A view of the west front of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill, as seen from across the road. On the left a man on horseback rides away from the viewer. In the distance a man walks away from the door in the wall around the villa. The foreground on the right is cast in shadow
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attributed to William Pars., and One of two similar watercolors by Pars in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Estates
A light infrantryman dressed in full uniform executes a drill with his flintlock. The caption from the published plate reads: ... the right hand is brought sharp to seize the flintlock at the top of the left shoulder keeping the body square & elbows close
Description:
Title from print based on this drawing and later published in a volme by Rowlandson. and For further information, consult library staff.
Copy of a seventeenth-century engraved portrait of William Somner, an antiquarian scholar and author. The portait is enclosed in an oval revealing an unfinished scrollwork pattern
Alternative Title:
Mr. Somner
Description:
Title devised by curator., An unfinished copy of a 1693 engraving by Michael Burghers., On verso is another drawing: Effigies Gulielmi Bagwell : aetat. 66 ano. Dom. 1659., Two drawings on one sheet, recto and verso., and For further information, consult library staff.
Volume 2, page 24. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A Punch-like figure is shown standing to front, with head in profile to the left, holding a paper in each hand. A goat stands beside him on the right; a pole with a sign 'To Wynnstay' (lettered backwards) is on the left, pointing to the right. A design for an admission ticket for the theater at Wynnstay, the private theater of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn
Alternative Title:
To Wynnstay
Description:
Title and date from those supplied in the British Museum catalog for the print made after this drawing., Attribution to Bunbury based on inclusion of the drawing in a volume of the artist's work., Mounted with a related drawing and a print on page 24 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Original design, with image and letters in reverse, for no. 7069A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
A man holds a lady's hand as she descends a flight of stairs overlooking a pond. To the left in the distance are shown two figures in a row boat on the water
Description:
Inscription in pencil on verso: Cut mount to fit shape of inlay piece., Robert Dighton, English draughtsman, 1752-1814., For further information, consult library staff., and Watermark.
Title from dealer's catalog., Signed and dated A.A. Trail. 1832 in lower left., and Inscribed on verso in unknown hand: No. 1, Youngest son of the Honble Thos Erskine by Ann Agnes Trail.