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1. The printing house of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill [graphic]

Creator:: Collard, William, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1817 and 1847?]
Call Number:: SH Views Ed25 no. 14 Box 105
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An image of the printing house at Strawberry Hill. A figure believed to be Thomas Kirgate stands in the road in front of the building holding a large portfolio under his arm
Description:: Title etched below image., Date from related print in the British Museum online catalogue. Cf. British Museum online catalogue. Accessions no.: 1956,1018.31., and Possibly engraved after Edward Edwards's drawing "Printing-House at Strawberry Hill 1784". The original drawing is held in The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),, and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Estates and Outbuildings
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The printing house of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill [graphic]

2. Adoniram Byfield from an unique print in the collection of Strawberry Hill / [graphic]

Creator:: Cooper, Robert, active 1795-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1817 and 1824]
Call Number:: SH Contents C776 no. 1 Box 100
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Satirical portrait of Adoniram Byfield, with the Devil at his shoulder blowing at a child's toy windmill fixed on Byfield's hat; the vanes are labelled "Hypocrisy", "Lust", "Pride" and "Covetousness". Lettered with speech ribbons: the Devil saying, "He do's my business bravely"; Byfield, "Needs must when the Devil drives."
Description:: Title from caption below image. and Date of publication based on active dates of the Baldwyns.
Publisher:: Published by Charles & Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street
Subject (Name):: Byfield, Adoniram, -1660,
Subject (Topic):: Devil
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Adoniram Byfield from an unique print in the collection of Strawberry Hill / [graphic]

3. Landlord & tenant [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1817 and 1819?]
Call Number:: 817.00.00.25+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A dandy (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029), with a handsome profile, wearing knee-breeches, advances with a mincing step and outstretched hands towards an ugly farmer who stands facing him with a large stick and wearing top-boots and broad-brimmed hat. The tenant holds a money-bag and is fiercely prognathous. The landlord: "My dear Sir--I am rejoiced to see you--I hope your lovely family are well--You are a charming Man--correct in every point--in short your countenance is an index to your mind." The farmer: "You certainly are flattering me--here is your Rent.--as to my family--thanks to the Lord, my Wife, and all the brats, be gone to kingdome come." There is a carpeted floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Landlord and tenant
Description:: Title from text below image., Artist identified as Capt. Hehl in the British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and "One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819 ..."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Dandies, British, Farmers, Hats, Staffs (Sticks), Bags, and Landlord & tenant relations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Landlord & tenant [graphic].

4. The Graces they were culling posies and found young love among the roses [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1817 and 1819?]
Call Number:: 817.00.00.24+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Three grotesquely ugly old maids stoop delightedly over a Cupid who sleeps against a rose-bush, arrow in hand, his unstrung bow beside him. On the back of one sits an ape; a lap-dog is beside her. A parrot sits on the bonnet of another, the third kneels. On a mound (right) a cock stands crowing: 'Cock a doodle doo.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., "One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1111.2137., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: C. Wilmot 1815.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Older people, Single women, Roses, Putti, Cupids, Monkeys, Dogs, Parrots, and Roosters
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Graces they were culling posies and found young love among the roses [graphic].

5. Bon ton [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1817 and 1819?]
Call Number:: 818.00.00.56+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A dandy (left), opera-hat in hand, bends towards a lady to inspect her necklace through his glass. He has the short waist, high collar, and conspicuous watch-ribbon of the dandies, with long tight pantaloons to the ankle (cf. No. 13029). She wears a short white ball-dress, and holds up a closed fan, a shawl over her left arm. She stands at the foot of a staircase on which are flowering plants in ornamental pots. Below the title: '"Pon honor Lady Caroline, You appear a "divinity! -by Jove those Jewels are of the premiere "qualité, did Love furnish them? "On my truth Sir William You are a gay Man.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., "One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819 ... She resembles Lady Caroline Lamb, the most conspicuous Lady Caroline of the day. There was a jeweller named Love."--British Museum curator's comment., Attributed to Captain Hehl in British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828
Subject (Topic):: Dandies, British, and Jewelers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Bon ton [graphic].

6. [William Howley] [graphic]

Creator:: Turner, Charles, 1774-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1817]
Call Number:: Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait after Lawrence (Garlick 421); three-quarter length seated in ecclesiastical robes, looking to left, holding a paper on his lap in both hands."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:: William Howley, D.D. F.R.S. : Lord Bishop of London
Description:: Title supplied by cataloger; alternative title from later state., Early (proof?) state, with production details only. For a later state with title and imprint added, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.5597., Publication information inferred from imprint on later state: London, Pubd. July 28, 1817, by Messrs. Colnaghi & Co., Cockspur Street, Haymarket., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text from bottom edge., Bound in before page 559 (leaf numbered '150' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Manuscript title "William Howley - Archbishop of Canterbury" in ink below image.
Publisher:: Messrs. Colnaghi & Co.
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Howley, William, 1766-1848,
Subject (Topic):: Bishops
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [William Howley] [graphic]

7. Mrs. Sheridan [graphic]

Creator:: Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1817.
Call Number:: Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Half-length portrait of Esther Jane Sheridan, second wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, with her son Charles on her back
Description:: Title etched below image., After painting by John Hoppner, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Accession Number: 65.203)., Probably an early state, before the incorrect artist's name "Sir Joshua Reynolds" was replaced by the correct name "J. Hoppner Esqr. R.A." For the later state with the correction, see impression at the National Library of Wales., Later state was the frontispiece to v.2 of: Watkins, J. Memoirs of the public and private life of the Right Honorable R.B. Sheridan. London : Printed for H. Colburn, 1817., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 557 (leaf numbered '145' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:: Published by Henry Colburn, Conduit Street
Subject (Name):: Sheridan, Hester Jane, 1776-1817, and Sheridan, Charles Brinsley, 1796-1843,
Subject (Topic):: Mothers and Children
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Sheridan [graphic]

8. Consultation of physicians [graphic]

Published / Created:: [approximately 1817]
Call Number:: Hogarth 817.00.00.24 Box 140
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. A version of the print also published with lettering "The company of undertakers". The three named quacks occupy the top, twelve other 'doctors' are situated in the lower half; most of them have gold canes held up to their noses, one is dipping his finger into a urinal while another holds it.
Description:: Title engraved below image., Date of publication from watermark., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered "138" in lower left corner., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 144., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2299., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1817.
Publisher:: Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Mapp, Sarah, -1737,, Taylor, John, 1703-1772,, Ward, Joshua, 1685-1761,, Taylor, John, 1703-1772., and Ward, Joshua, 1685-1761.
Subject (Topic):: Physicians, Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Staffs (Sticks), Wigs, and Costume
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Consultation of physicians [graphic]

9. Claremont

Published / Created:: [1817]
Call Number:: File 56 C47 817C
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text and still image
Abstract:: All-engraved card printed with a black mourning board, with an image of her home Claremont below the title and below, nine lines that provide biographical details and an anecdote a snuff box that she had commissioned before her death, a gift for her husband Prince Leopold. A poem of nine lines, intended to be inscribed on the lid of the snuff box, is engraved below
Alternative Title:: Late residence of our much beloved and truly lamented Lady, the Princess Charlotte of Wales ...
Description:: Title from texted engraved above image., First line of verse: To Claremonts terrac'd heights, and Esher's Groves ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865., and Claremont House (Surrey, England),
Subject (Topic):: Official residences
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Claremont