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1.
Medical Society of London. This ticket admits the bearer to the Anniversary Meeting at the

Published / Created:
[18--?]
Call Number:
646 802 M243 v.3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Ticket to the Anniversary Meeting of the Medical Society of London, to occur at the Society's House on Bolt Court, Fleet Street
Alternative Title:
This ticket admits the bearer to the Anniversary Meeting at the Society's House, Bolt Court, Fleet Strt
Description:
Title from item., Entirely engraved; illustrated at top with an image of Apollo with bow and arrow seated over a slain serpent, signed "W. Grainger inv. sc." in lower right., Monogrammatic initials "MSL" within circle in lower left., Completed in manuscript with details of the meeting, including the date of 8 March 1821 and time of 3 o'clock. "Mr. Callaway" is noted as giving the oration, and the ticket is numbered "No. 144" in lower right., Mounted to 27.1 x 20.9 cm., and Mounted before page 469 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Medical Society of London. and Apollo (Deity),
Subject (Topic):
Societies (Associations). and Serpents
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Medical Society of London. This ticket admits the bearer to the Anniversary Meeting at the Society's House, Bolt Court, Fleet Strt., the [blank] day of March 18[blank] at [blank] oclock. The oration by [blank]. N [blank].

2.
[Arms of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London] [graphic].

Published / Created:
[18--?]
Call Number:
646 802 M243 v.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of the arms of the Society of Apothecaries, with Apollo on the shield, his head radiant, overcoming pestilence which is represented by a wyvern; the supporters are golden unicorns, the crest is a rhinoceros; motto "Opiferque Per Orbem Dicor" within banner at bottom
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Probably meant to be printed at the top of official notices and invitations of the Society., Mounted to 27.1 x 20.8 cm; mounted above is a smaller (sheet 40 x 48 mm) hand-colored etching of the same arms, the details varying slightly., and Mounted before page 359 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. and Apollo (Deity),
Subject (Topic):
Guilds, Coats of arms, Unicorns, and Rhinoceroses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Arms of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London] [graphic].

3.
Apollo in danger environed with an host of foes, Dryden / [graphic]

Creator:
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1811]
Call Number:
811.06.00.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on a recent performance of Timor the Tartar depicts a horde of Tartar horsemen, wearing turbans with aigrettes and holding scimitars, as they attack a classic Apollo figure who looks back with horror as he flees, his broken bow in his left hand and his helmet and quiver at his feet. They are lead in the attack by a lady on horseback and wearing medieval-style costume. Apollo appears to be punched in the head by a man in the background, wearing boxing gloves. On the right Kemble is about to thrust a piece labelled "Cocktail ginger" into the horse's rear as he lifts its tail. In the center foreground a man shoots a blunderbuss, which is supported by a pile of books with titles: American, New Musical Pieces, Shipwreck, etc. From the muzzle issue words and papers: Plan of new tragedy, Poetry for an oratorio, Remarks on light & shade, etc
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: The Satirist, viii, p. 453., Attributed to De Wilde in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint.
Publisher:
Published for the Satirist
Subject (Name):
Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854, Lewis, M. G. 1775-1818. (Matthew Gregory),, and Apollo (Deity)
Subject (Topic):
Tatars and Campaigns & battles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Apollo in danger environed with an host of foes, Dryden / [graphic]

4.
A meeting of connoisseurs Assemblée des connoisseurs / [graphic] =

Creator:
Williamson, Thomas, active 1801-1825, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 February 1807]
Call Number:
807.02.02.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in an artist's studio lit from an attic window (left). Four connoisseurs are grouped round a large canvas on an easel: an Apollo with a sheaf of arrows, head turned in profile to the left. The model is a tall black man in the pose of the Apollo but with very different features, the left hand holding the stick of a broom which supports the pose. A fifth connoisseur reaches up to alter the position of the model's head. The artist stands beside his canvas facing the invaders, the left hand, holding palette and brushes, rests on the canvas; he sucks his mahl-stick with a gloomy scowl. On the extreme right a cat sits in a cradle, behind which an alarmed little boy hides. The artist's wife, with an infant in her arms, faces the fire with her back to the visitors whose unwelcome intrusion is apparent. Behind is a bed with drawn curtains. Three casts from the antique decorate the bare room. The model's coat and hat lie on the ground (right). On the far left in the foreground a dog urinates against two canvases leaning against the wall
Alternative Title:
Assemblée des connisseurs
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image. and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 2, 1807, by R. Cribb, 288 Holborn
Subject (Topic):
Apollo, Black people, Artists' studios, Artists' models, Artists' materials, Artists, Brooms & brushes, Windows, Canopy beds, Cradles, Infants, Fireplaces, Boys, Cats, Dogs, and Urination
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A meeting of connoisseurs Assemblée des connoisseurs / [graphic] =

5.
Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated. Shakespere [sic] [graphic].

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1794]
Call Number:
794.01.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Bottom sits in an arm-chair directed to the left, wearing spectacles on his ass's forehead. In his right hand is a piece of charcoal in a holder, in his left is a paper, which he is studying. Above his head is etched 'Apollo'. On the left stands a man looking over Bottom's shoulder, his fists clenched. Behind (right) two students (seated) draw from the antique, a nude male statue on a pedestal just above the level of their heads."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image, a line from a speech by the character Quince, from Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream, iii.1.121., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below title: "W_hen Phidias or Raph'el shall chuse to repair, I_ncog to our fine modern Artists' fam'd School, L_ost in wonder to see stuck in Genius's Chair T_he Block which now fills it) a formal old Fool. O_ ff again with this sneering Remark they will go, N_o marvel your Pupils old Friend are so so". JP.", and Initial letters of each line form word 'Wilton.'
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Wilton, Joseph, 1722-1803, Richards, John Inigo, 1731-1810, Phidias, approximately 500 B.C.-approximately 430 B.C., Raphael, 1483-1520., Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), and Apollo (Deity)
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Artists' models, and Sculptors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated. Shakespere [sic] [graphic].

6.
[Apollo calling up the fine arts and sciences] [graphic].

Creator:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1789]
Call Number:
Drawer 789.00.00.77
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Apollo alighting with a torch in his right hand, wings spread, gesturing with his left hand towards the arts and sciences, allegoriacal figures grouped on the right with Sculpture, leaning on a bas-relief of George III, Painting and Architecture in the foreground and a figure on the right with a globe, compass and other navigational tools; in an oval; after West."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Artist, printmaker, and publication information from lettered state described in the Calabi and de Vesme catalogue with imprint: London, Publish'd ... Octr. 1, 1789, by B. West ..., State from Calabi and de Vesme catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge.
Publisher:
B. West
Subject (Name):
Apollo (Deity),
Subject (Topic):
Mythology
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Apollo calling up the fine arts and sciences] [graphic].

7.
La belle assemblêe [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[12 May 1787]
Call Number:
787.05.12.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Five elderly women of fashion attend an altar of Love in a temple whose walls are wreathed with roses. The fat Mrs. Hobart, in profile to the right, pours incense on the flames of the altar; in her right hand is an open book, 'Ninon'. Behind her (left) Lady Archer, with the nose of a bird of prey, leads a lamb garlanded with roses; she guides the animal with a riding-whip. Miss Jefferies walks beside Lady Archer holding a basket of flowers. On the extreme left Lady Mount-Edgcumb, aged and bent, holds a dove in each hand. On the right of the altar Lady Cecilia Johnstone plays a lyre. The altar is decorated with rams' heads, a heart, arrows, and roses. A sculptured group of the three Graces stands in an alcove in the wall above the altar. In the background (left) is a mountain peak, Parnassus, on which sits a tiny figure of Apollo, playing a fiddle, the sun irradiating his head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of quoted text following title: "Here, Love his golden shafts employs; here lights "his constant lamp; and waves his purple wings; "reigns here and revels." Milton., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Music -- Literary quotation: Milton -- Mythology: Parnassus -- Three graces -- Elizabeth Jeffries., Watermark: J. Whatman., and The ladies are identified in ink on the back of the print: Ldy. Cecilia Johnson, Mrs. Hobart, Ldy. Archer, Ldy. Edgcumbe.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1787, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Mount Edgcumbe, Emma Gilbert, Lady, 1729-1807, and Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817
Subject (Topic):
Graces, The, Apollo, Altars, Interiors, Temples, Books, Roses, and Lyres
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > La belle assemblêe [graphic].

8.
Apollo and the Muses inflicting penance on Dr. Pomposo round Parnassus [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 July 1783]
Call Number:
783.07.29.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A half-undressed Dr. Johnson in a dunce's cap and with a rope around his neck walks from left to right, driven by Apollo, who holds the other end of the rope, and the Muses with uplifted scourges and birch rods. On his cap are the names of the poets Johnson criticized. He carries a placard describing his guilt as an unjust critic. In the background, on the summit of Parnassus, can be seen a temple highlighted by the sun behind it, with Pegasus flying nearby
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: * Vide, the last sermon at St. Dunstans., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 29th, 1783, by Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 and Apollo (Deity)
Subject (Topic):
Muses (Greek deities), Poetry, History and criticism, and Whips
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Apollo and the Muses inflicting penance on Dr. Pomposo round Parnassus [graphic].

9.
Our various task, in emblem here display'd, Reader, behold; and whence we have our aid, Apollo

Published / Created:
[ca. 1730]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Apollo before a group of female musicians
Description:
Title from first line of text below image., Formerly attributed to Hogarth., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On page 5 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Apollo and Muses (Greek deities)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Our various task, in emblem here display'd, Reader, behold; and whence we have our aid, Apollo dictates, or isnpires the song, while warbles sweetly from the Muses tongue ... [graphic].

10.
The stage medley representing the polite tast [sic] of the Town & the matchless merits of Poet G

Published / Created:
[April 1728]
Call Number:
728.04.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the popularity of the Beggar's Opera in the form of a medley print. At top left a print shows two oval portraits, Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum on the left and Thomas Walker as Macheath on the right, two short columns of verse beneath. In the centre lies a print depicting a debased Parnassus: in the foreground muses drink from a barrel, one vomiting; a woman wearing a hat hands a basket to a muse sitting in a dust-cart drawn by a Pegasus; a cornucopia lies upended on the ground: in the background, is a boxing match surrounded on two sides with a temporary stand from which flies the flag of St George and to the right of which a bull and a bear are preceded by Apollo playing a fiddle; beneath are four lines of verse describing the scene. Behind the Parnassus print another shows the ghost of Jeremy Collier rising from his grave holding the pamphlet in which he had condemned "The Immoratlities of the English Stage", four lines of verse beneath. This print is overlaid by a smaller oblong print with four verses and portraits of Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst) Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Lavinia Fenton (as Polly Peachum). On the left is a print in which Democritus and Heraclitus examine a globe together, eight lines of verse beneath. In the centre is an engraved address 'To Polly Peachum' quoted, according to the earlier state from The Daily Journal, April 19, 1728. At lower left is a print with a stage where a Apollo descends on a cloud to judge between rival singers (Faustina and Cuzzoni) to whom a group of gentlemen with asses' ears listen without judgement, two columns of verse beneath explain the scene. On the right, a scene by a river where a balance has been set up in which the Beggar's Opera outweighs Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Addison, Nicholas Rowe and Thomas Otway; the personification of trade collapses in the arms of George II, assisted by Queen Caroline; verses beneath claim that the popularity of the Beggar's Opera is indicative of the sorry state of the country. At bottom right is a scene in Newgate with men and women sitting round a table on which is a punch bowl and pipes; they are toasting a laureated John Gay who sits at the centre, saying 'The Beggers Opera for yr', 'G(a)y for ever', 'Let's vote him King of the Beggers' and he responds, 'Yov'e done me too great an honour but I'll -'; a small child stands beside the table; two columns of verse beneath."-- British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text engraved above image., "Poet G-" refers to John Gay., Later state, lacking references to 'Daily Journal April 19th. 1728' below the verses "to the Tune of the Soldier and ye Sailor" and to 'Daily Journal April 10 1798' below those "To Polly Peacham". Cf. Compare no. 1806 in v. 2 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 45 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732, Gay, John, 1685-1732., Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760, Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744, Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726, Bordoni, Faustina, 1697-1781., Amhurst, N. 1697-1742. (Nicholas),, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Heraclitus, of Ephesus., Democritus, approximately 460 B.C.-approximately 370 B.C., and Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc, Pegasus (Greek mythology), Apollo, Muses (Greek deities), Parnassus, Mount (Greece), Prints, Prisons, and Theaters
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The stage medley representing the polite tast [sic] of the Town & the matchless merits of Poet G- Polly Peachum and Captn. Macheath. [graphic]

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