A sketch of the coat of arms of Sir Walter Mauny (Manny) with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
A sketch of the coat of arms of Thomas Earl of Warwick with a brief biographical note in Horace Walpole's hand below the image. Numbered "p. 30" in upper left corner
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist unknown. Formerly attributed to George Vertue., From a group of images thought to have been originally drawn by John Rous and traced by an unidentified artist for Horace Walpole; later engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of SH, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
Subject (Name):
Warwick, Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of, approximately 1339-1401.
A light infantryman dressed in full uniform executes a motion with his flintlock musket. The caption from the published plate reads: ... the right hand slides back to the small of the stock holding it with the three last fingers & keeping the cartridge upright between the forefinger & thumb
Description:
Title from print later published in a volme by Rowlandson., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
A collection of architectural drawings, mostly by J.W. Müntz, two with a questionable attribution and with two engravings, in watercolor, wash, and pen
Description:
Title assigned by repository., Bound in brown library cloth case with label: Drawings by J.H. Müntz., and "Section of Lord Charlemont's Egyptian room", matted and shelved in separate box.
Six drawings mounted on a single leaf disbound from a 19th century album. One of the pencil drawings shows a vase that was in the Long Gallery at Strawberry Hill; the drawing is possibly by Paul Sandby sketched for his drawing of the view of the Long Gallery. Two other drawings in pen and ink with wash depict vases or urns. Two other pen and ink drawings with wash at the top of the sheet depict architectural ornaments, though one may be a design for jewelry. At the bottom of the sheet is a drawing of a sarchophagus, in pen and ink with pencil; on the front panel is a drawing in pencil of city view, a classical-style building on the left, a forum in the middle, and two columns on the right. The drawing of the sarchophagus is tentatively attributed to James Gibbs
Description:
One of four sheets from a 19th century album. To view other sheets, see Lewis Walpole Library: Drawings Un58 nos. 73, 74, and 75., Note below image, written in pencil in unknown hand, "The vase in long gallery, now in Waddesdon Coll. Brit. Mus, perhaps i Sandby/or his [ ] of long gallery. ms.", Numbered 706 on sheet., and Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Architectural decorations & ornaments, Art collections, Sarcophagi, Urns, and Vases
Volume 1, page 170.1. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a sixteenth-century document, with a decorative design and coat of arms on top and sides and armorial seals below. The decorative initial "T" contains a figure with a crown. The text itself is written in brown ink and is signed "C.B. alias Gartier" in the lower right
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Tipped in at page 170.1 in volume 1 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Subject (Topic):
Kings, Helmets, Coats of arms, and Seals (Insignia)
Nine drawings, four copies of drawings of limnings in the Harleian copy of John Lydgate's Life of King Edmund and five drawings, four on vellum, from Froissart's Chronicle, mounted on leaves and bound in old vellum. Most drawings with contemporary captions on versos
Description:
Title from Hazen catalogue., Date based on date of acquisition of the original manuscript (Harley 2278) by Robert Harley: "16 die Augusti A. D. 1720"., and Now mounted on leaves in an old vellum binding. Bookplate 1. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):
Edmund, King of East Anglia, 841-870., Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, and Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?
A lady in quasi-military dress rides a sorry horse on the road to Coxheath. She is followed by her husband, dressed as a militia officer for auxilliary forces that frequently encamped on Cox Heath. A dog trots panting at the side of the group
Alternative Title:
Sir Horatio Mann returning from Linton to Barham Court having lost his way, is escorted by a farmer's wife returning from Maidstone market
Description:
Title devised by cataloger based on title of published print based on this drawing., Date based on publication date of James Bretherton's etching., A pen and ink copy of an etching after Bunbury., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Signs (Notices), Military uniforms, British, Militias, and Dogs
Drawing of a stoneware tankard made by Francis Place and owned by Horace Walpole
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., 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 43 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., With Richard Bull's note in ink, below image on mounting page: This cup is of Mr. Place's china, and of the same size as the original., and With wash-line mount. For further information, consult library staff.
Pair of wash drawings of the curfew, or couvre-feu, from Mr. Gostling's collection that was kept by Horace Walpole in the fireplace of the Library at Strawberry Hill. The drawing on the left shows the object with the opening facing towards the viewer; the drawing on the right shows the opening turned to the right, allowing some of the decoration on the side to be seen
Description:
Title devised by curator., 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 together on page 98 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.
