Volume 1, page 61. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the western front of Chichester Cross, a 15th-century market cross that stands in the center of the city of Chichester
Alternative Title:
West front
Description:
Title devised by curator., Note in ink in upper left corner: The west front., Date supplied by cataloger., Sheet numbered "2" in upper right corner., Laid down on an ink line mount., Mounted on the following leaf (page 63) is a sheet on which an inscription about the erection and repair of Chichester Cross is reproduced in ink, beneath which is written "Inscription to west front"., and Mounted on page 61 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.
View from the west front at Strawberry Hill, from the across the road. A man in the road, leaning on the walking stick in his left hand appears to gesture with his right hand over at the turret of the villa beyond the brick wall which surrounds the estate
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Inscribed with his name and dated by the artist in design, lower right., and Joseph Charles Barrow (fl. 1789-1802), English artist.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Estates
A view of the west front of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill, as seen from across the road. On the left a man on horseback rides away from the viewer. In the distance a man walks away from the door in the wall around the villa. The foreground on the right is cast in shadow
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attributed to William Pars., and One of two similar watercolors by Pars in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Estates
"Entered according to act of Congress by E.J. Hulbert in the year 1855 in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the State of Michigan". and Imperfect: Mutilated with some loss of text.
A light infrantryman dressed in full uniform executes a drill with his flintlock. The caption from the published plate reads: ... the right hand is brought sharp to seize the flintlock at the top of the left shoulder keeping the body square & elbows close
Description:
Title from print based on this drawing and later published in a volme by Rowlandson. and For further information, consult library staff.
A scene in the Abbey Cloisters. Westminster schoolboys in cap and gown terrify a poor woman and a watchman by turnip-headed ghosts, and by one of their number on stilts who is masked and smoking a flaming pipe. Another, seated on a lamp-bracket, discharges a squirt at the frightened woman who falls, clutching at the fleeing watchman. See British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15204 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Ms. note in pencil on front: Page 76, Vol. 2. Watermark 1825., and Watermarked: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Fear, Couples, School children, and Watchmen
Copper plate for the satirical coat of arms, engraved heraldically, with cards, dice, Earls coronet (Lord Darlington) shaking a dice-box. The arms are encircled by a claret bottle ticker, by way of order. Designed by Horace Walpole and friends (Dick Edgecumbe, and George Selwyn among others).
Alternative Title:
Cog it amor nummi
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Playing cards, Coats of arms, and Copperplates
Whitefield stands in a pulpit, his right arm slightly raised, delivering a sermon to an attentive audience, some of whom are taking notes
Description:
Title and publication date from a manuscript title in later hand below image., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Annotated on verso in contemporary hand: Fr Rufford Mad. Coll. Oxon. 1774.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770,
Subject (Topic):
Audience, Clergy, Churches, Preaching, and Pulpits
