Studies of two couples and two men, most with caricatured faces. One of the couples is dancing (?); the other is shown with the woman sitting on the man's lap, he with a lewd grimace on his face
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Thomas Rowlandson., and For further information, consult library staff.
Volume 2, page 404.1. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of twenty armorial shields arranged in four rows, decorated images of animals including lions rampant or passant, a griffin rampant, a fish, a greyhound, or an eagle; other decorative elements include a helmet, three chalices, a fleur-de-lis, a Tudor rose, and a carbuncle
Description:
Title devised by curator., 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 Mounted on page 404.1 in volume 2 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.
Tentative identification of Fox, Sheridan, Moira, Sir John Sinclair, and Sir George Shuckburgh in chairs, leaning against the sides of bunks in a ship, all sleeping or being ill
Alternative Title:
Margate hoy
Description:
Title from Draper Hill; alternative title from pencil inscription on verso: A Margate hoy. and Date from Draper Hill, who suggests that the drawing is a preliminary for one of the illustrations for the abandoned de luxe edition of Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835, and Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804
Wash drawing depicting several ships just offshore. Three men in a small boat row towards a ship that looks to have run aground; a man stands on the sandbar(?) beside the incapacitated ship with his arm raised
Alternative Title:
Gale
Description:
Title from local catalog card; alternative title from the print after which the drawing was made., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Drawn after a print entitled "A gale," engraved by P.C. Canot after a painting by van de Velde, which was published by John Boydell on 1 November 1773. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0609.1656., Date of production from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso: Charles Gore 1781 from a print after an original by Vandevelde in the possession of Mr. Pratt, engrav'd by Canot 1773., Formerly laid in at page 103 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 to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Wash drawing depicting several ships just offshore. Three men in a small boat row towards a ship that looks to have run aground; a man stands on the sandbar(?) beside the incapacitated ship with his arm raised
Alternative Title:
Gale
Description:
Title from local catalog card; alternative title from the print after which the drawing was made., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Drawn after a print entitled "A gale," engraved by P.C. Canot after a painting by van de Velde, which was published by John Boydell on 1 November 1773. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0609.1656., Date of production from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso: Charles Gore 1781 from a print after an original by Vandevelde in the possession of Mr. Pratt, engrav'd by Canot 1773., Formerly laid in at page 103 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 to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
A drawing showing the side elevation for Sir Thomas Seabright's farmhouse Beechwood in Herfordshire which was never executed according to Horace Walpole's note on the other drawing included in the album for this project
Alternative Title:
Design (not executed) of a farmhouse for Sir Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertforshire
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on creation date of Horace Walpole's album. One of two drawings for the farmhouse included in the album., Watermark (partial) left edge, in the middle of the sheet: top of crest., and Formerly mounted on leaf 54 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Sir Edward Walpole (1706-1784) was the fourth child and second son born to Robert Walpole (1676-1745), chancellor of the Exchequer and first prime minister of Great Britain, and his wife Catherine Shorter (1782-1737). His younger brother was the author and antiquarian collector Horace Walpole (1717-1797). Edward Walpole graduated from Eton (1718) and King’s College, Cambridge (1725) before becoming master of pleas in the Office of the Exchequer in 1727 and clerk of the pells, a lifetime appointment, when his older brother Robert resigned from that position in 1739. Walpole also served in Parliament from 1730 until 1768 representing in succession Lostwithiel and Great Yarmouth and became a Knight of the Bath in 1753. With his common-law wife Dorothy Clement (1715?-1739) he was the father of one son and three daughters. Sir Edward Walpole died on January 12, 1784; he was buried at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor., Unknown artist., Miniature set in bracelet clasp decorated with brightwork, with a fixed flange on the left and a removable slide on the right., and For further provenance information, see the custodial history note in the Guide to the Sir Edward Walpole and Dorothy Clement Family Papers (LWL MSS 37).
Portrait of Sir Ralph Abercromby after John Hoppner. Abercromby is half-length directed slightly to right, looking away to left, right-gloved hand at his waist; he wears a military uniform with epaulettes, sash, star, and a white stock
Alternative Title:
Sir Ralph Abercrombie
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on execution of John Hoppner painting., Copy of oil painting by John Hoppner, ca. 1798., and For further information, consult library staff.
King George III is standing with a woman holding a parasol (possibly Herschel's sister and assistant Caroline) observing two men operating a massive 40 ft. reflecting telescope suspended in a complex framework of wooden supports, cables, pulleys, and wheels
Description:
Title, date, and artist supplied by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Slough (England)
Subject (Name):
Herschel, William, 1738-1822. and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Reflecting telescopes, Telescopes, Astronomical instruments, and Astronomy
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1792]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 34 Box D210
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two rows of women quarter-length and in profile, some cradling cats in their arms, with captions inscribed in ink near each figure: This is my Queensbury the finest Tom Cat in England; I'm going to see Arabella's catery she had two charming sitters yesterday morning; God bless me these Irish captains are terrible men; Eighteen delightful little creatures I'm told what a sweet ...
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Attributed to Woodward., and Sheet possibly trimmed from a larger design for a border.
