SH Contents W218 no. 2 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 52
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1
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Horace Walpole's watercolor after Antoine Watteau's Fête Champêtre depicts two amorous couples being serenaded by a musician. Another young man lounges on a blanket, his back to the viewer, as he gazes at the one dancing couple. Another figure of a ...
Alternative Title:
Fête champêtre
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721
An album of watercolors assembled by the gentleman farmer and amateur artist John Tomes showing views of his manor house Weston Sands House and the surrounding countryside. Tomes recorded his estate from many angles and in all seasons as well as pictu...
Alternative Title:
Sketches by John Tomes, Weston Sands
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, based on dealer's description.
Subject (Geographic):
Warwickshire (England) and Isle of Wight (England)
Subject (Name):
Turner, J. M. W. 1775-1851 (Joseph Mallord William), and Windsor Castle,
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Castles & palaces, Abbeys, Ruins, Estates, and Rivers
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
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 ...
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
Volume 1, page 125. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
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1
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still image
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View of a large Gothic-style building in the middle distance, framed by trees and with low bushes in front. A groundskeeper and two cows seen on the lawn in front of the structure; a small boat is moored to the shore of the body of water in the foregr...
Volume 1, page 127. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
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1
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still image
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Interior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842. Several dozen men in top hats and some women sit or stand around a long table on the left; the auctioneer George Robins sits on a platform on the right, holdin...
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Volume 1, page 126. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
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1
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still image
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Exterior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842, with part of Horace Walpole's Gothic villa visible on the left
Volume 1, page 161. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
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1
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still image
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The auctioneer George Robins is shown full-length in profile to the left, sitting at a small table draped with a tablecloth, an inkwell and a goblet on the table in front of him. He sits on the 16th-century oak chair from Glastonbury Abbey, an item fr...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Auctioneers, Tables, Chairs, Writing materials, and Drinking vessels
Volume 1, page 124. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of a white Gothic-style tower framed by trees, with the edge of a separate structure with arched windows and a crenellated roof visible on the left. A pedestal is seen on the lawn to the right. Several groups of people walk on the path leading to...
Volume 3, page 192a. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
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1
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still image
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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. It sold in lot 77 on the nineteenth day of the 1842 Strawberry Hill Sale
Volume 3, page 248a. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
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1
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still image
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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 ...
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.
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Lust, Older people, Young adults, and Women
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.
Subject (Topic):
Courtyards, Lust, Monasteries, Monks, Obesity, and Reading
A portrait of the artist Henry William Bunbury shown in profile looking to the right, a sketchbook in his lap and a pencil in his right hand. He is wearing a hat with a broad brim and is seated in an arm chair
Alternative Title:
Artist Henry William Bunbury while sketching
Description:
Title written in brown ink in lower left, possibly in the artist's hand.
Two gentlemen wearing academic caps stand looking at tomb effigy in a side chapel of a church. The one man who has a large belly and is gesturing toward the tomb, bears some resemblance to Samuel Johnson. To the right, man confronts a woman who seems...
Description:
Titles devised by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Churches, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Academic costumes, Beggars, City & town life, Carriages & coaches, and Pedestrians
Three doctors stand together in discussion, wearing wigs and tailcoats. The man on the right holds a wine glass; bottles and additional glasses sit on a table behind him. In the background on the left the patient can be seen, lying in a canopy bed
Description:
Title and date supplied by curator.
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Discussion, Sick persons, and Canopy beds
A scene from Dante's 'Divine Comedy' showing Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, Count of Donoratico (c. 1220-1289), an Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander and his sons and grandchildren imprisoned in a dungeon. After Reynolds
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, from that of the original painting by Reynolds.
Subject (Geographic):
Italian.
Subject (Name):
Ugolino, della Gherardesca, conte di Donoratico, -1289,
Subject (Topic):
Capture & imprisonment, Dungeons, Political prisoners, and Children
An apothecary kneels at the feet of a pretty young woman, one hand on his breast, the other pointing to a cloth at his feet on which are spread a clyster-pipe, shears, pestle and mortar, a bottle, and a canister of "Love Pow[der?]". Behind them is a p...
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Courtship, Medical equipment & supplies, Mortars & pestles, Pianos, and Doors & doorways
A scene in a chamber with the end of canopy bed visible in the background, left. A woman in her undergarments, a candlestick in the foreground positioned suggestively between her legs, reaches out to cover her husband's one good eye as he walks throug...
A young woman presumably a prostitute, bare breasted and with a dejected look on her face, is being led up the steps of a building by a beadle or constable, her head bowed in shame. Her infant has been left in the arms of an older woman, stands at the...
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 re...
Alternative Title:
Paintings of exotic plants and insects
Description:
Title from accompanying catalogue in artist's hand.
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).
In the center, two laughing bacchanalian boys stand draped in grape vines, one holding an overflowing goblet. Two small designs on the top and right sides depict boat scenes. The design on the bottom shows two men walking behind a horse; the design on...
Collection of twelve 19th-century Anglo-Indian representations of traditional Indian clothing for various trades and stations of life, each captioned below with the subject's occupation. Included are two female subjects, 'My Ayah or Lady's Maid' and a...
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...
Description:
Title from ink inscription in lower left portion of image.
Subject (Name):
Holbrook, Benjamin, active 1783, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Peddlers, Blind persons, Staffs (Sticks), and Stationery
An album of illustrations by various artists, probably compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family. The album contains views of coastlines and ports including Port Eliot, home of Mordaunt friends the Eliots of Port Eliot, in the Parish of St. Germans,...
Description:
Charles Mordaunt (1771-1823), 8th Baronet, was a member of Parliament representing the constituency of Warwickshire. A Catholic and Whig, he married Marianne, daughter of William Holbech of Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire in 1807; the couple lived at W...
Volume 1, opposite page 102. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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1
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still image
Description:
Collective title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Dodd, James William, 1740?-1796, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, and Johnstone, John Henry, 1749-1828