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1.
The dukes of Suffolk & Norfolk receiving the great seal of England from Cardinal Wolsey on his

Creator:
White, Thomas, approximately 1730-approximately 1775, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1777]
Call Number:
Portraits W867 no. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Dukes of Suffolk and Norfolk receiving the great seal of England from Cardinal Wolsey on his resignation
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Text at top of image: "Engraved for Russell's History of England.", Plate from: Russell, W.A. A new and authentic history of England, with separate historical sketches of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. London : Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespeare's-Head, No. 17, in Pater-Noster Row, MDCCLXXVII [1777]., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
Publisher:
J. Cooke
Subject (Name):
Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The dukes of Suffolk & Norfolk receiving the great seal of England from Cardinal Wolsey on his resignation [graphic]

2.
Aristodemus, being elected King of Crete, is crowned by the venerable sages [graphic]

Creator:
Walker, William, 1729-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
1 March 1777.
Call Number:
777.03.01.01
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A crown is being placed on the head of Aristodemus (center) as he is surrounded by soldiers and sages
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Mounted to 31.8 x 25.4 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by G. Kearsly, No. 46 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Coronations and Supernatural beings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Aristodemus, being elected King of Crete, is crowned by the venerable sages [graphic]

3.
Cleopatra [graphic]

Creator:
Strange, Robert, Sir, 1721-1792, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1777]
Call Number:
777.00.00.43++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: E tabula Guidonis Reni, in Pinacotheca Domini De Montriblou armigeri conservata., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt.
Subject (Name):
Cleopatra, Queen, consort of Juba II, King of Mauretania, 40 B.C.-
Subject (Topic):
Queens and Snakes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Cleopatra [graphic]

4.
Lady Caroline Montague daughter of his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh / [graphic]

Creator:
Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 November 1777]
Call Number:
Portraits D733a no. 1++
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1581); as a child standing whole-length to front wearing dark cape, muff and dark hat with ribbon, small dog beside her at left, bird at right; winter landscape behind"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Manuscript note in upper right corner: "86.", and Mounted to sheet 666 x 471 mm.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1st 1777, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Douglas, Caroline, 1774-1854
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lady Caroline Montague daughter of his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh / [graphic]

5.
Mademoiselle Clermont [graphic]

Creator:
Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1777]
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 seen half-length in profile to right left within oval frame, wearing embroidered dress with lace cuffs, shawl and her hair full and high, tied with ribbon; state with plate cut above publication line."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.4959., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 35 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
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mademoiselle Clermont [graphic]

6.
Archd. Robertson, print-seller and drawing-master, in Savill Row Passage, adjoining Squib's auction

Creator:
Robertson, Archibald, 1765-1835
Published / Created:
[approximately 1777]
Call Number:
File 66 777 R649
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
"Trade card of Archibald Robertson, drawing master, at Savill Row Passage, adjoining Squib's Auction Room; a street with Robertson's shop to the right, figures on the pavement, an arched passageway at the end of the street; in oval with figures at the bottom corners; text below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Archibald Robertson, print-seller and drawing-master ...
Description:
Title from engraved text below image., Paul Sandby, who lived above Robertson's shop and collaborated with him, was possibly involved in the production of the image., Date from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,56.23., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text continues: ... colour boxes, the best black lead and hair pencils, indian ink, port-folios with or without leaves, ladies black tracing paper, and very fine transparent do. for etching, with copper plates prepared for do. etching needles &c. &c. &c. Visiting cards, engraved in the most elegant manner; great choice of paper hangings in the newest taste. NB: Sandby's works in aqua tinta, to be had complete, prints framed & glazed, and drawings neatly fitted up, all sorts of stationary wares., and Mounted on sheet with with notes from a previous owner about the card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Archibald Robertson
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Robertson, Archibald, 1765-1835. and Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials industry, Graphic arts equipment industry, Stationery trade, Artists' studios, and Stores & shops
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Archd. Robertson, print-seller and drawing-master, in Savill Row Passage, adjoining Squib's auction room sells great variety of Italian, French and Dutch prints and drawings; best Swiss-crayons, variety of drawing paper, port crayons, all sorts of Italian and French chalks ... [graphic]

7.
To the subscribers to the Lottery Magazine for 1777 this plate (representing the four favourites of

Creator:
Phillips, John, active 1777, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1777]
Call Number:
777.00.00.06
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three men and two women in a lottery insurance office, one man with quill pen behind desk. The other individuals all hold bills reading "Mess. Gosling & Co. pay the bearer one hundred..." Sign on back wall reads "Tickets insured by Iohnson & Co." and coat of arms of George III is visible on wall to the right. One of the women is a barmaid and holds 2 tankards
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Imprint from Lottery magazine.
Publisher:
Edward Johnson
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Lottery winners, Lotteries, Drinking vessels, Interiors, Coats of arms, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > To the subscribers to the Lottery Magazine for 1777 this plate (representing the four favourites of fortune who receiv'd the four hundred guineas for last years Lottery Magazine) is most gratefully inscribed by their obliged humble sert. E. Johnson / [graphic]

8.
Frances Bridges Countess of Exeter [graphic]

Creator:
Ogborne, John, 1755-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, three-quarter length, turned slightly to right, in widow's robe, seated in a chair before a curtain, holding gloves; after Richardson after Van Dyck."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frances Brydges Countess of Exeter
Description:
Title in scratched letters below image., Proof state with scratched lettering. For published state with title, statements of responsibility, and publication line re-etched, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,3.308., Engraved after a copy by Richardson, as indicated by the text "from a picture by Richardson after Van Dyke in the possession of I. Thane" on published state of the plate. The original painting by Van Dyck, formerly owned by Richardson, was acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Year of publication from imprint statement on published state: Pub. March 1st, 1777, by J. Thane, Gerrard Street, Soho., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and imprint statement erased from sheet. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted on page 144 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., Note in pencil beside image, on mounting sheet: This is a copy, the original has sold for 12 guineas; she is wrong plac'd here., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st by J. Thane
Subject (Name):
Exeter, Frances Brydges, Countess of, 1580-1663, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Frances Bridges Countess of Exeter [graphic]

9.
Frances Bridges Countess of Exeter from a picture by Richardson after Van Dyke in the possession of

Creator:
Ogborne, John, 1755-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, three-quarter length, turned slightly to right, in widow's robe, seated in a chair before a curtain, holding gloves."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frances Brydges Countess of Exeter
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., The original painting by Van Dyck, formerly owned by Richardson, was acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 110 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., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in brown ink below title: The original, which was Richardson's, is now at Strawberry Hill.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st, 1777, by J. Thane, Gerrard Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Exeter, Frances Brydges, Countess of, 1580-1663, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Frances Bridges Countess of Exeter from a picture by Richardson after Van Dyke in the possession of I. Thane / [graphic]

10.
Twickenham Meadows, in Middlesex, the seat of Lady Diana Beauclerk [graphic]

Creator:
Middiman, Samuel, approximately 1750-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 February 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three figures in a garden: a woman standing with a parasol, a man looking through a telescope, another woman seated; a large tree on the left; a house behind the figures; two women seated on a bench next to the house"--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Early (proof?) state of a plate published in Copper-plate magazine with the title "Twickenham Meadows, Middlesex." For the later state with additional details added to the building and figures and with re-etched title, publication line and statements of responsibility, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,0712.874., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 249 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feb. 1, 77, by Harrison and Co., No. 18 Paternoster Row, London
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Houses, and Estates
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Twickenham Meadows, in Middlesex, the seat of Lady Diana Beauclerk [graphic]

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