Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Bust-length portrait of Horace Walpole, head turned in three-quarter profile to look right, wearing a short wig curled at the sides; with border
Description:
Title written in ink below image, within border., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., After a drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 3 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
A caricature of the new Lord Mayor of London: Harvey Combe stands centerd in the a hall, surrounded by a desperate looking group of people both rich and poor, who kneel and beg. A skeletal man (buthcher?) holds a knife in one hand and a scroll in the other enscribed with a large order for meat: "12 haundres vension, 6 necks do., 8 turtles, 20 brace partridges, 20 pheasants, 20 brace woodcocks, 16 sirloins beef bacon(?) &"". In the foreground lies another sheet which readss "Tripe Soup. Liver & Crow. Fried Tripe. Bill of Fare for 8 Novr." The outgoing Lord Mayor, Sir Richard Glyn, who was notoriously spendthrift during his period in office, is seen being kicked out of the Mansion House holding large money bag with the word "Saving" written on it. The two cats on the left and the dog following the butcher are also thin from malnorishment. Two large spiders have spun large webs below the archway on the left below a two cupids holding a heart molded above the archway
Alternative Title:
New tenants at a mansion house
Description:
Title written below image., Signed with initials and dated by the artist in lower left corner., "Sold by all the printsellers in London, Nov. 9, 1799"--Written in above title., and Original design for a print published 9 November 1799.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Combe, Harvey Christian, 1752-1818 and Glyn, Richard Carr, Sir, 1755-1838
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Pleading (Begging), Kicking, Poor persons, Interiors, Cats, and Dogs
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1790?]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 1 Box D170
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A richly dressed man stirkes a very dramatic theatical pose with one arm raised to full extension and his second arm crossed diagonally across his torso. Observers include a nearby onlooker with sword in hand and a full complement of lightly-armored soldiers carrying shields, polearms, and banners in the background
Description:
Title from caption inscribed in ink below image in the artist's hand., Date supplied by cataloger., Attributed to Woodward., and For further information, consult library staff.
Watercolor drawing of one of four panels, formerly the doors to a shrine in the abbey of St. Edmundsbury, that were kept by Horace Walpole in the Chapel at Strawberry Hill. This panel shows Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, whole-length directed to the right, bald, wearing a fur trimmed robe, kneeling with his hands clasped in prayer. A man stands over him on the left; trees and buildings are visible in the background
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 227 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 1391-1447, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A male cat standing erect on his hind legs and fashionably in a morning coat and holding a top hat rests his left paw on the shoulder of a female cat dressed in women's puffed-sleeved dress and wearing a cap. She is seated in a chair and sewing; beside her is a sewing case on a pedestal side table. Both wear serious expressions
Description:
Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on costume., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Animals in human situations, Sewing, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 37 Box D210
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A monkey wears a white bonnet and sits on a chamber pot with arms crossed across her lap in imitation of an elderly woman facing opposite with her dress raised sitting upon a 'closet stool'. The pair stare and grin at each other
Description:
Title from inscription below image in the artist's hand., Date devised by cataloger., and Attributed to Woodward.
Subject (Topic):
Chamber pots, Monkeys, Imitation, Bonnets, Women, Urination, and Defecation
Half-length portrait in profile to right of a man smoking a long-stemmed tobacco pipe
Alternative Title:
Jolly landlord
Description:
Title from inscription in graphite pencil over image., Title 'Jolly landlord' struck through and replaced with title 'Independent tradesman'., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on other drawings in the series., 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.
Drawing of the interior of the printing house at Strawberry Hill. Two rooms are visible; the room on the left, which occupies most of the drawing, is lined with windows on the back and left walls and has a fireplace on the right wall. A man stands at a composing frame at the back of the room setting type from the copy propped on the upper case; lower tables line the walls in front of the windows at left, and other furniture occupies the back right corner of the room. In the foreground the doorway on the right gives a partial view of the second room containing two printing presses. A man can be seen working the common press for printing the letterpress text; to the left are two of the handles of the star-wheel of a rolling press for printing intaglio plates (copper plates); above, sheets of printed paper have been hung to dry on lines strung across the room. The floors and ceilings of both rooms are plain and undecorated; a few framed pictures hang on the walls
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 240 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Printer's ornament (19 x 112 mm) mounted below drawing., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Estates, Outbuildings, Printing industry, and Printing presses
A view of inside the stone circle of Stonehenge. One figure, holding a long pole, stands next to a fallen sarsen stone while another figure, holding a similar pole, stands on top of the fallen sarsen stone
Description:
Title written below image, in artist's hand?, Signed lower right: J. Carter, Inscription in pencil lower right: This leaning has now been set upright in 1901., John Carter, English draughtsman and antiquary, 1748-1817., For further information, consult library staff., and One of four drawings in a folder.
