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1.
Lady Elizabeth Lee [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1765 and 1837]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 3 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1095); seated whole-length to right in garden, eyes to front, wearing voluminous dress and resting on ermine cloak on stone slab at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication and artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Ii,3.79., Mounted on leaf numbered 7 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lady Elizabeth Lee [graphic].

2.
The parents scheme, or, Marriage consultation [graphic]

Creator:
Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1765 and 1775]
Call Number:
765.00.00.88+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A Dutch interior with two Puritan men asking the parents of Saartje to marry her to Reinier Adriaansz. On the left in the background a young girl eavesdrops at the door. On the wall is a portrait of a girl and a seascape with two sailing vessels. On the right windows with curtains and another frames painting (or mirror?). A scene from the comedy "Jan Claasz. of de Gewaande Dienstmaagd".
Alternative Title:
Marriage consultation
Description:
Title engraved below image, with quotation on either side: Well, quoath her parents, be it so: Sukey was ready months ago. Had but an husband offer'd: Eighteen my friends, a ticklish time: Let Johnny take her in her prime ... The very thought my rage alarms, Shall Summer marry Winter., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., After the 1738 pastel by Troost in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, inv. no. 180., Imperfect: sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt Sayer, Print & Map Seller, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Marriage proposals, Parents, and Puritans
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The parents scheme, or, Marriage consultation [graphic]

3.
Miss Crieuse and her sister [graphic]

Creator:
Brookshaw, Richard, 1736- printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1765 and 1773]
Call Number:
Portraits C927 no. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Misses Crewe after Reynolds (Mannings 450); three-quarter length, standing, with Elizabeth on the right, holding a flower basket in one hand and embracing her sister, Emma, on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miss Crewes and her sister
Description:
Title from text below image. and Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1840,0808.59.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhil
Subject (Name):
Crewe, Emma, and Hinchliffe, Elizabeth Crewe,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Crieuse and her sister [graphic]

4.
Barbara Countess of Coventry [graphic]

Creator:
Spicer, Henry, 1742 or 1743-1804, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1765 and 1771]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait after Reynolds; three-quarter length to front, head turned in three-quarter profile to left, her left arm leaning resting on her robes, right hand holding her left wrist; clouds and pillar behind.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1833,0515.15., Mounted on leaf numbered 43 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Coventry, Barbara, Countess,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Barbara Countess of Coventry [graphic]

5.
The seamstress [graphic]

Creator:
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1768]
Call Number:
765.00.00.89+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image. and Richard Purcell signed his works, among other names, as Charles Corbutt. See Bénézit's Dictionaire critique et documentaire des peintres, ... v. 11, p. 302.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fireplaces, Sewing, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The seamstress [graphic]

6.
Lord Cardross [graphic]

Creator:
Finlayson, John, 1730-1776, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliamant, Novr. 22d, 1765.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 57. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 585); half-length turned slightly to right, head and eyes to left, in Van Dyck costume; pillar behind; state with publication line, before final alteration of title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., "Sold at the Golden Lamp in Berwick Street, price 5s."--Lower right corner of plate., Mounted on page 57 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and "Earl of Buchan" added in ink below title, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lord Cardross [graphic]

7.
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 hand; a crocodile on the sand, a European ship at sea and three figures gathered around a hammock set between palms under a canopy on rocks in the upper right; from a set of the four quarters of the world; republished state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from first line of verses engraved beneath image., Verses continue: ... what if by conquest we possess thy shore, thy savages reveng'd should less repine, since we're the slaves of thy corrupting ore., Second state, with altered imprint statement; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.570., See Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, volume 3, page 941 for mention of an earlier state of this series of four plates "Quarters of the World", "Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden Head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street"., One of a series of four allegorical prints, the others depicting Africa, Asia, and Europe., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge and with thin margins on the other three edges.
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]

8.
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 at their work amongst the crops to the right, elegant ladies and gentlemen strolling through the scene with a man sketching to the left, several boats and ships on the calm sea beyond, gulls amongst the clouds above. The Royal Arms below
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Titled 'A Perspective View of Brighthelmstone, and of the Sea coast as far as the Isle of Wight: by Jas. Lambert, engraved by Canot.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
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]

9.
Tit for tat; or the merry wives of Wapping

Published / Created:
[1765?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Merry wives of Wapping
Description:
Caption title above first two columns., Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "All you that delight in a frolicksome song.", In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the third and fourth columns each contain a woodcut; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 54. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at the printing office in Stonecutter-street, Fleet Market
Subject (Name):
Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743.
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, Adultery, Cuckolds, Ballads, English, Husband and wife, and Women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tit for tat; or the merry wives of Wapping

10.
The country girl's policy, or, the Cocknies outwitted. To a pleasant new tune

Published / Created:
[1765?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
The country girl's policy: or, the Cockney outwitted and Cocknies outwitted to a pleasant new tune
Description:
Verse - "All you that are to mirth inclin'd". - In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Imprint below the third and fourth columns., Date from ESTC., Mounted on leaf 21. 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 at the printing office in Stonecutter Street, Fleet Market
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Infants, Geese, and Country life
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The country girl's policy, or, the Cocknies outwitted. To a pleasant new tune

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