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1.
Design (not executed) of a farm-house for Sr. Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertfordshire [art

Creator:
Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1760]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3585 leaf 53 Box 4
Collection Title:
Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A drawing showing the plan and elevation for Sir Thomas Seabright's farmhouse Beechwood in Herfordshire which was never executed according to Horace Walpole's note. Includes notes on heights and floorplan with rooms indicated in the artist's hand and note at the bottom of the drawing, "... where the pricked line is: must be thrown a strong arch, to Support the Angle made betweem the two tow'rs."
Alternative Title:
Design (not executed) of a farmhouse for Sir Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertforshire
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink written on mount below drawing., Date based on creation date of Horace Walpole's album. One of two drawings for the farmhouse included in the album., Watermark: IV., and Formerly mounted on leaf 53 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Geographic):
Hertfordshire (England)
Subject (Name):
Seabright, Thomas Saunders, -1761.
Subject (Topic):
Estates and Farmhouses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Design (not executed) of a farm-house for Sr. Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertfordshire [art original].

2.
[Side elevation of a design (not executed) of a farm-house for Sr. Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in

Creator:
Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1760]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3585 leaf 54 Box 4
Collection Title:
Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A drawing showing the side elevation for Sir Thomas Seabright's farmhouse Beechwood in Herfordshire which was never executed according to Horace Walpole's note on the other drawing included in the album for this project
Alternative Title:
Design (not executed) of a farmhouse for Sir Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertforshire
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on creation date of Horace Walpole's album. One of two drawings for the farmhouse included in the album., Watermark (partial) left edge, in the middle of the sheet: top of crest., and Formerly mounted on leaf 54 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Geographic):
Hertfordshire (England)
Subject (Name):
Seabright, Thomas Saunders, -1761.
Subject (Topic):
Estates and Farmhouses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Side elevation of a design (not executed) of a farm-house for Sr. Thomas Seabright at Beechwood in Hertfordshire] [art original].

3.
[A farmhouse, man with barrow] [art original].

Creator:
Hunt, William Henry, 1790-1864, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1825 and 1864?]
Call Number:
Drawings H939 no. 2 Box D128
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a farmyard, a man pushes a wheelbarrow. The farmhouse stands behind the man. Tree branches and tools for cutting wood are scattered throughout the farmyard
Description:
Title from inscription in graphite pencil on verso: Hunt, William Henry, 1790-1864. A farmhouse, man with barrow in pen and watercolor., Inscription in graphite pencil on verso: Brought from attic to print room by WSL, 1-16-75., and William Henry Hunt, English watercolor painter, 1790-1864.
Subject (Topic):
Farms, Farmhouses, and Woodcutting
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A farmhouse, man with barrow] [art original].

4.
[Farmyard, woman with children] [art original].

Creator:
Hunt, William Henry, 1790-1864, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1825 and 1864?]
Call Number:
Drawings H939 no. 1 Box D128
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of a farmyard. A brick farmhouse stands in the corner. Numerous farm tools such as buckets, bins, watering cans, pots and a broom are piled along a fence. A woman holds a child while watching another sitting on the ground. Another farmhouse stands behind the fence
Description:
Title from inscription in graphite pencil on verso: By Hunt, William Henry, 1790-1864. [Farmyard, woman with children]. and William Henry Hunt, English watercolor painter, 1790-1864.
Subject (Topic):
Barrels, Families, British, Farms, Farmhouses, and Pails
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Farmyard, woman with children] [art original].

5.
[Swing low sweet chariot] [graphic].

Creator:
McCrady, John, 1911-1968, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1941]
Call Number:
Print20134
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Publisher and date supplied by curator., Edition of 250., After the artist's painting of 1936., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Associated American Artists
Subject (Topic):
Southern States, Farm life, Death, Black people, Dead persons, Angels, Demons, Farmhouses, Dogs, and Mailboxes
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Swing low sweet chariot] [graphic].

6.
Erewhon [graphic].

Creator:
Thoms, Herbert, 1885-1972, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1955]
Call Number:
Print00672
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from manuscript note in artist's hand., Place of creation based on artist's place of residence., Date of creation based on dedicatee's date of death., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., "Herbert Thoms imp. for Clem Fry." in pencil lower right., and "5/Erewhon" in pencil lower left.
Publisher:
Herbert Thoms
Subject (Topic):
Erewhon (Imaginary place). and Farmhouses
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Erewhon [graphic].

7.
Hooly and fairly [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the act directs, 4 June, 1787.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly Scots bonnet laird or farmer stands repeating the song, which is a complaint of the extravagance and misconduct of his wife. He wears a round Scots bonnet and a tartan plaid over his coat, long stockings, and shoes tied with strings, tattered gloves from which his fingers protrude; a cane is suspended from his left wrist. He holds in his left hand a small tankard with an open lid indicating in London 'a dram', or gin. In the background is a small house, partly visible on the left, outside which stands the wife, drunk and flourishing a similar tankard; a wine-bottle lies at her feet, a man leans from the window. On the right is a farm building with a horse, two cows, and a broken fence. In the foreground (right) is a large thistle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wholly and fairly
Description:
Title from caption below image, Illustration to a song in Scots engraved beneath the title with the refrain: 'O! gin my Wife wad drink Hooly and Fairly'., Verse in three columns below title begins: "Oh what had I ado for to marry My wife she drinks naithing but Sack and Canary ...", Numbered "581" in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 36 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Scots, Alcoholism, Clothing & dress, Drinking vessels, Ethnic stereotypes, Farmhouses, Fences, Intoxication, Spouses, and Thistles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Hooly and fairly [graphic].

8.
Hooly and fairly [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the act directs, 4 June 1787.
Call Number:
787.06.04.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly Scots bonnet laird or farmer stands repeating the song, which is a complaint of the extravagance and misconduct of his wife. He wears a round Scots bonnet and a tartan plaid over his coat, long stockings, and shoes tied with strings, tattered gloves from which his fingers protrude; a cane is suspended from his left wrist. He holds in his left hand a small tankard with an open lid indicating in London 'a dram' or gin. In the background is a small house, partly visible on the left, outside which stands the wife, drunk and flourishing a similar tankard; a wine-bottle lies at her feet, a man leans from the window. On the right is a farm building wiuth a horse, two cows, and a broken fence. In the foreground right is a large thistle."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wholly and fairly
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of statement "Published as the act directs, 4 June 1787." See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Scots, Alcoholism, Clothing & dress, Drinking vessels, Ethnic stereotypes, Farmhouses, Fences, Intoxication, Pleading (Begging), Spouses, and Thistles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Hooly and fairly [graphic].

9.
The old cheese [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1 February 1798]
Call Number:
798.02.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Heading to verses printed in two columns. After the title: 'An Original Tale, recited by Mr. Fawcett, at Covent-Garden Theatre'. A farmer in top-boots stands at the head of his dinner-table, about to hurl a large cheese; other cheeses fly about the room, and have broken plates and a window-pane. Six alarmed guests sit at the table. The farmer's wife sits opposite him. The verses relate the tale of a loutish and hen-pecked husband who gives an exhibition of his domestic authority to impress his guests, but is finally quelled by his wife
Description:
Title from item., After an original drawing by Isaac Cruikshank in the Huntington Library., Title continues below plate in letterpress: An original tale recited by Mr. Fawcett at Covent-Garden Theatre., Text of the tale in two columns: Young Slouch, the farmer, had a jolly wife, that knew all the conveniences of life ..., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Published 1st February 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Cats, Cheese, Couples, Dining tables, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Farmers, Farmhouses, and Interiors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The old cheese [graphic].

10.
The widow Costard's cow & goods distrained for taxes, are relieved by the generosity of Johnny

Published / Created:
19 Oct. 1782.
Call Number:
782.10.19.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A widow with her gouty foot elevated, sits on a stool in front of her cottage, as her daughter wipes away a tear in the doorway. A tax collector with a book under his arm examines the widow's possessions, which are strewn about the ground in front of the house. Included are a bellows, chair, candlesticks, and cauldron. The cow's head is visible on the left. In the foreground a young squire in riding dress is in the act of offering the old woman a purse, as he eyes her pretty daughter
Alternative Title:
Widow Costard's cow and goods distrained for taxes
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett ... No. 53 Fleet Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Widows, Cows, Farmhouses, Tax payers, Country life, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The widow Costard's cow & goods distrained for taxes, are relieved by the generosity of Johnny Pearmain [graphic].