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1. Gold, Iv'ry, Coral, Africa may boast, ... [graphic]
- Creator:
- Moore, James, active approximately 1761-1763, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [before 1765]
- Call Number:
- 765.00.00.97+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two Africans on a shore, one on the left kneeling with one foot in the water and plants in his hand, the other standing, holding a spear and looking up at a third man who passes, riding a laden elephant; a palm tree, lion and elephant in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Gold, Ivory, Coral, Africa may boast, ...
- Description:
- Title from the first line of verse below image., Printmaker from Chaloner Smith., Before 1765 (see British Museum online catalogue)., Verse continue: ... But whilst those regions feel too fierce a blaze, And brute-like Natives blacken all the Coast, They more our Pity, than our Envy, raise., See Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, volume 3, page 941 for mention of an earlier state of this series of four plates "Quarters of the World": "Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden Head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street"., One of a series of four allegorical prints, the others depicting Asia, America, and Europe., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides; trimmed within plate mark at bottom edge.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Elephants, Spears, Palms, Earrings, and Pearls
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Gold, Iv'ry, Coral, Africa may boast, ... [graphic]
2. Lucy Waters [art original]
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H263 no. 7 Box D125
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Half-length portrait of Lucy Walter, turned slightly left and looking at the viewer; wearing a pearl necklace, pearl earings, and a blue gown adorned with strings of pearls
- Description:
- Titled by the artist within lower border., Signed in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Date of production supplied by cataloger, based on the dates of similar drawings by G.P. Harding at The Lewis Walpole Library., Note in pencil beneath lower border: From the miniature at Strawberry Hill., Drawn after the miniature owned by Horace Walpole and kept in his Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels at Strawberry Hill. Walpole believed the miniature to have been painted by Samuel Cooper, but it has since been reattributed to Nicholas Dixon; see Christie's sale catalogue "Fine miniatures, enamels and object of art and vertu", 6 July 1965, lot 36., and A print entitled "Lucy Barlow alias Waters", published by Harding's father Sylvester in 1802 for The biographical mirrour, was probably engraved from this drawing; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Contents H263 no. 16.
- Subject (Name):
- Walter, Lucy, 1630?-1658, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Pearls and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lucy Waters [art original]
