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2.
- Creator:
- Lysons, Samuel, 1763-1819, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1790]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 200. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text at top of image., Date from note in ink below plate mark, in Horace Walpole's hand: Scratched by Mr. S. Lysons with a diamond, 1790., and Mounted on page 200 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).
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Cirencester (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, structures, etc and Monuments & memorials
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cirencester Cross [graphic]
3.
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 March 1787]
- Call Number:
- 787.03.08.01+ Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 35. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Bishop Watson of Llandaff stands in profile to the right, his arms outstretched as if preaching. He stands under an archway formed by a retort, the furnace of which is behind him (left); the neck of the retort swells into a globe above his head, then bends downwards, its bulb resting on a table or pedestal (right). A bishop (Pretyman) sits in back view (left) facing the furnace. The retort contains (above the furnace) papers inscribed 'Treaty of Commerce between Great Britain and France', and also (in the bulb which Watson faces): 'Chemical Deductions' (impolitic prejudicial to the Manufacturers / My Vote against the Treaty.' In the central bulb above his head are small etchings of 'St Paul's' and 'Lincoln' [cathedrals]; between them is etched: 'Some fancy this Promotion odd / As not the handy-work of God / Though e'en the Bishops dissapointed / Must own it made by God's anointed. Swift [i.e. Jonathan Swift].'--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Ms. note in contempory hand at the bottom of the print: Bp. Watson of Landaff speaking against the French commercial treaty.
- Publisher:
- Publd. 8th March 1787 by T. Cornell
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Watson, Richard, 1737-1816 and Pretyman, George, 1750-1827
- Subject (Topic):
- Commercial treaties, Public opinion, Bishops, Cathedrals, Chemistry, and Preaching
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Eloquence founded on chemical principles [graphic]
4.
- Creator:
- McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1757]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents R462 no. 10 Impression 2 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 38
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1819/1821); standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; published second state. The objects on the table are a print of the Roman eagle at Strawberry Hill, which Walpole considered 'one of the finest pieces of Greek sculpture in the world' (see Description of Strawberry Hill, Works, v. ii, p. 463), an ink pot and quill; a roll of manuscript, and three books
- Alternative Title:
- Horace Walpole : youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 1 print : mezzotint ; 31.8 x 25.4 cm., and No. 19 in Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Horace Walpole youngest son of Sr. Robt. Walpole, Earl of Orford / [graphic]
5.
- 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]
6.
- Creator:
- Company of Merchants of England Trading to the Levant
- Call Number:
- Quarto 49 2535 7
- Container / Volume:
- v.1
- Image Count:
- 606
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Alternative Title:
- Letters of a Turkey merchant
- Description:
- Eight autograph letters signed to Sir. Andrew Rickard laid in v. 1., These manuscripts were all purchased by Horace Walpole in the sale of Sir Julius Caesar's manuscripts, Paterson, 14-16 December 1757. Sold variously at Strawberry Hill, as listed below. Sir Frederic Madden tried to get as many of the Caesar manuscripts as he could for the British Museum. His Diary (now in the Bodleian) tells the story, as quoted by Mr. Lewis in his third lecture. On May 6th Rodd brought him 'the two best volumes' of the Caesar manuscripts (apparently lots 152 and 154), for which in the settlement he paid £240; he added that they cost the booksellers (in the Ring) at the sale about £140: lot 152 was run up by Boone, but Madden noted that the low price for lot 154 (£31.10.0 for a collection worth 200 guineas) made up for the high price of lot 152., and Levant Company. Letter Books. Copies of letters to and from their agents, chiefly in Constantinople, 1632-1661. Manuscript. Three volumes, folio. Old vellum. Bookplate 1 in Volumes 2 and 3.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Letter books containing copies of letters to and from their agents, chiefly in Constantinople, 1632-1661
7.
- Creator:
- Company of Merchants of England Trading to the Levant
- Call Number:
- Quarto 49 2535 7
- Container / Volume:
- v.2
- Image Count:
- 664
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Alternative Title:
- Letters of a Turkey merchant
- Description:
- Eight autograph letters signed to Sir. Andrew Rickard laid in v. 1., These manuscripts were all purchased by Horace Walpole in the sale of Sir Julius Caesar's manuscripts, Paterson, 14-16 December 1757. Sold variously at Strawberry Hill, as listed below. Sir Frederic Madden tried to get as many of the Caesar manuscripts as he could for the British Museum. His Diary (now in the Bodleian) tells the story, as quoted by Mr. Lewis in his third lecture. On May 6th Rodd brought him 'the two best volumes' of the Caesar manuscripts (apparently lots 152 and 154), for which in the settlement he paid £240; he added that they cost the booksellers (in the Ring) at the sale about £140: lot 152 was run up by Boone, but Madden noted that the low price for lot 154 (£31.10.0 for a collection worth 200 guineas) made up for the high price of lot 152., and Levant Company. Letter Books. Copies of letters to and from their agents, chiefly in Constantinople, 1632-1661. Manuscript. Three volumes, folio. Old vellum. Bookplate 1 in Volumes 2 and 3.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Letter books containing copies of letters to and from their agents, chiefly in Constantinople, 1632-1661
8.
- Creator:
- Company of Merchants of England Trading to the Levant
- Call Number:
- Quarto 49 2535 7
- Container / Volume:
- v.3
- Image Count:
- 574
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Alternative Title:
- Letters of a Turkey merchant
- Description:
- Eight autograph letters signed to Sir. Andrew Rickard laid in v. 1., These manuscripts were all purchased by Horace Walpole in the sale of Sir Julius Caesar's manuscripts, Paterson, 14-16 December 1757. Sold variously at Strawberry Hill, as listed below. Sir Frederic Madden tried to get as many of the Caesar manuscripts as he could for the British Museum. His Diary (now in the Bodleian) tells the story, as quoted by Mr. Lewis in his third lecture. On May 6th Rodd brought him 'the two best volumes' of the Caesar manuscripts (apparently lots 152 and 154), for which in the settlement he paid £240; he added that they cost the booksellers (in the Ring) at the sale about £140: lot 152 was run up by Boone, but Madden noted that the low price for lot 154 (£31.10.0 for a collection worth 200 guineas) made up for the high price of lot 152., and Levant Company. Letter Books. Copies of letters to and from their agents, chiefly in Constantinople, 1632-1661. Manuscript. Three volumes, folio. Old vellum. Bookplate 1 in Volumes 2 and 3.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Letter books containing copies of letters to and from their agents, chiefly in Constantinople, 1632-1661
9.
- Creator:
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
- Published / Created:
- 1774.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 49 436
- Container / Volume:
- v.2
- Image Count:
- 311
- Description:
- BEIN Z78 061t: Bookplates of Fletcher Fleming Rayrigg and Lawrence A. Waldron. This copy has bound in at end of vol. 2 two leaves. Additional notes which were prepared when the 4th edition was published, to supply former purchasers with notes that had been added. and Horace Walpole's copy, with many notes and marks. Modern half-calf (in boards in 1842). Bookplate 2 later state (in 1st volume). With W.S. Lewis's notes.
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Dodsley
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life and Etiquette
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope ... to his son, Philip Stanhope ... : together with several other pieces on various subjects
10.
- Creator:
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
- Published / Created:
- 1774.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 49 436
- Container / Volume:
- v.1
- Image Count:
- 296
- Description:
- BEIN Z78 061t: Bookplates of Fletcher Fleming Rayrigg and Lawrence A. Waldron. This copy has bound in at end of vol. 2 two leaves. Additional notes which were prepared when the 4th edition was published, to supply former purchasers with notes that had been added. and Horace Walpole's copy, with many notes and marks. Modern half-calf (in boards in 1842). Bookplate 2 later state (in 1st volume). With W.S. Lewis's notes.
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Dodsley
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life and Etiquette
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope ... to his son, Philip Stanhope ... : together with several other pieces on various subjects
