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2.
- Published / Created:
- [1709]
- Call Number:
- 709.00.00.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Sacheverell sits at a table opposite a bishop wearing a mitre. He flicks his pen at a devil that flies to the left. The bookshelves on the wall behind them is filled with books. On the floor are a papal tiara and cope
- Alternative Title:
- Pope and the devil vanquish'd by a flurt from the doctors pen
- Description:
- Engraved broadside; title from caption above image., Publication date from another state in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ten lines of verse below image: I no such seconds* need to plead my cause ..., Cf. No. 1499 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Bowditch's manuscript annotations on the mounting sheet., and Mounted to 35 x 45 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724
- Subject (Topic):
- Bishops, Devil, Writing materials, and Bookcases
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The High Church champion pleading his own cause, or, The pope and the devil vanquish'd by a flurt from the doctors pen [graphic].
3.
- Creator:
- Loveday, T., printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1772?]
- Call Number:
- 772.00.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- John Thorley sits in his library at a cloth-draped table writing with a quill pen; the shelves behind him are lined with books. He makes notes on paper as he fingers bodies of bees (labeled 'B') on the table beside him. Through open French doors are seen six beehives (labeled 'A') with bees flying around them on a shelf in the garden
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Image originally appeared in: Thorley, J. Melisselogia, or, The female monarchy. London : printed for the author; and sold by N. Thorley; and J. Davidson, 1744., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted to 23 x 14 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Thorley, John, 1671-1759,
- Subject (Topic):
- Bee culture, Beehives, Entomologists, Libraries (Rooms & spaces), and Bookcases
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [John Thorley in his library studying bees] [graphic]
4.
- Published / Created:
- [4 January 1773]
- Call Number:
- 773.01.04.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men, both in elaborate wigs, sit on opposite sides of a table playing cribbage while a young woman seated between them at the end of the table, watches the game. The player on the left looks delightedly at his loosing opponent and puts another peg in the board. He has a large quantity of coins while his adversary has only one coin left. The table holds only one wine glass and one bottle only. On the wall behind them is a hanging bookshelf with feather pen in an inkwell and an oval painting (print?) of a mother and child (a Madonna and Child?)
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Window mounted to 41 x 29 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 4th, 1773, by W. Humphrey, St. Martins Lane
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookcases, Eating & drinking, Card games, Gambling, Games, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cribbage players [graphic].
5.
- Published / Created:
- [27 April 1774]
- Call Number:
- 774.04.27.01
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 49. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man with the profile of an animal, perhaps a sheep, wearing gown and bands, holds a large tie-wig of the kind worn by judges in his left hand, the fingers of his right hand are held out as if in calculation; he looks at himself in an ornately framed oval mirror on the wall with an expression of singular imbecility. An open door in the back wall shows rows of books in a book-case: on its lintel stands a bust. An oval (half length) portrait hangs on the left of the door, it is of a man in wig and bands, probably the subject of the caricature. Two high-backed chairs are the only furniture of the room."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Two lines of text below title: To wig - or not to wig, that is the question., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "14" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject: Portrait of a man in a wig., and Watermark (partially cut off): Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 27, 1774, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookcases, Chairs, Interiors, Judges, Law offices, Lawyers, Mirrors, Sculpture, Sheep, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The consultation [graphic].
6.
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 20 April 1774.
- Call Number:
- Portraits H675 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A half-length portrait of The Reverend Mr. Edward Hitchin, dissenting minister at Spitalfields, looking forward, with body turned to the left, in wig and bands; a curtain behind, open on the left to reveal two shelves of book with only one spine title legible, "Bible"; oval frame
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., "Carington Bowles excudit"--Centered below image., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Name):
- Hitchin, Edward, 1725 or 1726-1774,
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookcases and Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Reverend Mr. Edward Hitchin, B.D. [graphic].
7.
- Published / Created:
- [27 April 1774]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 49. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man with the profile of an animal, perhaps a sheep, wearing gown and bands, holds a large tie-wig of the kind worn by judges in his left hand, the fingers of his right hand are held out as if in calculation; he looks at himself in an ornately framed oval mirror on the wall with an expression of singular imbecility. An open door in the back wall shows rows of books in a book-case: on its lintel stands a bust. An oval (half length) portrait hangs on the left of the door, it is of a man in wig and bands, probably the subject of the caricature. Two high-backed chairs are the only furniture of the room."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Two lines of text below title: To wig - or not to wig, that is the question., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "14" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject: Portrait of a man in a wig., First of two plates on leaf 49., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 23.7 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 27, 1774, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookcases, Chairs, Interiors, Judges, Law offices, Lawyers, Mirrors, Sculpture, Sheep, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The consultation [graphic].
8.
- Creator:
- Darly, Mattina, active 1764-1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.05.01.08
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady (Mrs. Catherine Macaulay) with an aquiline profile sits at a table opposite a clergy man (Dr. Wilson) as she writes with a quill pen. The walls are lined with full bookshelves separated in the middle by a fireplace with a mantelpiece on which sits a bust of "Alfred rex". Both figures wear the same enormous hair as in British Museum no. 5441
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., In black ink plate numbered "2" added to upper right corner in ink., Mrs. Macauley and Dr. Wilson also appear in another Mattina Darly satirical print. See number 5441 in v. 5 of British Museum catalogue: A speedy & effectual preparation for the next world. [London] : Pub. May 1, 1777 by M Darly 39 Strand., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Contemporary annotations in pencil in lower margin: Mrs. M[...?]ly ; Dr. Wilson.
- Publisher:
- Pub. May 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791. and Wilson, Thomas, 1703-1784.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookcases, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Private libraries, Sculpture, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The historians [graphic]
9.
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, 20 Apr. 1778.
- Call Number:
- 778.04.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A very fat gentleman on the left paying court to an ugly old lady on the right; both are seated with the gentleman with a small dog beneath his chair and a cat near his feet; the lady is holding a fan and wearing the towering hairstyle of the period. Behind them draperies are pulled aside revealing shelves of books
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Place of publication follows publisher's street address., Numbered in lower left of plate: 382., Variant of George 4557, without verses below design, but with imprint date present., and Contemporary pencil ms. notation identifying subjects: Mr. Mason & Mrs. Montague.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Montague, Elizabeth Robinson, 1720-1800. and Mason, William, 1725-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Couples, Interiors, Bookcases, Dogs, and Cats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Abelard and Eloisa [graphic].
10.
- Published / Created:
- [21 May 1778]
- Call Number:
- 778.05.21.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A rather oversized woman with towering hairstyle is seated facing right, singing as she plays a piano. On the piano is a sheet of music entitled "Anna", with more music on the floor and books labelled "Scotch airs," "New songs", and "Cottilio." A small open cupboard is visible beneath the piano, with a small chair and embroidery frame behind the singer. A shelf of books hangs on the wall, together with a mirror and two landscapes
- Alternative Title:
- Accomplished maid
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Numbered in plate at top: v. 2, 65., and Mounted on sheet 40 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly May 21, 1778 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Interiors, Singing, Cupboards, Bookcases, Pianos, and Hairstyles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The accomplish'd maid [graphic].
