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1.
[Landscape struck by lightning] [art original]

Creator:
Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:
[1754]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3585 leaf 5b Box 1
Collection Title:
Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A design by Bentley of a landscape with a large house on a hill (left) high above the shore on a stormy night with waves and and trees blown by heavy winds. Lightning from the right stretches across the sky, striking the house. In the light showing b...
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Jersey (Channel Islands)
Subject (Topic):
Coastlines, Lightning, and Storms
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Landscape struck by lightning] [art original]

2.
Corse [graphic]

Creator:
Bonnor, Thomas, printmaker
Published / Created:
January 9th, 1790.
Call Number:
Folio 633 780 En58
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A landscape with a view of Corse across the water
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published by Richd. Bigland
Subject (Geographic):
Gloucestershire (England) and England.
Subject (Topic):
Churches and Coastlines
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Corse [graphic]

3.
A perspective view of Brighthelmston, and of the sea coast as far as the Isle of Wight Inscribed

Creator:
Canot, Pierre Charles, 1710-1777, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1765]
Call Number:
Drawer 765.00.00.95
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of Brighton, the town with numerous houses and other buildings, St. Nicholas's Church on the hill above the town to the right, the coast stretching away in the distance, windmills in the fields to the left with haywains drawn by oxen and reapers ...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, & sold by Jas. Lambert, painter, at Lewes in Sussex, and Robert Sayer, map and printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Brighton (England), England., England, and Brighton.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Cityscapes, Churches, Coastlines, Meadows, Windmills, and Church buildings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A perspective view of Brighthelmston, and of the sea coast as far as the Isle of Wight Inscribed (by permission) to His Royal Highness William Henry Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Earl of Connaught of the Kingdom of Ireland, Ranger of Hampton Court Park, and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter - by His Royal Highnesses most obedt. & devoted servt. James Lambert / [graphic]

4.
A sketch at Brighton [graphic].

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:
[9 May 1822]
Call Number:
Maidment H437 no. 1 Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A scene on the Steyne, with the Pavilion as a background, and (left) the sea, with cliffs. Lord Conyngham, with a hideous profile, walks (right to left) with a lady on each arm. On the left arm is Lady Conyngham, as broad as she is tall, looking over...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 9th May 1822 by S.W. Fores, Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Huntly, Elizabeth, Marchioness of, 1799-1839, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Clothing & dress, Bonnets, Shawls, Coastlines, and Official residences
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A sketch at Brighton [graphic].

5.
Upnor Castle [graphic]

Creator:
Livesay, Richard, -1823?, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[27 November 1781]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 27th 1781 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarth's Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,, Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734,, Scott, Samuel, approximately 1710-1772,, and Upnor Castle (Kent, England)
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Castles & palaces, Coastlines, and Ships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Upnor Castle [graphic]

6.
America! of wealth thou modern mine ... [graphic]

Creator:
Moore, James, active approximately 1761-1763, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1765]
Call Number:
765.00.00.02.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two native Americans wearing fronded head-dresses and armed with arrows, on a sea-shore, one kneeling on a rock with one hand propped on cones from a palm-tree, the other standing clothed in a goat's skin, gesturing out to left with an ingot in one h...
Description:
Title from first line of verses engraved beneath image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
North America,
Subject (Topic):
Indigenous peoples, Headdresses, Arrows, Coastlines, Palms, Crocodiles, Ships, and Hammocks (Furniture)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > America! of wealth thou modern mine ... [graphic]

7.
[Drawings compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family] [art original].

Creator:
Mordaunt family, collector
Published / Created:
[between 1815 and 1829]
Call Number:
724 815M
Image Count:
34
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An album of illustrations by various artists, probably compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family. The album contains views of coastlines and ports including Port Eliot, home of Mordaunt friends the Eliots of Port Eliot, in the Parish of St. Germans,...
Description:
Charles Mordaunt (1771-1823), 8th Baronet, was a member of Parliament representing the constituency of Warwickshire. A Catholic and Whig, he married Marianne, daughter of William Holbech of Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire in 1807; the couple lived at W...
Subject (Geographic):
England, Greece, and Switzerland
Subject (Topic):
Ruins and Coastlines
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family] [art original].

8.
Iohn Bull making observations on the comet [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
10th Novr., 1807.
Call Number:
807.11.10.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The comet has the profile head of Napoleon wearng a plumed bicorne; it rushes up from the left. towards the sun, the profile head of George III, much irradiated. John Bull, a carbuncled 'cit', stoops low to look through a telescope on a tripod pointi...
Alternative Title:
John Bull making observations on the comet
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Coastlines, Comets, Ships, Sun, and Telescopes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Iohn Bull making observations on the comet [graphic]

9.
[Ships near rocky coast] [art original]

Creator:
Winchelsea, Charles Finch, Earl of, 1672-1712, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1712?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 50. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Topic):
Ships, Rowboats, Coastlines, and Shipwrecks
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Ships near rocky coast] [art original]

12.
Sea side sketches [graphic].

Published / Created:
1829.
Call Number:
829.00.00.28+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Seaside sketches
Description:
Title from text below images.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Coastlines, Carriages & coaches, Donkeys, and Ships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sea side sketches [graphic].

13.
The European state jockies running a heat for the ballance of power with various designs adapted

Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament 25 March 1740 [that is 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 33. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the jockeying for position of the European powers in early 1740. A race-course on the sea-shore with a variety of animals and riders representing different countries: first comes Cardinal Fleury (France) falling from his fox which has stumb...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, 1685-1740, Neuhof, Théodore-Antoine, baron de, 1690-1756, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1697-1745, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, and Coram, Thomas, 1668?-1751
Subject (Topic):
Coastlines, Ships, Riding, Racing, Foxes, Devil, Scales, Wolves, Lions, Bears, Elephants, Daggers & swords, Monkeys, Horses, Swine, Clergy, Crowns, Bulldogs, and Shields
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The European state jockies running a heat for the ballance of power with various designs adapted for the year 1740 / [graphic]

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