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1.
"A 'park wall' and 'back parlour'" [art original]

Creator:
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Collection Title:
Volume 12, page 214. Horace Walpole and his world.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing with two scenes: 'the back parlour" in an oval within a larger rectangular view of a 'park wall'. The park wall is covered in ivy and at its base, lush ferns and other plants and mushrooms, ferns and at the top a stand of trees. The oval inset...
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation by Horace Walpole's letter to Miss Berry December 1793: "A park-wall with ivy on it and fern near it, and a back parlour in London in summer, with a dead creeper and a couple of sooty sparrows, are my strong...
Subject (Topic):
Parlors, Garden walls, Casement windows, and Depression (Mental state)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "A 'park wall' and 'back parlour'" [art original]

2.
The Pall Mall concert [graphic].

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:
[31 January 1821]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 42. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two cats on garden walls approach each other menacingly. One (left) is white, with the features of Queen Caroline, the other a dark tabby with the features of George IV. Each miaows, raising an angry paw. The Queen is on a 'Party Wall', at right angl...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 31, 1821, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Fighting, and Garden walls
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Pall Mall concert [graphic].

3.
Entrance to Vauxhall [art original].

Published / Created:
[early 19th century?]
Call Number:
Folio LWL Mss Vol. 191
Collection Title:
Page 87. Vauxhall miscellany.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in watercolor at bottom of image.
Subject (Geographic):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Covered walks, Garden walls, and Light fixtures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Entrance to Vauxhall [art original].

4.
[The gallant's downfall] [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1816]
Call Number:
Print00227
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The corner of a house seen from a walled garden. Death throws down a ladder which gave access to a window from which a distraught girl looks out; her lover, a young lieutenant, falls from it towards a pond, while an elderly colonel, the father, fires...
Alternative Title:
Assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1 - 1816, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Accidents, Courtship, Military officers, British, Gardens, Garden walls, Skeletons, Ladders, Falling, Firearms, Dogs, Cats, and Lakes & ponds
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [The gallant's downfall] [graphic].

5.
Broad grins, or, A black joke [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 June 1812]
Call Number:
Print00190
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman in an advanced stage of pregnancy stands with folded hands, laughing, close to an elderly parson (right) of Dr. Syntax type who recoils in angry horror. Behind them is a high garden wall, with a notice: 'Man Traps laid in these Grounds'. Behi...
Alternative Title:
Black joke
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. June 4th, 1812, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Pregnancy, Laughing, Clergy, Garden walls, Signs (Notices), Servants, and Smiling
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Broad grins, or, A black joke [graphic]

6.
A peep over the garden wall in Berkeley Square [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[17 March 1794]
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:
Leaf 62. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The equestrian statue of George III dressed as Marcus Aurelius stands behind the brick wall of Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square, London, watching the assembly in the garden through a spy-glass. Above the wall, hats with French republican cockades ar...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and France
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Barère, B. 1755-1841. (Bertrand),, and Lansdowne House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Statues, Politics and government, Foreign relations, Sculpture, Horses, Garden walls, and Hats
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A peep over the garden wall in Berkeley Square [graphic]

7.
A peep over the garden wall in Berkeley Square [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[17 March 1794]
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 62. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The equestrian statue of George III dressed as Marcus Aurelius stands behind the brick wall of Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square, London, watching the assembly in the garden through a spy-glass. Above the wall, hats with French republican cockades ar...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and France
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Barère, B. 1755-1841. (Bertrand),, and Lansdowne House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Statues, Politics and government, Foreign relations, Sculpture, Horses, Garden walls, and Hats
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A peep over the garden wall in Berkeley Square [graphic]

8.
A peep over the garden wall in Berkeley Square [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[17 March 1794]
Call Number:
794.03.17.06 Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 62. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The equestrian statue of George III dressed as Marcus Aurelius stands behind the brick wall of Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square, London, watching the assembly in the garden through a spy-glass. Above the wall, hats with French republican cockades ar...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and France
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Barère, B. 1755-1841. (Bertrand),, and Lansdowne House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Statues, Politics and government, Foreign relations, Sculpture, Horses, Garden walls, and Hats
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A peep over the garden wall in Berkeley Square [graphic]

9.
The Earl of Mansfields, at Caen Wood, near Hampstead, Middlesex [graphic].

Published / Created:
[12 September 1792]
Call Number:
Folio 75 L847 750
Collection Title:
Leaf 49. London and its environs about 1750.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the grand house at Kenwood with walled garden, seen from the passing road; three figures on horseback riding by, a couple walking to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published 12th Septr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Hampstead (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 and Kenwood House (Hampstead, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Estates, Dwellings, Garden walls, Horseback riding, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Earl of Mansfields, at Caen Wood, near Hampstead, Middlesex [graphic].

10.
The incumbent [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1 December 1790]
Call Number:
790.12.01.04 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Older people, Benches, Garden walls, Gates, Reading, and Eyeglasses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The incumbent [graphic].

11.
A scene in a nunnery garden [graphic].

Published / Created:
5 April 1787.
Call Number:
787.04.05.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two young women, attired in low-cut, fine dresses, their veils pulled back over their hair exposing their pretty, young faces, sit in a semi-embrace on a blue loveseat in a garden, one looking lovingly into the eyes of the other with her hand posed to...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, chart, map and printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Benches, Convents, Gardens, Garden walls, Monks, and Nuns
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A scene in a nunnery garden [graphic].

12.
Scene in a farce calld. The Quaker [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
1783.
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four characters participating in the quintet of the first act finale of Dibdin's "The Quaker" are shown here: Gillian and Floretta look over the garden wall while Steady attempts to keep Solomon from conversation with them
Alternative Title:
Scene in a farce called The Quaker
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814., Bannister, John, 1760-1836, and Parsons, William, 1736-1795
Subject (Topic):
Singing, Garden walls, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Scene in a farce calld. The Quaker [graphic].

13.
Scene in a farce calld. The Quaker [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
1783.
Call Number:
783.00.00.08
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four characters participating in the quintet of the first act finale of Dibdin's "The Quaker" are shown here: Gillian and Floretta look over the garden wall while Steady attempts to keep Solomon from conversation with them
Alternative Title:
Scene in a farce called The Quaker
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814., Bannister, John, 1760-1836, and Parsons, William, 1736-1795
Subject (Topic):
Singing, Garden walls, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Scene in a farce calld. The Quaker [graphic].

14.
Date obolum Belisario [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 August 1782]
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:
Leaf 13. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Colonel Barré stands outside a gate in a high brick wall. Shelburne (right) stands, half within, half outside the gate, his left foot on the outside; he has a cynically complacent smile and is putting into Barré's left hand a paper inscribed "Pensi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 24th August 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Belisarius, approximately 505-565., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Garden walls, Pensions, Military uniforms, and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Date obolum Belisario [graphic]

15.
Date obolum Belisario [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 August 1782]
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 13. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Colonel Barré stands outside a gate in a high brick wall. Shelburne (right) stands, half within, half outside the gate, his left foot on the outside; he has a cynically complacent smile and is putting into Barré's left hand a paper inscribed "Pensi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 24th August 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Belisarius, approximately 505-565., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Garden walls, Pensions, Military uniforms, and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Date obolum Belisario [graphic]

16.
Date obolum Belisario [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 August 1782]
Call Number:
782.08.24.01+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 13. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Colonel Barré stands outside a gate in a high brick wall. Shelburne (right) stands, half within, half outside the gate, his left foot on the outside; he has a cynically complacent smile and is putting into Barré's left hand a paper inscribed "Pensi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 24th August 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Belisarius, approximately 505-565., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Garden walls, Pensions, Military uniforms, and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Date obolum Belisario [graphic]

17.
The overthrow of Dr. Slop [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 63. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Obadiah (left) mounted on the coach-horse at full gallop attempts to pull up his horse, leaning back in the saddle, his cap in his right hand. On the ground is Dr. Slop's pony. Behind the pony on the right. Dr. Slop lies on his back; a spotted dog pr...
Alternative Title:
Overthrow of Doctor Slop
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 3d February 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Horseback riding, Accidents, Horses, Dogs, Traffic signs & signals, and Garden walls
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The overthrow of Dr. Slop [graphic]

18.
A view of the Foundling Hospital Vü̈e d'Hopital des Enfans Trouves. [graphic] =

Published / Created:
[ca. 1750]
Call Number:
Folio 75 L847 750
Collection Title:
Leaf 14. London and its environs about 1750.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the hospital, from behind the gates at the end of the long approach; countryside scattered with villages and roads behind; figures in foreground and carriages approaching hospital; in foreground a tavern on the left and part of a walled garde...
Alternative Title:
Vü̈e d'Hopital des Enfans Trouves
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck, near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Foundling Hospital (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Gates, Carriages & coaches, Taverns (Inns), Gardens, and Garden walls
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A view of the Foundling Hospital Vü̈e d'Hopital des Enfans Trouves. [graphic] =

19.
The Royal Palace of Hampton Court Le Palais Royale de Hampton Court. [graphic] =

Published / Created:
[not before 1747]
Call Number:
Folio 75 L847 750
Collection Title:
Leaf 52. London and its environs about 1750.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the palace from the surrounding formal gardens; a brick wall dividing gardens, a fountain and paths in gardens outside palace to the left; in the foreground two trees to the right, figures strolling amongst it and in formal gardens to the lef...
Alternative Title:
Palais Royale de Hampton Court
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond upon Thames (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Castles & palaces, Gardens, Garden walls, Trails & paths, and Fountains
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Royal Palace of Hampton Court Le Palais Royale de Hampton Court. [graphic] =

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