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