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154. [Roman coins and medals] [graphic]

Creator:: Barlow, Inigo, artist, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1789]
Call Number:: Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Plate with numbered depictions of the obverse and reverse of fourteen Roman coins and medals. Numbered "4" among these is a gold medal, with heads of Marc Anthony and his wife Octavia, that was formerly in the collection of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Pinkerton, J. An essay on medals: or, An introduction to the knowledge of ancient and modern coins and medals; especially those of Greece, Rome, and Britain. London : Printed for J. Edwards ... and J. Johnson ..., 1789., "Vol. I, plate 2"--Upper right corner., Imperfect; only top half of plate is present, with bottom half and all text trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 110 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., With manuscript label on separate strip of paper mounted below image: Mr. Walpole's unique gold is no. 4 of this plate., Mounted beside a note from Horace Walpole to Richard Bull in which Walpole mentions the depiction of his Marc Anthony medal in the second edition of Pinkerton's An essay on medals. In the note Walpole also mentions sending along the plate in question, and the impression mounted here probably represents the top half of the plate he sent to Bull., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: J. Edwards and J. Johnson
Subject (Name):: Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C., and Octavia, -11 B.C.,
Subject (Topic):: Classical antiquities, Coins, and Medals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Roman coins and medals] [graphic]

155. [Roman coins and medals] [graphic]

Creator:: Barlow, Inigo, artist, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1789]
Call Number:: Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Plate with numbered depictions of the obverse and reverse of fourteen Roman coins and medals. Numbered "4" among these is a gold medal, with heads of Marc Anthony and his wife Octavia, that was formerly in the collection of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Pinkerton, J. An essay on medals: or, An introduction to the knowledge of ancient and modern coins and medals; especially those of Greece, Rome, and Britain. London : Printed for J. Edwards ... and J. Johnson ..., 1789., "Vol. I, plate 2"--Upper right corner., Imperfect; only top half of plate is present, with bottom half and all text trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 111 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 wove paper ; sheet 7.4 x 10.3 cm., Imperfect; only bottom half of plate is present, with top half and all text trimmed away., This impression probably represents the bottom half of a plate sent by Horace Walpole to Richard Bull. See top half of plate and note from Walpole to Bull mounted on preceding page (page 110)., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: J. Edwards and J. Johnson
Subject (Name):: Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C., and Octavia, -11 B.C.,
Subject (Topic):: Classical antiquities, Coins, and Medals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Roman coins and medals] [graphic]

156. [Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Scene V [graphic]

Creator:: Facius, Georg Sigmund, approximately 1750- printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 May 1789]
Call Number:: Drawer 724 803B no. 78
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Romeo sitting on a couch on the left, taking hold of Juliet's hand, under an awning in a classical palace, with dancers playing tambourines in the background and a man talking to Tybalt, who grasps his sword angrily."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: 'Shakspeare' in open letters etched below imprint. and Full title from British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:: Aqua fortis publish'd May 1st, 1789, by Jno. & Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & No. 59, Pall Mall, London
Subject (Name):: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):: Characters
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Scene V [graphic]

157. [Sheridan] [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1789]
Call Number:: 789.06.29.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title assigned by British Museum catalogue., Printmaker identified by British Museum catalogue as Gillray signing with James Sayers's initials., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Warren Hastings's trial -- Reference to Sheridan's speech at Hastings's trial.
Publisher:: Publish'd 29th June 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street
Subject (Name):: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Sheridan] [graphic]

158. [Sheridan] [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [29 June 1789]
Call Number:: 789.06.29.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title assigned by the cataloger., Printmaker identified as possibly Gillray signing with James Sayers's initials from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Warren Hastings's trial -- Sheridan's speech at Hastings's trial., and Manuscript note in contemporary hand identifying Sheridan in lower right corner.
Publisher:: Pubd. June 29, 1789, by [S.]W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Sheridan] [graphic]

159. [The Right Honorable William Pitt] [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker, artist, publisher
Published / Created:: [20 February 1789]
Call Number:: Portraits P688a no. 3++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of William Pitt three-quarter length seated, his head slightly turned to left, his right hand resting on documents on a table; curtain and pillar in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0901.1338., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Matted.
Publisher:: Pub'd. Feby. 20th, 1789 by Js. Gillray & S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Pitt, William, 1759-1806,
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [The Right Honorable William Pitt] [graphic]

160. [William Pitt] [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 June 1789]
Call Number:: 789.06.17.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A caricature portrait of Pitt speaking in the House of Commons in profile to the right. In his right hand is a document: 'Regency Restrictions' (see British Museum Satires No. 7488, &c.); his hat is under his left arm, his left hand is held out. He bends forward, his right leg advanced."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title devised by cataloger; title based on that given in the British Museum catalogue., Questionable attribution to Gillray from the British Museum catalogue., An imitation of the whole length portraits of Sayers. See British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Speeches: Pitt's on Regency Bill, 1789 -- Bills: Regency Bill -- Opposition to Regency Bill -- Allusion to Regency restrictions.
Publisher:: Pubd. June 17, 1789, by W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):: Regency
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [William Pitt] [graphic]

161. [Winter's tale. Act IV. Scene III] [graphic]

Creator:: Fittler, James, 1758-1835, printmaker
Published / Created:: [6 February 1789]
Call Number:: Drawer 724 803B no. 95
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Perdita, mistress of the feast, with flowers in her hair and holding a staff in her left hand, giving rosemary and rue to Polixenes, who sits under a large tree to left, wearing a plumed hat and shrouded in a cloak, looking up at her appreciatively, while Florizel, disguised as Doricles, ushers forward his love, a dog beside him to right, with other figures, including a man wearing a sheepskin jacket, kneeling with a basket of fruit to left, the shepherd standing behind Polixenes, a ribbon seller showing a ballad to two young women to right and dancers in the field beyond."--Brit. Mus. online catalogue
Description:: Title from published state., State with figures in outline only., 'Shakspeare' in open letters below imprint., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge.
Publisher:: Publish'd Feb. 6th, 1789, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):: Characters
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Winter's tale. Act IV. Scene III] [graphic]