"Heading to engraved verses: 'Sung by Mr Incledon, in his Popular Entertainment of Hospitality.' A countryman stands full face, reflectively leaning on his spade. Behind is a rustic scene with a cottage. A dog guards his master's coat. The first and last lines: 'Come Measter I be's going to sing, - At least I be's going to try, ... Some dig for ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., One line of text directly below title: Sung by Mr. Incledon in his Popular Entertainment of Hospitality., Twenty four lines of verse arranged in three numbered columns above imprint statement: Come Measter I be's going to sing, at least be's going to try ..., and Plate numbered '451' in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 16, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A red-nosed 'Cit' sits on a rock along a small waterfall on a stream outside a cottage, fishing. He grins as he holds up a fish that he has caught, the caption below conveying his thought: "Do you call that nothing?" The joke is that his bucket of fish that hangs off a tree branch next to him has been overturned and all the rest of the fish he has caught spill back into the stream
Drawing of the door and front facade of the cottage on the grounds of Strawberry Hill. The gable roof portico is decorated with the letter "H" followed by three cross crosslets and then the letter "W", as well as with a star near the peak of the gable. Two rectangles (windows?) with images of tools flank the doorway; a short fence with a quatrefoil design is in the foreground
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written below image on mounting page, in Horace Walpole's hand., Date of production based on John Chute's death date., and Mounted on page 176 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 (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Doors & doorways, Fences, Facades, and Dwellings
Elevation of a Cottage for the Honorable Horace Walpole, near Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title at top of sheet, scale drawn in below image., Artist's name inscribed by Horace Walpole, recto lower left corner: Robt Adam Architect 1766., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: (London Sale, Lot 1248): Ditto [drawings] Views of Strawberry Hill and of the Villa of Lady Diana Beauclerc at Twickenham, by J. Barrow, 1789, and 4 designs for a Cottage, etc. at Strawberry Hill, by Robert Adams, architect, 1767, etc."
A view of the entrance to Horace Walpole's house Strawberry Hill and the 1759 wing shows a servant emerging from the studded front door on his way to the kitchen via the Little Cloister. There was no internal communication between the hall and kitchen on the ground floor
Description:
Title engraved below image., In upper right engraved above image: "Vol.II. P.400.", Plate originally engraved for Horace Walpole's 1784 edition of the Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Volume and plate number added for the 1798 edition of the Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London : G.G. and J. Robinson. 1798-1825., and Partial watermark visible: "1 7".
Publisher:
G.G. and J. Robinson
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A view of the entrance to Horace Walpole's house Strawberry Hill and the 1759 wing shows a servant emerging from the studded front door on his way to the kitchen via the Little Cloister. There was no internal communication between the hall and kitchen on the ground floor
Description:
Title etched below image., First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner., Publication information from that of the volume for which the print was made., Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Mounted on page 26 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., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 25.7 x 20.3 cm, on sheet 28.3 x 23.2 cm, and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Inscription on verso, in ink: "Entrance of the villa at Strawberry Hill. E.E. 1781.", Signed and dated lower right corner of image: "E.E. 1781"., Numbered in pencil on verso: "No. J"., Note in pencil in unknown hand: "The print of this in the Description, 1784 has slight differences: pot with shrub missing, includes more at right, + top. This is surely Edward's original watercolor for the famous print however.", Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Title written in unknown hand at bottom left corner of sheet, below image., Formerly titled in repository as: "North front.", Unknown artist., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Note on verso: There is nothing to show when this was done. It is almost parallel with the "North front" in Bedford's Description (p. 20), 1784 which says "Barlow del et sculp.", and For further information, consult library staff.
A young woman carries a basket of chickens in one hand and a brace of fowl in her other hand as she sets out to the market. She looks out at the viewer as she is watched by a woman in the doorway of a cottage on the right. She is accompanied by a litle girl who also holds a chicken. Another large basket sits on the ground on the right opposite a chicken with her three little chicks
Description:
Title etched below image. and Publisher's stamp in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Published July 26, 1792, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Volume 2, page 25. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 39. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman stands in front of a cliff, facing right, wearing a dress and a hat; a stringed instrument, which she grasps with both hands, is slung around her shoulders with a ribbon or strap; the roof of a cottage, some trees, and the side of a mountain are seen behind her on the right
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 39 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on laid paper ; sheet 37.3 x 29.0 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 10th, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Peasants, Clothing & dress, Stringed instruments, and Dwellings
