and Sabugal, Portugal, the Battle of Bussaco, the march to Badajoz, the crossing at Villa Velha, the Siege of Badajoz, crossing the Bridge of Alcántara, Spain, and the Pyrenees taken from Arbonne in France. Captions carry detailed descriptions of battles and countryside.
Alternative Title:
Sketches in the peninsula during the war from 1812 to 1814
Description:
Gift of William Ireland Starr.
Subject (Geographic):
Badajoz (Spain)--History--Siege, 1812, Coimbra (Portugal)--Pictorial works, and Tagus River (Spain and Portugal)--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Bussaco, Battle of, Portugal, 1810--Pictorial works, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Pictorial works, Peninsular War, 1807-1814--Spain, and Torre de Belém (Lisbon, Portugal)--Pictorial works
View of the exterior of the Skinners' Hall, Dowgate Hill, London; Ionic pillasters across front with central pediment above, coat of arms in center of pediment; wrought iron fence at street level, with gates and lamp posts in front of the two visible doors
Description:
Titled in watercolor beneath image., Unsigned; artist identified., Approximate date supplied by cataloger, based on the 1849 date of the latest printed item inserted as an extra-illustration alongside this drawing., and Bound in after page 356 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
View of the real-life Castle of Otranto in Italy. The gray structure is seen in the middle distance beyond a low stone wall, one branch of which extends towards the viewer in the right foreground. Blue-tinted mountains are visible in the far distance on either side of the castle. A green lawn occupies the rest of the foreground; a blue sky completes the top half of the image
Description:
Title from contemporary note in ink on strip of paper pasted on facing page of volume., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on death date of Richard Bull, who owned the volume in which this drawing is mounted., Another version of this drawing, presumably by John Carter, was also owned by Richard Bull. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 11., and Mounted before title page in Richard Bull's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. London : Printed for Tho. Lownds in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXV [1765].
Volume 3, after page 154. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled and dated by the artist at bottom of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., and Mounted after page 154 (leaf numbered '2' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
A watercolor drawing of a scene in Westminster Hall with three judges presiding over a crowded courtroom
Alternative Title:
Lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall and Peep into the Court of Kings Bench
Description:
Title "A peep into the Court of Kings Bench" written in lower margin but scored through; a new title "Term time or The lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall" is written below in the same hand., Signed by the artist in lower right corner of image., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., and Numbered "557" beneath lower left corner of image.
Subject (Name):
Westminster Hall (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Courtrooms, Judicial proceedings, Lawyers, Judges, and Juries
Title inscribed in ink at lower left., John Thurtell was a notorious murderer who, as part of his sentence, was dissected the day after he was hung., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Physicians, Dissections, and Thurtell, John, 1794-1824
Frontispiece. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Arms and quarterings of Sir Robert Walpole, Knight of the Garter
Description:
Title from note above image, in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted., With a numbered list of the families whose arms are represented, written on either side of image., and Mounted as the frontispiece in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., Walpole, Catherine, Lady, 1681 or 1682-1737., and Walpole family.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[before 1809]
Call Number:
Print00232
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
The dry gripes!!
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Signed by the artist in grey ink., 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.
A couple, the lady seated with her back to her husband, turns with knit-brow to look over her shoulder at her husband who looks at her with anger or disgust and distain
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath image., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., Numbered "407" in ink in lower left., and For a related mezzotint, published by Bowles & Carver, see no. 8921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1797]
Call Number:
Print00756
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Signed by the artist in ink at lower left., 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.
Subject (Topic):
Drugs, Prescribing, Physicians, Obesity, Alcoholism, and Gluttony
Page 186. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and date from contemporary note in ink on a separate sheet, mounted below drawing., Unsigned; artist unidentified., and Mounted on page 186 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).
A couple holding hands lean toward each other as they gaze into one another's eyes with affection
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath image., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., Numbered "406" in ink in lower left., and For a related mezzotint, published by Bowles & Carver, see no. 8920 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7.
Title in ink at bottom center. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Human skeleton, Alcoholism, Gluttony, and Death (Personification).
Signed drawing depicting the ghost of Christmas Yet To Come pointing down at a slab with Ebenezer Scrooge's name on it. Scrooge is kneeling with his face buried in his hands.
Description:
Bound in a purple levant morocco large quarto folder, gilt tooled and lined with purple silk., Ex libris A. Edward Newton. Ex libris Charles J. Rosenbloom. Bequest of Charles J. Rosenbloom, 1974., and John Leech illustrated the first edition of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (London, 1843).
Volume 1, page 41. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Monument for Sir Robert de Hungerford
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., Inscription below title, in a different hand: This monumental inscription is cutt in brass, and sett in black marble, fixt into the south wall of a small chapple joyning to the church of Hungerford. Comm. Berks., Inscription at bottom of sheet: There formerly lay under it, the figure of a man in armour cross legg'd, but that is remov'd into another part of the church and is much defaced., and Mounted on page 41 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 (Name):
Hungerford, Robert Hungerford, Baron, approximately 1429-1464. and Salisbury Cathedral.
Volume 3, after page 162. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled and dated by the artist in ink, in lower right corner., Attribution to Daniel Orme from note on verso: I hereby certify this to be a sketch by my late father Daniel Orme of which I have presented to Mr. Ch. Jenkins. [signed] M.A. Holmes[?] late M.A. Orme., and Mounted after page 162 (leaf numbered '25' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Volume 3, after page 162. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled and dated by the artist in ink, in lower right corner., Attribution to Daniel Orme from note on verso: I hereby certify this to be a sketch by my late father Daniel Orme of which I have presented to Mr. Ch. Jenkins. [signed] M.A. Holmes[?] late M.A. Orme., and Mounted after page 162 (leaf numbered '25' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Title written below image., Artist's initials on lower left, and on right, [anchor]--G. Cruikshank fect., Date based on original work created 1833., Pubd. by Thos McLean, 26 Haymarket, Augt. 1st, 1835 [scored through]., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"A man in ragged but quasi-fashionable dress rides (right to left) an ass through a river which flows past a steep mountain. The animal jibs, with ears set back; the rider raises a whip in each hand. He wears, and uses, three pairs of spurs, and attached to his shoulders and to the ass is a monstrous pile of bladders inscribed respectively 'Repartee', 'Nonsensical Verses', 'Catastrophe', 'Sentiment', 'Blasphemies', 'Puns', 'Duels', 'Double Entendres', 'Metaphors', 'Ghosts', 'Melting Speeches', 'Squibs', 'Dialogue', 'Daggers Poisons'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print engraved after this drawing and A rough pencil sketch of the same design but lacking much of the detail on the verso
Alternative Title:
Dramatic author foiled in his endeavor to ascend Parnassus
Description:
Title written below image, in the artist's hand., Unsigned; artist attribution from statement of responsiblity "Giles Grinagain in. et f." present on the print made after this drawing., Date surmised from that of the print based on this drawing., Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue., and Original design for a print first published by S. Howitt in 1802 and then reissued by S.W. Fores in 1804. Changes in the printed version include the replacement of the word "endeavor" in the title with "attempt," and the elimination of the speech bubble emanating from the man. Cf. No. 10334 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8.
Page 457. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of the shrine designed by Pietro Cavallini, brought to the chapel at Strawberry Hill from Rome in 1768. A cross sits on the floor beneath the shrine, between the twisted columns; an armored glove and dagger are seen in the foreground, while other arms and armor hang on the walls in the background
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Artist "E.B." identified as E. Bell in local card catalog record., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., and Mounted on page 457 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Page 299. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of several items from Horace Walpole's collection that were sold at the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842. Sitting on a table draped in a red tablecloth, surrounded by other items, is the silver bell that was once attributed to Benvenuto Cellini. Shields, urns, a book, a decorated hunting horn, and an ornate dagger occupy the floor in front of the table. To the right are several pieces of armor, on the floor beneath a stained glass window; wooden cases in the Gothic style are seen in the background
Alternative Title:
Silver bell and other curiosities and gems as seen in Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from contemporary note in ink, on a separate sheet mounted below image., Statement of responsibility written in ink on mounting sheet, beneath lower right corner or image. Artist "E.B." identified as E. Bell in local card catalog record., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., and Mounted on page 299 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Bells, Urns, Shields, Daggers & swords, Stained glass, and Windows
