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55. [Black-eyed Susan] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [28 December 1780]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 22. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 27. Bunbury
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A woman sitting in a boat, waving as her dog looks longingly towards the right, land and ships on the sea behind; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from that of a later copy, published 1 November 1792 by W. Dickinson. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.120., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility added in ink below image: Mr. Bunbury del. ; Js. Bretherton fec., Date of publication from imprint statement added in ink in lower left corner: Publishd. 28 Decbr. 1780., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to John Gay's poem 'Sweet William's farewell to black-ey'd Susan'., and Mounted on page 22 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Boats, Dogs, and Farewells
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Black-eyed Susan] [graphic].
56. [Blouzelind] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [28 December 1780]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 25. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a field, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet, behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility added in ink below image: Mr. Bunbury del. ; Js. Bretherton fec., State before letters. For a lettered state bearing title, artist and printmaker names, one line of verse below title, and the publication line "Publish'd 1 March 1781 by I. Bretherton, New Bond Street", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 781.03.01.02+., Date of publication from imprint statement added in ink in lower left corner: Publishd. 28 Decbr. 1780., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to John Gay's poem 'The shepherd's week'., and Mounted on page 25 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Spinning apparatus and Corsages
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Blouzelind] [graphic].
57. [English poets] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Parker, James, 1750-1805, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Dec. 1797.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 812 B68
- Collection Title:
- Plate [186] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions Pattison, Congreave, Gay, Pope, Swift and Thomson on a monolith, at the foot of which a nymph sits holding a jester's staff, watched by a faun climbing over the top."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [186] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
- Subject (Name):
- Pattison, William, 1706-1727,, Congreve, William, 1670-1729,, Gay, John, 1685-1732,, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,, Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745,, and Thomson, James, 1700-1748,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [English poets] [graphic]
58. [Marian] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Baldrey, John, 1758- printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd May 12th, 1781.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 31. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A maid in simple dress sitting in profile to right on a rock in a hilly landscape, holding the handle of a bucket on the ground beside her, a figure on horseback on a path about to crest the hill in the distance at right; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from later state., Initial letters form a monogram in both artist's name and printmaker's name in signatures., "First state with scratched letters"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.121., For a later state, published 20 May 1781 by J. Baldrey and sold by E. Hedges, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3004., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Cicely., and Mounted on page 31 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Women domestics, Pails, and Hills
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Marian] [graphic]
59. [Monument to John Gay] [art original]
- Creator:
- Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1738?]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.3
- Collection Title:
- Volume 3, after page 214. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of the monument to John Gay in Westminster Abbey; a sculptural bust of Gay, in profile to the right, sits in an oval and rests on a plinth supported by a cherub to the left, who drapes a cloth over the right side of the oval. An obelisk with ornaments is behind, all beneath an arch supported by columns. A memorial by Alexander Pope is inscribed on the plinth, and a dedication from the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry is inscribed at the bottom of the monument
- Description:
- Titled devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Possibly a design drawing for an engraving with the signatures "H. Gravelot delin." and "J. Scotin sculp." and the publication line "Publish'd Sep. 29, 1738, by J. & P. Knapton & T. Cox". This plate was issued as the frontispiece to: Fables. By the late Mr. Gay. Volume the second. London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738., and Mounted after page 214 (leaf numbered '108' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732, and Westminster Abbey.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Monument to John Gay] [art original]
60. [Patty] [graphic].
- Creator:
- White, Charles William, active 1775-1807, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 99. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young woman standing whole-length to front in a checked skirt, head turned in profile to left and wearing a bonnet, holding a straw hat in her right hand and the other resting at her waist; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title from earlier state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on earlier state: H.W. Bunbury Esqr. delt. ; C.W. White sculpt., Later state, with image reduced to an oval and background elements added. For an earlier state published 28 March 1783 by C.W. White, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1940,1109.114., Sheet trimmed to oval shape along border of image, with possible loss of text., Illustration to John Gay's Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London., and Mounted on page 99 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Patty] [graphic].
61. [The Beggar's Opera] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1728]
- Call Number:
- LWL Ptg. 107 Framed, on view in Long Hall
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene from the Beggar’s Opera as performed and perhaps witnessed by Hogarth. The scene (Act III, Scene II) is the last. Set in Newgate prison. At center stage, is the highwayman Macheath, chained (played by Thomas Walker) wearing red. Two women who believe they are married to him plead for his life as he is sentenced to the gallows. To his left, Lucy Lockit with her back to the audience (played by Mrs. Egleton) is dressed in blue. She pleads with her father the prison warden (John Hall). On his right Polly Peachum (played by Lavinia Fenton) dressed in white with a pink sash, pleads with her father, a dishonest lawyer and informant (played by John Hippisley). The actors are flanked by an audience members privileged to sit in boxes on the stage. Among these is John Rich the impresario of the play. Cf. Einberg
- Alternative Title:
- Horace Walpole’s Copy of A Beggar’s Opera
- Description:
- Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Artist unidentified., Formerly attributed to William Hogarth. See R. Paulson, Hogarth: his life, art and times, pp. 26-7, pl. 45., In a contemporary gilt Rococo frame., Label on verso in Horace Walpole's with a note in his hand: "Sketch of the Beggar’s opera as first performed: Macheath, in red, by Walker. Polly kneeling, in white, by Miss Fenton, afterwards Duches of Bolton: Lucy in green, her face turned away, by Mrs. Eggleton; Peacham, in black by Hippisley; Lockit, by Hall. Amongst the audience, on the left hand, Sir Thomas Robinson of Rokeby, a tall gentleman with a long lean face; on the right, Sir Robert Faggs, profile, a fat man with short grey hair, much known at Newmarket. Painted by Hogarth. H.W.", Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: The original sketch of The Beggar's Opera, representing Walker as Macheath; Miss Fenton, afterwards Duchess of Bolton, as Polly, Hippisley, as Peach'em; Hall as Lockit; on one side in a box are Sir Thomas Robinson, very tall and lean, and Sir Robert Flagg, a famous Horse racer, fat, with short grey hair, by Hogarth. This highly interesting and curious picture was purchased at the sale of John Rich, the celebrated Harlequin and Master of the Theatres in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields and Covent Garden, for whom the picture was painted - it is in its pure and genuine state, and presents one of the most remarkable efforts of this original master., Text from the 1774 edition of Horace Walpole's Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, at Strawberry Hill: The original sketch of the Beggar's Opera: Walker as Macheath; miss Fenton, afterwards duchess of Bolton, as Polly; Hippisley, as Peach'em; Hall as Lockit: on one side in a box, sir Thomas Robinson, very tall and lean; sir Robert Fagg, a famous horse-racer, fat, with short grey hair: by Hogarth. Bought at the sale of John Rich, the well known harlequin, and master of the theatres in Lincoln's-inn-fields and Covent-garden, for whom the picture was painted. Formerly hung in the Great North Bedchamber, Strawberry Hill., and Title devised by curator.
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The Beggar's Opera] [art original].
