Drawing of the effigies of a unidentified knight and his lady
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 Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
Five men, heads and shoulders only. Three of the men face each other. The man on the top left wears a nightcap and pince-nez on the tip of his long, hooked nose. The man on the top right looks down and wears the garb of a clergyman with a bishop's mitre on his head. The man on the bottom left wears a wig, a high stock and jabot and has a long nose. The man in the bottom center looks cross-eyed at the other men. The man on the bottom right has a very bulbous nose and face
Alternative Title:
Good morning to your nightcap
Description:
Two heads on left were copied for a print: Good Morning to your Nightcap. See Lewis Walpole Library impression (786.07.07.01)., Inscription in graphite pencil on verso: Original drawing for 'Good Morning to Your Nightcap' Pubd by S.W. Fores July 7, 1786., and Henry Kingsbury, British painter and engraver, fl. 1775-1804 (see Brisith Museum online catalogue).
A drawing of the heads of three men and one woman. In the upper left is the head of a bearded man, facing left in profile, with identification in Greek letters written below and dated above on the left edge "May 29th". In the upper right is the head of a woman, looking downward and turned slightly right and dated "30th". The bottom two heads are men in profile looking left, the one on the right is bearded and the one on the left clean-shaven; the dates "June 1st" and "1st" are written to the left and right
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Statement of responsibility written in ink at bottom of sheet., With pencil annotation "1732" in a later hand at top of sheet., and Bound in after page 128 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A catalogue of engravers ... Strawberry Hill, 1765.
Drawing of Francis Cleyn, formerly Franz Klein, painter and tapestry designer born in German and raised at the Danish court. After travelling in Italy, he moved to England in 1623 and worked in the Court of Charles I.
Alternative Title:
Francis Cleyn
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Cleyn in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 127., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Frederic in search of Hippolita enters her oratory only to recoil in horror at the sight of a specter wrapped in a hermit's cowl. The specter rests its hand on a book laid open on the altar above which hangs a crucifix. Behind them, two shelves built into the wall are filled with books and an ink well with two feather pens
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Date based on Horace Walpole's letter (dated 22 February 1796) to Bertie Greatheed's father in which he admires his son's four drawings that were inspired by his reading of The Castle of Otranto. All four drawings are bound in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of The Castle of Otranto (Lewis Walpole Library 49 3729).
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, artist
Published / Created:
[1776?]
Call Number:
Drawings L893 no. 2 Box D135
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Graphite pencil drawing: a young slender man, protruding chin turned upwards, walks in profile to the right. The man wears a small cap over long frowzled hair and carries a walking-stick in the crook of his right arm
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from on print by Loutherbourg and published by William Holland: From Eaton which was based on this drawing., and Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, British painter and Royal Academician, 1740-1812.
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, artist
Published / Created:
[1776?]
Call Number:
Drawings L893 no. 1 Box D135
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Graphite pencil drawing of a black woman wearing a dress with sylized and elongated pleats and ruffles extending from some hemlines. Her bonnet is exagerated to the point of obscuring her eyes
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on the etching by Loutherbourg and published by William Holland which was based on this drawing., and Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, British painter and Royal Academician, 1740-1812.
A watercolor depicting a group of five men in a pub or alehouse, four of whom are sitting at a table on high back benches; each has a tankard in front of him. They laugh in response to one of their number reading from a newspaper "County Chronicle."
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Cf. Lewis Walpole Library Drawings Un58 no. 60 for a watercolor, probably from the same artist, that continues the 'news' theme.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Newspapers, Laughter, Smiling, Taverns (Inns), and Drinking vessels
Title devised by curator., Inscriptions: Scale drawn in below image., Artist's name, possibly in his hand, recto lower left corner: Robt Adam Archtitect 1767., Inscription on verso, unidentified hand: H Walpole Esq., Two ownership stamps in red, one on recto and the other on the verso: Initials "A.C." in a rectangle., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
