Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men stand in the foreground conversing. The man on the left holds a mug out in front of him, while the man on the right smokes a pipe; two dogs playfully run past the men. A house is visible in the background on the right, and the wall of another structure is seen on the far left
Alternative Title:
Mr. Slaughter and Mr. Heeltap talking of the state affairs
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink below image., Signed in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Date from local card catalog record., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Subject (Topic):
Conversation, Drinking vessels, Pipes (Smoking), Dogs, and Dwellings
Title written on verso in contemporary, unidentified hand, partially loss of text. "No. C"., Signed and dated in image, bottom left: "WI.B D 1780"., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Unidentified artist., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
A view of Newstead Abbey as seen from the front beyond the surrounding stone wall. Two boys, one leaning on the wall the other sitting on it, watch as a coach pulls around the circular drive, in the center of which stands a fountain
Description:
Title and artist from ms. note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., Inscribed by artist in lower right corner of image: "J.C. Barrow.", Ms. note in pencil, in an unidentified hand, on mount below image: "In the summer of 1798, B. [i.e. Byron] took possession of Newstead Abbey. Drawing was bought at the sale of Horace Walpole's collection, Strawberry Hill, in the year 1842.", Probably part of the collection sold at the StrawberryHill sale, viii, 154, dispersed as described in A.T. Hazen's Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3678., and Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Nottinghamshire.
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 and Newstead Abbey.
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Abbeys, Dwellings, and Historic buildings
"A young woman registers grief outside a cottage (right), in which a woman is spinning. She is watched by two fashionably dressed passers-by. The verses end: 'I am sure it is not my fault, That I must die an old Maid.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Companion print to: No rest in the grave, or, The second appearance of Miss Bailey's ghost, One line of text above design: The music publish'd by Skillern & Challoner, 25 Greek Street, Soho., Two lines of text directly below title: (Intended as a companion to the second appearance of Miss Bailey's Ghost, just publish'd) sung by Mr. Jordan, with unbounded applause at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane., Twenty lines of verse arranged in three columns in lower portion of plate: Last night the dogs did bark, I went to the window to see..., and Plate numbered '437' in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augt. 1, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Spinning apparatus, Single women, and Birdcages
Watercolor drawing of Little Strawberry Hill as viewed from the northeast. The house at center is mostly obscured by trees, with a lawn extending from the front of the house to the left. Caged hedges with hedge arches border a path on the near side of the lawn, and two women walk on the path towards the house. A man pushing a wheelbarrow stands in the right foreground, and next to him sits a girl with a basket of flowers
Alternative Title:
Northeast view of the above
Description:
Titled in Thomas Kirgate's hand below image on mounting page; "the above" in title refers to the drawing entited Cliveden near Strawberry-Hill ..., which is mounted above this drawing on the same page., Attribution to Joseph Charles Barrow from local catalog card., Date based on that of the drawing mounted above this drawing on the same page., and Mounted on page 5 (formerly D) of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Berry, Mary, 1763-1852, and Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Estates
"View of the front of the abbey from across a lawn with trees, the building castellated, with spirelets, dominated by the octagonal tower in the centre, the huge doors shut."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Northwest view of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire
Description:
Title from text below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Printed by N. Chater & Co. & published by J. Buckler, Bermondsey, Surrey
Plate numbered '335' below design on left., Four columns of song verse below title: O dear! What can the matter be? Dear, dear! What can the matter be? O dear, what can the matter be, Johnney's so long at the fair; He promis'd to buy me a pari of blue stockings, A pair of new garders that cost him but twopence, He promis'd to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons, To tie up my bony brown hair. ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England1790-1800.
Subject (Topic):
Accessories (Clothing & dress), Clothing & dress, and Dwellings
An elderly man and woman are sitting in armchairs in front of a cottage, each smoking a pipe. The woman holds a glass, the man a pitcher. They are surrounded by farm animals. A beehive, a birdcage and birdhouses are in the background
Description:
Title from item., Two columns of verse below image on either side of title: Old Darby with Joan by his side, you've oft times regarded with wonder ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Livestock, Birdcages, Birdhouses, Beehives, Chairs, and Windmills
