"Bird's eye view of Somerset House and its garden and fountain from the Thames; the Folly, or Royal Diversion, a timber building on a barge, moored on the river; a coat of arms at the bottom of the sheet"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Maison de Somerset
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher and date of publication from that of the volume in which the print appears., Plate from: Britannia illustrata ... London : D. Mortier, 1707., and Plate numbered "6" in lower right corner.
View of the real-life Castle of Otranto in Italy. The gray structure is seen in the middle distance beyond a low stone wall, one branch of which extends towards the viewer in the right foreground. Blue-tinted mountains are visible in the far distance on either side of the castle. A green lawn occupies the rest of the foreground; a blue sky completes the top half of the image
Description:
Title from contemporary note in ink on strip of paper pasted on facing page of volume., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on death date of Richard Bull, who owned the volume in which this drawing is mounted., Another version of this drawing, presumably by John Carter, was also owned by Richard Bull. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 11., and Mounted before title page in Richard Bull's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. London : Printed for Tho. Lownds in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXV [1765].
Watercolor drawing of the real-life Castle of Otranto in Italy. The gray structure is seen in the middle distance beyond a low stone wall, one branch of which extends towards the viewer in the right foreground. Blue-tinted mountains are visible in the far distance on either side of the castle. A green lawn occupies the rest of the foreground; a blue sky strewn with white clouds completes the top half of the image
Description:
Title written in ink below image., 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., The original drawing by Willey Reveley, of which this is a copy, was kept by Horace Walpole in the Small Closet at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 255 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.
"Bird's eye view of St James's Palace looking across formal gardens towards the City of London; cavalcade with coaches advancing down the Mall on the right"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Saint James's House and Palais Royal de St. James
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher and date of publication from that of the volume in which the print appears., Plate from: Britannia illustrata ... London : D. Mortier, 1707., and Plate numbered "2" in lower right corner.
Volume 1, page 69. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in pencil in upper left corner., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 69 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
In four columns with title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by rules., Verse in four parts begins: "You lovers all draw near,", 'Part 1' precedes first line., Imprint below fourth column., Date supplied by cataloger., In this edition woodcuts from left to right depict a sailing ship near a castle and a woman seated in front of a column., Mounted on leaf 14. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane
Subject (Topic):
Sailing ships, Castles & palaces, Women, and Columns
Eight topographical views, without text, showing Blenheim Palace; London Bridge; Netley Abbey; Windsor Castle; Ragland Castle; Shakespeare's birthplace; St. Ethelbert Tower, Canterbury; and St. Vincent's Rocks, Bristol
Description:
Title from lettepress text on original wrappers., Some plates with veritical orientation, others horizontal., "A number of this work, containing four views, will be published regularly every fortnight"--Front wrapper, following statement of responsibility., Possibly all that was published of a proposed series of plates and accompanying text., Perhaps produced as a specimen for booksellers; on the back wrapper, the publisher requests that "book and printsellers will forward orders for this work as early as possible for their subscribers, as they will be entitled to the earliest and best impressions.", The prints "Netley Abbey", "Ragland Caste", "St. Ethelbert Tower Canterbury" and "St. Vincents Rocks Clifton", with imprint statement: Printed by N. Whitlock, 14 Paternoster Row., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published for the proprietors, by B. Steill, 14, Paternoster-Row and sold by all book and printsellers
Watercolor drawing of Château de Grignan in the Drôme department in southeastern France. The structure, a former medieval castle and Renaissance palace, sits atop a hit in the middle distance. Houses dot the base of the hill and extend to the right and left of it. A church is seen in the foreground on the right; a man on horseback rides in the center foreground, and a carriage pulled by four horses follows behind him on the left. Mountains are visible in the far distance; blue-gray clouds fill the sky above
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image on mounting page, in Richard Bull's hand., 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 66 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.
"View of the north east front of the White Tower, from the Great Court, the Tower partly obscured by a large tree in foreground to right, a woman and child below tree, elegantly dressed figures on the left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802].
