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1.
An actress at her toilet, or, Miss Brazen just breecht [graphic]

Published / Created:
published as the act directs, 24 June 1779.
Call Number:
779.06.24.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"The interior of a well-furnished dressing-room. A young woman stands in the centre, arms akimbo, putting on a pair of breeches and looking towards the mirror which stands on a dressing-table (right) in which a small monkey is also looking. A maid-servant (left) stoops to fasten the buttons at the right. knee. A poodle, partly shaved, barks at the actress; it stands on a play bill inscribed "and the Part of Capt Macheath by Miss ." A pair of top-boots lies on the floor. On a stool (right) is a sword, a pair of stays, and a paper inscribed "To be seen a most surprising Hermaphrodite.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miss Brazen just breecht
Description:
Title from text engraved below image. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Actresses, Clothing & dress, Cross dressing, Dogs, and Women domestics
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > An actress at her toilet, or, Miss Brazen just breecht [graphic]

2.
An opera girl of Paris in a full dress [graphic]

Creator:
Caldwall, James, 1739-1819, printmaker
Published / Created:
1st March 1773.
Call Number:
773.03.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image., Printed on one sheet with: An opera girl of Paris in a morning dress., and Watermark: J Taylor.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Actresses, British, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > An opera girl of Paris in a full dress [graphic]

3.
An opera girl of Paris in a morning dress [graphic]

Creator:
Caldwall, James, 1739-1819, printmaker
Published / Created:
1st March 1773.
Call Number:
773.03.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image., Printed on one sheet with: An opera girl of Paris in a full dress., and Watermark: J Taylor.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside & R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Actresses, British, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > An opera girl of Paris in a morning dress [graphic]

4.
Anna May Wong (1907-1961) American actress

Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
Undated
Call Number:
Za V375 +2
Collection Title:
Photographs made by him.
Container / Volume:
Box v. 37 Wettergren - Wong | Folder Wong, Anna May [1]
Image Count:
2
Description:
Printed on verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / Beinecke Library, Yale U.".
Subject (Name):
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 and Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961
Subject (Topic):
Actresses
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anna May Wong (1907-1961) American actress

5.
Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 July 1790]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake., Mounted on page 162 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., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 14.6 x 22 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in pencil in lower right corner: Some of the figures in the boxes are different from those in Mr. Walpole's picture.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

6.
Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 July 1790]
Call Number:
Hogarth 790.07.01.09 Box 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

7.
Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 July 1790]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake., and On page 235 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: plate mark 14.5 x 21.9 cm, on sheet 15.4 x 22.7 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

8.
Book of drawings and prints [graphic].

Creator:
Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852
Published / Created:
[183-?]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B45 830
Image Count:
47
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A collection of prints and drawings probably assembled in the late 1830s or early 1840s, although the drawings may have been executed earlier. The wash drawings by Agnes Berry are of mostly Italian sites in Genoa, Florence, Naples, Rome, and Nice with one drawing of Mont Cenis in France. The lithographs are more varied in theme and include: two engravings after paintings by Raphael, possibly removed from an illustrated book; etchings and lithographs of carriages and coaches; lithographs of buildings; a group of four etchings by Henry Monnier and two lithographs by Delpach; and nine etchings and engravings of contemporary actors and actresses in theatrical costumes. All images have been mounted and most have been captioned, probaby by Margret Graves
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger., Bound in green morocco with gold tooling and initials MG [i.e. Margret Graves]., Dedication page: wash drawing with inscription "Margret Graves from Agnes Berry"., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Carriages & coaches, and Costumes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Book of drawings and prints [graphic].

9.
Eliza Haywood [graphic]

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1725]
Call Number:
Portraits H427 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Engraving of the portrait of the novelist Eliza Haywood after the painting by Parmentier; oval bust, facing right, in rectangular frame
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756), English author and actress., and Mounted on wove paper with watermark: Whatman 1886.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Haywood, Eliza, 1693?-1756,
Subject (Topic):
Authors, British, and Actresses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Eliza Haywood [graphic]

10.
For the benefit of Mr. Walker Theatre Royal Covent Garden / [graphic]

Creator:
Sympson, Joseph, -1736, attributed name
Published / Created:
[179-?]
Call Number:
Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.3
Collection Title:
Volume 3, before page 159. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stage scene with five performers in Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'; a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within ribbon at top of image; remainder of title from text below image., One of the suppositious 'Sympson' prints whose attributions have long been doubted; see Paulson 1965/60 Appendix I, pages 313-4 for more information., Dated to the 1790s in the British Museum online catalog, registration no.: Cc,3.122., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Polly portrayed by Lavinia Fenton., Mounted to 38 x 27 cm., and Bound in before page 159 (leaf numbered '22' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > For the benefit of Mr. Walker Theatre Royal Covent Garden / [graphic]

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