Inscription on verso, in ink: "Entrance of the villa at Strawberry Hill. E.E. 1781.", Signed and dated lower right corner of image: "E.E. 1781"., Numbered in pencil on verso: "No. J"., Note in pencil in unknown hand: "The print of this in the Description, 1784 has slight differences: pot with shrub missing, includes more at right, + top. This is surely Edward's original watercolor for the famous print however.", Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Title written in unknown hand at bottom left corner of sheet, below image., Formerly titled in repository as: "North front.", Unknown artist., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Note on verso: There is nothing to show when this was done. It is almost parallel with the "North front" in Bedford's Description (p. 20), 1784 which says "Barlow del et sculp.", and For further information, consult library staff.
SH Contents C323 no. 2 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 68
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor drawing representing the procession in the romance of the Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Description:
John Carter (1748-1817), British draughtsman and antiquary., Signed and titled by the artist, lower center. Same text transcribed in another hand on verso., and Later label on verso: This picture was painted by John Carter (1748-1817) and was exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1790. It belonged to Horace Walpole and was at Strawberry Hill until the sale in 1842 when it was bought by the Reverend Horace Cholmondeley from whom it came through his daughter and grand-daughter to H.C.J.
An album of prints with some drawings by Henry William Bunbury, assembled by Horace Walpole (ca. 1776-1782), and mounted with captions by Walpole along with prints etched or engraved after Bunbury designs by: W. Dickinson, F. Bartolozzi, Thomas Watson, J. Bretherton, J. Baldrey, and P.W. White. Includes a series "Hints to bad horsemen" and a portrait by Joshua Reynolds of a young Bunbury engraved by T. Blackmore
Description:
Title vignette., Title from t.p. printed at Strawberry Hill Press by Thomas Kirgate, mounted on p. [1]., and Original marbled boards with calf backs. Bookplate 2 early state. (Later state in the second volume). Press-mark C.19. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811. and Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811,
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Pictorial, Animals, Horseback riding, Horses, Jumping (Horsemanship), and Peasants
An album of prints with some drawings by Henry William Bunbury, assembled by Horace Walpole (ca. 1776-1782), and mounted with captions by Walpole along with prints etched or engraved after Bunbury designs by: W. Dickinson, F. Bartolozzi, Thomas Watson, J. Bretherton, J. Baldrey, and P.W. White. Includes a series "Hints to bad horsemen" and a portrait by Joshua Reynolds of a young Bunbury engraved by T. Blackmore
Description:
Title vignette., Title from t.p. printed at Strawberry Hill Press by Thomas Kirgate, mounted on p. [1]., and Original marbled boards with calf backs. Bookplate 2 early state. (Later state in the second volume). Press-mark C.19. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811. and Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811,
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Pictorial, Animals, Horseback riding, Horses, Jumping (Horsemanship), and Peasants
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 55 Box D305
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two rows of 'Lilliputian' caricatures depicted in a diminutive style engaged in conversation, gossip, commerce, appraisals, and humor generally along the theme of sea travel, sailing, and sea sickness. Captions near the depicted figures include, "Oh that da--d hoy! I am as sick as a horse and there is my son Jack just as bad behind the hedge!"; "Come on and don't be so vulgar, you see your daughter and I don't mind it a fig!"; "This way your honors the best lodging in all Margate!"; My Missess has sent home this parcel of books and want another basket full all novels if you please."; "If you Mistress goes on in this way, she'll read out my whole stock in a week." ...
Description:
Title from ink inscription in the artist's hand next to image., Signed by the artist., and Date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Margate (England)
Subject (Topic):
Ocean travel, Motion sickness, Sailing, and Sailboats
Portrait drawing of Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros; bust length, in profile to the left; wearing a dark cassock and a red zucchetto
Description:
Title inscribed below image, in pencil in a contemporary hand., 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 three other drawings on page 83 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 three other drawings to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Title from caption below image., Dedication etched below title: From an original drawing in the collection of Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, to whom this plate is ... humbly dedicated by ... Thos. Macklin., "Vide Merry wives of Windsor, Act 4, Sc. 2.", One of a series of plates illustrating scenes from Shakespeare's plays, engraved after the drawings of Bunbury by various printmakers and published 1792-1796 by Thomas Macklin., and A small ink and wash drawing of a face with the ms. notation "noctes dramaticae" on a separate sheet (27 x 71 mm) pasted below plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
A three-quarter length caricature of a man standing in profile facing right holding his right hand inside the front of his coat and raising the index finger of his right hand
Description:
Title from text inscribed in black ink above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
