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1. A new deceptio visûs [graphic]

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before 1760]
Call Number:: 765.00.00.73 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two further panels, one with a coin of George II, the other lettered 'A new Deceptio Visus. Engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, in London' [part of address erased].
Alternative Title:: New deceptio visus, or, A guinea for a shilling
Description:: Title from print in upper right., Date based on publisher's years of activity at 53 Fleet Street., Later state of a print, a composite of images and verses to form a greeting card, folded for mailing as advertisement for Bickham's engravings. With docket title: A new Deceptio Visus, or A guinea for a shilling : being a curious medley, by way of letter / engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, at his drawing school, at Hatten Garden near Holburn, London. See impression in the Library of Congress, PC 3 - 1729 - Near deceptio visus., See also working proof (?) at the British Museum online catalogue, no. 1980,U.861., Description based on imperfect impression; impression lacks plate with docket title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:: Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):: Greece.
Subject (Name):: Dennis, John, 1657-1734., Congreve, William, 1670-1729., Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
Subject (Topic):: Pegasus, Coins, Columns, Musical instruments, Puzzles, Ruins, and Wells
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A new deceptio visûs [graphic]

2. 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]

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]

3. A representation of a coal-pit when working [graphic]

Published / Created:: [January 1765]
Call Number:: 765.01.00.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A diagram showing the cross-section of a coal mine and the use of horses to raise coal from a pit
Description:: Title engraved below image., Plate from: London magazine. Or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, v. 34 (January 1765)., "Engraved for the London magazine."--Above image., and Partial watermark along the right edge.
Publisher:: R. Baldwin
Subject (Topic):: Coal mining and Horses
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A representation of a coal-pit when working [graphic]

4. A representation of the several humerous heads exhibited in the Lecture on Heads, etched in caricatura [graphic]

Published / Created:: [1765]
Call Number:: 765.00.00.06
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Representation of the several humorous heads
Description:: Title from text above image., Publication date inferred from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Universal museum, and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure ... London : Publish'd monthly by I. Payne, 1765, v. I, page 455., Another version of No. 4113 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Lectures: Lecture 'On Heads' by George Stevens, 1710-1784 -- Busts: Alexander the Great -- Busts: Cherokee chief -- Trades: quacks -- Arms: coats of arms -- Emblems: cuckold's horns -- Jesters -- Personfication: Arts -- Monuments -- Funerals., and Watermark: royal cipher(?)
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A representation of the several humerous heads exhibited in the Lecture on Heads, etched in caricatura [graphic]

5. 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]

6. 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]

7. Charles Saunders Esq. Vice Adml. of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's fleet & Lieutt. General of His Majesty's marine forces / [graphic]

Creator:: McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1760?]
Call Number:: 760.00.00.107+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of the imprint statement., and Questionable publication date based on entry in Goodwin.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: British
Subject (Name):: Saunders, Charles, Sir, ca.1713-1775,
Subject (Topic):: Military uniforms
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Charles Saunders Esq. Vice Adml. of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's fleet & Lieutt. General of His Majesty's marine forces / [graphic]

8. Cibber [graphic]

Creator:: Bannerman, Alexander, approximately 1730- printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1765]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of Caius Gabriel Cibber, half-length, in an oval, slightly turned to the right, holding a pair of compasses in his hand, dressed in a black doublet with a wide collar and plain cuffs and with his hair scrolling to his shoulders, the title on the plinth below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from text in image., After a watercolor drawing by Christian Richter that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Publication information from that of the volume for which the print was engraved., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England. [Twickenham] : Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, 1765-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Vol. III, p. 80"--Above image in upper right., and Mounted on page 56 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.
Publisher:: Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):: Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Cibber [graphic]

9. Cibber [graphic]

Creator:: Bannerman, Alexander, approximately 1730- printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1765]
Call Number:: Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of Caius Gabriel Cibber, half-length, in an oval, slightly turned to the right, holding a pair of compasses in his hand, dressed in a black doublet with a wide collar and plain cuffs and with his hair scrolling to his shoulders, the title on the plinth below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from text in image., After a watercolor drawing by Christian Richter that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Publication information from that of the volume for which the print was engraved., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England. [Twickenham] : Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, 1765-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Vol. III, p. 80"--Above image in upper right., Mounted on page 59 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., 1 print : engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 16.8 x 12.7 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of statement of responsibility from bottom edge and volume and page numbering from top edge.
Publisher:: Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):: Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Cibber [graphic]