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1.
Strawberry Hill, in Middlesex, the seat of the Honourable Horace Walpole [graphic]

Creator:
Wooding, John, active 1784-1791, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1788]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the gothic style house with castellated towers, pikelets and a spire with weathervane at back, seen from lawns in the foreground with two figures, thin trees surrounding the building and a bench in the garden at right."--British Museum online...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, Octr. 1, 1788, by Harrison and Co., No. 18, Paternoster-Row, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Dwellings, and Estates
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Strawberry Hill, in Middlesex, the seat of the Honourable Horace Walpole [graphic]

2.
Strawberry Hill, in Middlesex, the seat of the Honourable Horace Walpole [graphic]

Creator:
Wooding, John, active 1784-1791, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1788]
Call Number:
SH Views D275 no. 1 Impression 1 Box 100
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the gothic style house with castellated towers, pikelets and a spire with weathervane at back, seen from lawns in the foreground with two figures, thin trees surrounding the building and a bench in the garden at right."--British Museum online...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, Octr. 1, 1788, by Harrison and Co., No. 18, Paternoster-Row, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Dwellings, and Estates
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Strawberry Hill, in Middlesex, the seat of the Honourable Horace Walpole [graphic]

3.
Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford Prime Minister to King George the First & King George

Creator:
Watson, James, approximately 1740-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1788]
Call Number:
Portraits W218A no. 2++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, whole-length standing three-quarter to right, right hand on the chancerial burse, propped on a table to left, holding a document in left hand, wearing ornate embroidered robe over his suit, a sash from left shoulder, lace cravat and long wi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1st, 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,
Subject (Topic):
Prime ministers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford Prime Minister to King George the First & King George the Second. In the Blue Damask Bed Chamber at Houghton / [graphic]

4.
Monsieur de St. George from an original picture at Mr. H. Angelo's Academy / [graphic]

Creator:
Ward, William, 1766-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 April 1788]
Call Number:
Portraits Sa139 no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait seen half-length slightly to right holding rapier in his right hand, and resting his right arm on ledge before music manuscript and violin, eyes to front, wearing red coat, cravat and wig; sky behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a champion fencer, violinist and conductor in Paris; son of George Bologne de Saint-Georges and Nanon, his African slave. First classical composer of African ancestry; also known as the "Black Mozart".
Publisher:
Publish'd April 4th, 1788, by Bradshaw, No. 4 Coventry Street
Subject (Name):
Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne, chevalier de, 1745-1799,
Subject (Topic):
Composers and Fencers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Monsieur de St. George from an original picture at Mr. H. Angelo's Academy / [graphic]

5.
Suspence [graphic]

Creator:
Ward, William, 1766-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:
[circa 1788?]
Call Number:
788.00.00.38+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Within the frame of an oval 'window', one well-dressed young woman sits facing the viewer with her back to the wall, looking intently at a watch in her right hand. Her companion leans on the back of a chair, facing the seated woman, her back to the vi...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Teapots, and Women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Suspence [graphic]

6.
[Ticket for a concert organized by the Society of Musicians] [graphic]

Creator:
Vitalba, Giovanni, 1738-1792, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1788]
Call Number:
788.00.00.45+
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Ticket to the Pantheon; a family concert outside a thatched cottage with a boy blowing a trumpet accompanying his sister who sings from a sheet, while the parents look on; in frame wrapped in garlands, ... cartouche at top."--British Museum online ca...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Charity, Musical instruments, Families, and Dwellings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Ticket for a concert organized by the Society of Musicians] [graphic]

7.
The storm from an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. in the possession of T. Gainsborough Esqr

Creator:
Trotter, Thomas, 1756-1803, printmaker
Published / Created:
[7 April 1788]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 11. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman in a bonnet hunching over and pulling her cloak around her against the high wind and rain, blowing her skirts from the left; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 7th, 1788, by J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street
Subject (Topic):
Winds, Rain, and Bonnets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The storm from an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. in the possession of T. Gainsborough Esqr. R.A. / [graphic]

8.
Satan, sin and death Paradise Lost book II. From a painting by Hogarth (left unfinished) in the

Creator:
Townley, Charles, 1746-approximately 1800, printmaker
Published / Created:
published according to act of Parliament April 15th, 1767.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Sin interposes herself between Satan on the left and his son Death on the right to stop them attacking each other, revealing their relation to each other, with a portcullis gate in upper right, attached by a chain in the foreground; copy of a print b...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Deadly sins, Death, and Devil
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Satan, sin and death Paradise Lost book II. From a painting by Hogarth (left unfinished) in the collection of David Garrick Esq. to whom this plate is inscribed by his most obliged and obedient servant, Charles Townley / [graphic]

9.
Stoke Pogis Church, in Buckinghamshire [graphic]

Creator:
Taylor, Isaac, 1759-1829, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 July 1788]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Stoke Poges Church, in Buckinghamshire
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1, 1788, by Iohn Sewell, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Stoke Poges (England)
Subject (Name):
Saint Giles Church (Stoke Poges, England)
Subject (Topic):
Churches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Stoke Pogis Church, in Buckinghamshire [graphic]

10.
A reverie of Prince Demetrius Cantemir, Ospidar of Moldavia [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 April 1788]
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:
Leaf 44. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Burke sleeps in a half-reclining position, his arms folded, legs extended, spectacles pushed up on his forehead. On a pedestal above his head (right) is a bust inscribed 'Mahomet', a fierce-looking, mustachioed man. A hanging lamp burns before it. On...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. 26th April 1788 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Turkey.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Dimitrie Cantemir, Voivode of Moldavia, 1673-1723.
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment, Sultans, and Waterpipes (Smoking)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A reverie of Prince Demetrius Cantemir, Ospidar of Moldavia [graphic]

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