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21.
A figure that appear'd in a Mazarine gown at the King of Denmarks masquerade ball [graphic]

Published / Created:
[not before 10 October 1768]
Call Number:
768.10.10.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Mr. Harley, with a very large belly and a shirt with lace trim, standing full-length in profile to right wearing on his head a cuckold's horns from which hangs a sign "A room to lett unfurnish'd". From his mouth a bubble reading, "I am one of the head...
Alternative Title:
Figure that appeared in a Mazarine gown
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Oxford Magazine
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Harley, Thomas, 1730-1804
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, City council members, Horns (Anatomy), Masquerades, and Obesity
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A figure that appear'd in a Mazarine gown at the King of Denmarks masquerade ball [graphic]

22.
A masquerade [graphic].

Published / Created:
[4 April 1795]
Call Number:
795.04.04.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 4th April 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Punch and Judy, Falstaff, John, Turks, Devil, and Masquerades
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A masquerade [graphic].

23.
A view of the canal, Chinese building, rotunde [sic], in Ranelagh Gardens, with masquarade [sic

Published / Created:
[approximately 1765]
Call Number:
765.00.00.94+
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of Ranelagh Gardens during a masquarade, with the revellers wearing masks. After a design by Canaletto. For an engraving of the same scene in reverse, published by Robert Sayer in 1752, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 188...
Alternative Title:
View of the canal, Chinese building, rotunda, &c. in Ranelagh Gardens, with masquerade, Vüe du canal, du batiment chinois, de la rotunda, &c. des Jardins de Ranelagh, un jour de masquarade, and Masquerade angloise
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Ranelagh Gardens (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Canals, Gardens, Rotundas, and Masquerades
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A view of the canal, Chinese building, rotunde [sic], in Ranelagh Gardens, with masquarade [sic] Vüe du canal, du batiment chinois, de la rotunda, &c. des Jardins de Ranelagh, un jour de masquarade / [graphic] =

25.
Hei! Degeror O! I am undone [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1724 and 1727]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Satire on John Heidegger and the taste for the masquerades which he promoted. A London street scene in the foreground of which Heidegger sprawls on the ground, his watch and coins falling from his pocket, as he begs mercy of Hercules. Hercules, clad ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748. and Hercules (Roman mythological character),
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), City & town life, Clergy, Costumes, Dogs, and Masquerades
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Hei! Degeror O! I am undone [graphic].

26.
Iphigenia [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1 May 1749]
Call Number:
Quarto 53 C46 776
Collection Title:
Opposite page 15. Trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An engraving, showing a scene from the Venetian Ambassadors Masquerade in which Miss Chudleigh appears wearing stockings, shoes, and a tunic, the last covering only a very small portion of her person, and taking off her mask on being seized round the ...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 and Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Masquerades
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Iphigenia [graphic].

27.
Ridotto al' fresco, or, The humours of Spring Gardens [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1740?]
Call Number:
740.00.00.07.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Humours of Spring Gardens
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Geo. Foster at the White Horse opposite the north gate in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Masks, and Masquerades
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Ridotto al' fresco, or, The humours of Spring Gardens [graphic].

28.
Rural masquerade dedicated to the regatta'ites [graphic].

Published / Created:
[9 July 1776]
Call Number:
776.07.09.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A grotesque bearded head attached to the body of a woman faces right under an enormous coiffure. Within the hair a scene in the top panel depicts a masquerade in a garden setting. A lower scene shows boats and barges, a reference to the first English...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act of Parlt. July 9, 1776 by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Sque
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Regattas, and Masquerades
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Rural masquerade dedicated to the regatta'ites [graphic].

29.
The breeches in the fiera maschereta [graphic].

Published / Created:
25 Apl. 1775.
Call Number:
775.04.25.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An enormous pair of breeches reaching from the head to the feet of the wearer, and forming his (or her) sole visible garment. A face in profile to the right. appears through an unbuttoned aperture; on the wearer's head is a ducal coronet surmounted b...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Maxwell, Jane, approximately 1749-1812.
Subject (Topic):
Masquerades and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The breeches in the fiera maschereta [graphic].

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