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 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.
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.
"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.
