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1. Index to an extra-illustrated copy of Philip Morant's History and antiquities of the county of Essex 1768 London edition

Creator:: Foyle, William A. (William Alfred), 1885-1963, collector
Published / Created:: [early 20th century]
Call Number:: Folio 64 Es75 768 Index
Container / Volume:: Index
Image Count:: 30
Abstract:: A manuscript index to William A. Foyle's extra-illustrated copy of Philip Morant's History and Antiquities of the County of Essex 1768 London edition, listing 868 prints, drawings, and maps used to expand the already illustrated two-volume work into five folio volumes. The additional plates include maps (with some hand-colored maps), portraits of kings, nobility, criminals, and other people; views, scenery, and plans of towns; historical monuments, ruins, castles, manors, and country houses; churches and abbeys; tombs and monuments, coats of arms, genealogies, and antiquities; some satires and a print of the Fairlop Fair. In addition to 21 original drawings, the collection includes representative examples of a range of mediums used in printmaking since the 17th-century and into the late 19th-century: woodcuts, mezzotints, aquatints, steel engravings, stipple engravings, etching, lithography, and wood engraving, many that are hand-colored or, for later production processes, colored as issued; also included are images from London Magazine and the Universal Magazine as well as privately printed plates. Some of the early mezzotints and engravings are in proof states and The entries in the index reference the artist and printmaker (when known) and includes: George Vertue, Jacobus Houbraken, William Smith, Bernard Baron, James Smith, Simon Watts, Lucas Vorsterman, William Byrne, Charles Turner, Vitor Maire Vicot, George Hawkins, W.H. Byrne, John Claude Nattes, James McArgell, William Franklin, T. Athow, Andrea Freschi, R. Cooper, Samuel Buck, John Coney, Richard Houston, Thomas Nugent, John Simon, Henry Shaw, John Faber, Charles Mosley, Pierre Charles Canot, Edward Harding, Jospeh Ryland, Isaac Beckett, Thomas Wright, and Pierre Lombart. The artists of the original art included are: T. (Thomas) Athow and John Laporte, as well as several unidentified artists
Description:: Index is on 28 unnumbered leaves, with blanks before and following.
Subject (Geographic):: Essex (England) in art.
Subject (Name):: Morant, Philip, 1700-1770.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Index to an extra-illustrated copy of Philip Morant's History and antiquities of the county of Essex 1768 London edition

2. View of the palace, now erecting in the Green Park, and intended as the residence for the late Duke of York [graphic]

Creator:: Rawle, S., printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1827 and 1838]
Call Number:: 53 C599 S809
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "View of York House [now Lancaster House] from the park, St James's; soldiers and figures in park."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Following Crace, the British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1880,1113.2126) suggests a publication date of 1826. However, the reference in the title to "the late Duke of York" suggests a date following his death in 1827, while the further reference to the house still being under construction ("now erecting") suggests a date before its completion in 1838., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 4, beneath the printed text.
Publisher:: Published by S. Robinson, Chapter House Passge [sic], Paternoster Row
Subject (Name):: Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827. and Lancaster House (London, England),
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > View of the palace, now erecting in the Green Park, and intended as the residence for the late Duke of York [graphic]

3. His Royal Highness the Duke of York [graphic]

Creator:: Canton, Charles J., -1840, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [18 May 1815]
Call Number:: 53 C599 S809
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Equestrian portrait of Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, riding to the left, head turned to the right, one hand holding the reins and the other gesturing with his drawn saber; a bicorne with a feather cockade on his head, in military uniform with star on his breast; a landscape with a distant city in the background
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Nicholson, W. The history of the wars occasioned by the French Revolution. London : R. Evans, 1816., 1 print : etching with engraving and stipple ; sheet 22.8 x 34.5 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Bound in after page [28].
Publisher:: Published 18th of May 1815, by Richard Evans, Whites Row, Spitalfields
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827,
Subject (Topic):: Princes, Military uniforms, and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > His Royal Highness the Duke of York [graphic]

4. His Royal Highness the Duke of York [graphic]

Creator:: Canton, Charles J., -1840, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [18 May 1815]
Call Number:: 815.05.18.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Equestrian portrait of Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, riding to the left, head turned to the right, one hand holding the reins and the other gesturing with his drawn saber; a bicorne with a feather cockade on his head, in military uniform with star on his breast; a landscape with a distant city in the background
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Nicholson, W. The history of the wars occasioned by the French Revolution. London : R. Evans, 1816., Watermark: 1815., and Two impressions in the folder.
Publisher:: Published 18th of May 1815, by Richard Evans, Whites Row, Spitalfields
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827,
Subject (Topic):: Princes, Military uniforms, and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > His Royal Highness the Duke of York [graphic]

5. [Mary Anne Clarke] [graphic]

Creator:: Freeman, Samuel, 1773-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 February 1810]
Call Number:: 53 C599 S809
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of Mary Anne Clarke; bust length, head in profile to right; in classical dress with headband; vignette."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state
Description:: Title supplied by cataloger., Frontispiece to v.1 of: Clarke, M.A. The rival princes; or, A faithful narrative of facts ... London : Printed for the author, and published by C. Chapple, 1810., With the signature of Mary Anne Clarke in ink below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., and Mounted on verso of second front flyleaf.
Publisher:: Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1810, by T. Gillet, Crown Court, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):: Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852,
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Mary Anne Clarke] [graphic]

6. Sampson asleep on the lap of Dalilah [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [19 March 1809]
Call Number:: 53 C599 S809
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Mrs. Clarke (left), more of a siren than in authentic portraits, sits indecorously on a sofa, while the Duke, with eyes tipsily closed, reclines against her, seated on the floor. She holds scissors and the Duke's long pigtail, which she has cut off and displays to two men who approach from the right, a military officer, probably Wardle, who puts his finger slyly to his nose, and a good-looking young civilian (? Folkestone). She says: "Gentlemen you may now take him with safety, his strength is gone, I have cut off his regulation tail, and there is no danger"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Samson asleep on the lap of Delilah
Description:: Title etched below item., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on one side., Plate number "71" lightly etched in upper right., 1 print : etching ; irregular sheet 17 x 22 cm, mounted to 20 x 25 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Imperfect; sheet trimmed closely around the figures of Mary Anne Clarke and the Duke of York, with the rest of the design and all text trimmed away., and Mounted on verso of fourth front flyleaf.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 19, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):: Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Radnor, William Pleydell-Bouverie, Earl of, 1779-1869, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, Samson (Biblical judge), and Delilah (Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):: Mistresses, Sofas, Scissors & shears, Military officers, and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Sampson asleep on the lap of Dalilah [graphic].

7. The trial of Fatima Clarkis [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1809]
Call Number:: 53 C599 S809
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A room full of women, including one writing at a table and another (Mary Anne Clarke?) wearing a feathered headdress and sitting in an elevated chair, point and argue with one another. In the background, a man (the Duke of York?) peers in from behind a partially opened door
Description:: Title etched below image., Frontispiece to v.2 of: Sketchwell, B. London characters, or, Fashions and customs, of the present century. London : Printed for the booksellers in Bond-street ..., 1809., Illustration to the satirical piece "The trial of Fatima Clarkis. A fragment of an oriental tale", by "Barnaby Sketchwell", which concerned the 1809 trial of the Duke of York, the king's second son and commander-in-chief of the army, for his alleged involvement in the sale of commissions by his former mistress, Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Frontispiece. Vol. II"--Above image., "Vide page 321"--Beneath title in lower right., and Mounted on recto of third front flyleaf.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):: Mistresses, Adultery, Scandals, Women, Writing materials, Muffs, and Doors & doorways
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The trial of Fatima Clarkis [graphic].

8. Mrs. Cary; another York beauty! [graphic].

Creator:: Bate, M. N., 1783 or 5-, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [1 January 1809]
Call Number:: 53 C599 S809
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Portrait of Mrs. Carey; whole length, reclining to the left on a couch; elbow resting on a cushion; wearing a loose collared gown with tassels hanging from the front
Alternative Title:: Mrs. Carey another York beauty
Description:: Title etched below image., Unsigned, but probably the work of M.N. Bate. The companion print "Mrs. Clarke, the York beauty," likewise published by William Holland in 1809, bears the signature "drawn & engraved by Bate." See: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 440, no. 1. See also: British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1867,1214.613., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Tipped in at recto of second rear flyleaf.
Publisher:: Published Jany. 1, 1809, by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street
Subject (Topic):: Mistresses, Couches, and Cushions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Cary; another York beauty! [graphic].

9. [Medallion portraits of the Duke of York, Mary Anne Clarke, Elizabeth Taylor, Captain Huxley Sandon, and "Cupid the Arbitrator of promotions"] [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1809]
Call Number:: 53 C599 S809
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print shows a design in five numbered ovals, with a central medallion portrait atop a pillar featuring the Duke of York ("The Aga"), surrounded by four smaller medallions featuring a portrait of Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke ("Fatima pinning up a new list"), Mrs. Clarke's confidante and coauthor of her memoirs, Elizabeth Taylor ("Tailoriska"), Captain Huxley Sandon, who testified as a witness at the Duke of York's rial in 1809 ("Captn. Sandonasso"), and emblematical design showing "Cupid the Arbitrator of promotions", wearing an officer's bicorne hat, holding a sword in one hand and a bishop's miter in the other, and seated beside a cornucopia of coins; at the foot of the design is the head of Medusa crowned with serpents
Description:: Title supplied by cataloger., Illustration to the satirical piece "The trial of Fatima Clarkis. A fragment of an oriental tale", by "Barnaby Sketchwell", which concerned the 1809 trial of the Duke of York, the king's second son and commander-in-chief of the army, for his alleged involvement in the sale of commissions by his former mistress, Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke., Plate from: Sketchwell, B. London characters, or, Fashions and customs, of the present century. London : Printed for the booksellers in Bond-street ..., 1809, v. 2, facing page 317., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Lettered below image: 1. The Aga. 2. Fatima pinning up a new list. 3. Tailoriska. 4. Captn. Sandonasso. 5. Cupid the Arbitrator of promotions., "Vide, page 317"--Lower right., and Mounted on recto of first front flyleaf.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Taylor, Elizabeth, active 1800, Sandon, Huxley, and Cupid (Roman deity),
Subject (Topic):: Medusa (Greek mythology), Mistresses, Adultery, Scandals, Columns, Cornucopias, Coins, Daggers & swords, and Miters
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Medallion portraits of the Duke of York, Mary Anne Clarke, Elizabeth Taylor, Captain Huxley Sandon, and "Cupid the Arbitrator of promotions"] [graphic].