Title from dealer's description., Unsigned; attributed to Rowlandson., and Inscribed on verso: Names of the Ships taken by Lord Howe on 1st of June 1794, and brought into Portsmouth Harbour; Sans Pareille 84 Guns, L'America 74, Limpetue 84, Northumberland 84, Achille 76, La Vengeur 74.
Subject (Geographic):
Portsmouth (England)
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799.
Subject (Topic):
First of June, Battle of the, 1794, Harbors, Warships, British, French, Crowds, Cannons, Carriages & coaches, Peg legs, and Victories
A nighttime scene in which Arthur Gray has broken into the house of George Ballie, Esq. to assault Grizel Murray, wife of Alexander Murray. Mrs. Murray is shown sitting up in her nightgown and using both hands to clutch and turn the footman's pistol aside while Gray uses his free hand to pull down the bed sheets. Behind Mrs. Murray on her canopied bed is Gray's sword
Description:
Title and date from print based on this drawing., Artist from local card catalog record., and Design for an engraving published in The Tyburn chronicle, or Villainy display'd in all its brances ... [1768]. Print titled: Arthur Gray the footman threatening the life of Mrs. Murray.
Watercolor depicting a group of four men sitting around a table containing several empty and spilled pewter tankards responding with shock, distress, and sadness to one of their number reading aloud from their local newspaper
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Cf. Lewis Walpole Library Drawings Un58 no. 59 for a watercolor, probably from the same artist, that continues the 'news' theme.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Newspapers, Sadness, Distress, Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, and Tobacco pipes
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1793?]
Call Number:
Quarto 27 19 793B Copy 2
Collection Title:
Volume 2, opposite page 305. Memoirs of Count Grammont.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Henry Sidney, Earl of Romney; full-length, facing the viewer with his gaze directed downward and to the right; his boyish face topped with a black hat and framed by long, curly brown hair; wearing a tan coat with gold trim, red stockings, and a white cravat; a sword hangs from his left hip and a muff covers his hands
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image, on mounting page., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Bound in opposite page 305 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Hamilton, A. Memoirs of Count Grammont. London : S. and E. Harding, [1793?].
A caricature of a blind(?) man walking in profile to the right holding a bundle against his chest with one hand and a cane in the other. A long sword is sheathed at his side
Description:
Title, date, and artist attribution suggested by curator. and For further information, consult library staff.
Title devised by curator., Inscribed on verso, in unknown hand: "Bookcase.", Formerly housed as part of the SH Drawings collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Drawing of a bronze vase, urn-shaped with a base and stem and handles, kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. On the side of the vase is a scene in bas-relief, taken from an antique by Fiammingo, of five naked boys surrounding a long-haired calf(?). The vase was formerly part of the Harleian collection
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist's name written in brown ink by Horace Walpole in lower left corner of sheet., Dated by Horace Walpole in brown ink in lower right corner of sheet., and Mounted on page 151 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Bust of a woman wearing a castellated crown over her long curly locks
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Loose drawing removed from bound volume: A collection of prints contained in this collection after the sketches and drawings of the late celebrated G.B. Cipriani, Esqr. Lewis Walpole Library Folio 75 C495 789B.
Wash drawing of a bronze and marble bust of an unidentified young man, perhaps the Roman emperor Vespasian. This statue may have been kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Head and neck bronze the body of ivory
Description:
Title devised by curator; alternative title written in ink below image: The head and neck bronze the body of ivory., 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 180 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.
