A print with the rules of the card game Faro engraved with decorative motifs across top edge. The print has been mounted on sticks of bone to form a fan
Alternative Title:
Regles du pharaon
Description:
Titles in English and French from item., Text below English title: The game of faro is perhaps the most simple & at the same time the most entertaining of all the games of hazard., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and mounted on bone sticks to form a fan., and Folded to 25 x 2 x 1.8 cm.
Publisher:
Published according to act by J. Cock and J.P. Crowder, Wood Street, London
"A bird's eye view of London with the river to the left and Lambeth Church and grounds in the foreground, St Paul's can be seen in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Veüe de Londres dessinè de dessus l'Eglize de Lambeth
Description:
The LewisWalpoleLibrary: From the
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by J. Boydell engraver, at Unicorn the corner of Queen Street, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Thames River (England),, London (England), England, and London.
"View of the Mansion House looking down Cornhill and Lombard Street on the left, and also showing the west side of the building on the right; a grand carriage drawn by six horses passing front of building, many figures dotted across streets, a sedan chair crossing from the left"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Vüe de l'Hôtel du Lord Maire
Description:
The LewisWalpoleLibrary: From the
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Bowles and Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[13 February 1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.02.13.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on an English post courier (as opposed to a French courier, see British Museum Satires No. 4737): a man on horseback, blowing a horn, with an enormous sack at his back; he rides along a country road towards the right where a gibbet stands with two hanging bodies."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
altered imprint statements, see LewisWalpole
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 13th Feby. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134, New Bond Street
Scene in a restaurant: a female servant is delivering a dish to a flirtatious diner who is stroking her chin while a male servant excitedly delivers a menu to a second male diner. A massive painting of a grain harvesting scene adorns the wall in the background
Description:
Title from caption inscribed in black ink below image., Date from note inscribed in graphite pencil below caption., and For further information, consult library staff.
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1731–1743
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
Box 45, folder 20
Image Count:
111
Description:
Autograph manuscript poems cover 94 leaves (the full volume), with poems arranged/dated chronologically from 1731 to 1743. Most of the material was published in his Works, and the album pages were annotated in pencil in the twentieth century with those citations.
The volume is in a stiff board binding covered with marbled paper with a calf spine. It has printed CH-W and Phillipps number labels on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 69; the Phillipps number is 10930.
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1743–1744
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
Box 45, folder 21
Image Count:
71
Description:
Autograph manuscript writings cover 57 leaves (about half of the volume) in an otherwise blank book, with poems arranged/dated chronologically from 1743 to 1744. Most of the material was published in his Works, and the album pages were annotated in pencil in the twentieth century with those citations.
The volume is in a stiff board binding covered with marbled paper with a calf spine. It has printed CH-W and Phillipps number labels on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 70; the Phillipps number is 10930.
Portrait drawing of Ferdinand Magellan; bust length, turned slightly right; with a long dark beard; wearing a black hat and a red shirt with gold buttons
Description:
Title lettered in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly mounted with one other drawing on page 81 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
