"Design in an oval. Dr. Johnson, the head in profile to the right, with an owl's body and ass's ears, stands on two books, the lower his 'Dictionary', the upper his 'Lives of the Poets'. The busts of poets stand on brackets (right) above Johnson's head, each is irradiated with a star-shaped halo. They are "Pope", "Milton", a third head wearing a laurel wreath, the inscription concealed by Johnson's head; a fourth halo (left) is visible. These are "the stars" at which Johnson is blinking, but, though screwing up his eyes short-sightedly, he is not looking at them. The back wall, at right angles to the wall on which the busts are placed, is covered with bookshelves, in which folio volumes lean against one another. An open book lying beside the 'Dictionary' is 'Beauties of Johnson'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Books amplifying subject: Lives of the poets, Johnson's Dictionary, Beauties of Johnson., and Matted to 49 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10th, 1782, by W. Rennie
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, and Milton, John, 1608-1674
Portrait head of a middle-aged woman, directed to right, looking slightly downwards; wearing a plain veil and a gown which conceals her neck
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Pope
Description:
Title from note in pencil in lower left; alternative title from note in pencil in lower right., Signed with the initial "R." in lower right corner; attribution to Jonathan Richardson the Elder from local catalog card., Date written in ink following title., Mounted on page 90 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Pope, Edith, 1642-1733, and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
"Satire on John Rich and his new theatre in Covent Garden with a procession moving from left to right across the east end of the market square and entering the colonnade leading to the theatre. John Gay is carried on a porter's back preceded by a crowd, one of whom cries "Gay for ever". He is followed by Rich, as Harlequin, driving an open carriage drawn by six satyrs, with Columbine and a spotted dog (a disguise adopted by Rich as Harlequin in "Perseus and Andromeda", 1730). Two authors bow obsequiously to Rich, another wheels a barrow of plays towards the theatre, bootblacks also bow, but in the lower right-hand corner, Alexander Pope defecates on sheets from the Beggar's Opera (the great triumph of Rich and Gay). Actors in costume, some identified in the verses below, follow the carriage, and a cart containing properties including "A Box of Thunder and Lightening", brings up the rear. Beyond the main procession is a large crowd of admirers and a closed carriage; St Paul's church in the background is clearly identifiable."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
His triumphant entry into Covent-Garden
Description:
Title etched above image., Signed twice: once in the shadowing lower left of design (illegible) and again above first stanza., Formerly attributed to Hogarth. See Paulson., First recorded as having been published in 1811 by Robert Wilkinson. See British Museum online catalogue., "Price 6d."--Lower right., Three columns of ten lines each etched below image: Not with more glory through the streets of Rome ... For such a day he sees not ev'ry year., In Steevens's hand in pencil above the print: A pretended Hogarth which nevertheless has sold for £4.4.0. See Nicholss book, 3d edit. p. 161., and On page 54 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Covent Garden (London, England)
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Church (Covent Garden, London, England),, Gay, John, 1685-1732,, Hall, John, active 1734,, Quin, James, 1693-1766,, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,, Rich, John, 1692-1761,, Ryan, Lacy, 1694?-1760,, and Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,
Illustration of Canto IV, II, 121 ff.: Sir Plume dispatched by Belinda demands her stolen lock of hair from the Baron
Description:
Title etched below image and above eight lines of verse., "Page 21"--Upper right corner., "Vide Pope's works p. 254"--Following verses., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: J. Ireland's Copy,, and On page 7 in volume 1.
"Satire on the popularity of the Beggar's Opera in the form of a medley print. At top left a print shows two oval portraits, Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum on the left and Thomas Walker as Macheath on the right, two short columns of verse beneath. In the centre lies a print depicting a debased Parnassus: in the foreground muses drink from a barrel, one vomiting; a woman wearing a hat hands a basket to a muse sitting in a dust-cart drawn by a Pegasus; a cornucopia lies upended on the ground: in the background, is a boxing match surrounded on two sides with a temporary stand from which flies the flag of St George and to the right of which a bull and a bear are preceded by Apollo playing a fiddle; beneath are four lines of verse describing the scene. Behind the Parnassus print another shows the ghost of Jeremy Collier rising from his grave holding the pamphlet in which he had condemned "The Immoratlities of the English Stage", four lines of verse beneath. This print is overlaid by a smaller oblong print with four verses and portraits of Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst) Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Lavinia Fenton (as Polly Peachum). On the left is a print in which Democritus and Heraclitus examine a globe together, eight lines of verse beneath. In the centre is an engraved address 'To Polly Peachum' quoted, according to the earlier state from The Daily Journal, April 19, 1728. At lower left is a print with a stage where a Apollo descends on a cloud to judge between rival singers (Faustina and Cuzzoni) to whom a group of gentlemen with asses' ears listen without judgement, two columns of verse beneath explain the scene. On the right, a scene by a river where a balance has been set up in which the Beggar's Opera outweighs Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Addison, Nicholas Rowe and Thomas Otway; the personification of trade collapses in the arms of George II, assisted by Queen Caroline; verses beneath claim that the popularity of the Beggar's Opera is indicative of the sorry state of the country. At bottom right is a scene in Newgate with men and women sitting round a table on which is a punch bowl and pipes; they are toasting a laureated John Gay who sits at the centre, saying 'The Beggers Opera for yr', 'G(a)y for ever', 'Let's vote him King of the Beggers' and he responds, 'Yov'e done me too great an honour but I'll -'; a small child stands beside the table; two columns of verse beneath."-- British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text engraved above image., "Poet G-" refers to John Gay., Later state, lacking references to 'Daily Journal April 19th. 1728' below the verses "to the Tune of the Soldier and ye Sailor" and to 'Daily Journal April 10 1798' below those "To Polly Peacham". Cf. Compare no. 1806 in v. 2 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 45 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732, Gay, John, 1685-1732., Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760, Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744, Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726, Bordoni, Faustina, 1697-1781., Amhurst, N. 1697-1742. (Nicholas),, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Heraclitus, of Ephesus., Democritus, approximately 460 B.C.-approximately 370 B.C., and Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc, Pegasus (Greek mythology), Apollo, Muses (Greek deities), Parnassus, Mount (Greece), Prints, Prisons, and Theaters
Title page in red and black., With a half-title., In this edition the last line of the Dunciad is correctly numbered 620., Horizontal chain lines., Signatures: [A]², B-E⁸, F⁴ (F4 blank), ²A-H⁸, I²., and One of ten volumes rebound in mottled calf by Riviere for Sir William Fraser (1826-1898), three of which are added volumes not Horace Walpole's. With Horace Walpole's bookplate 1 and press-mark K.5.22 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763 (marked 9 vols. but only 7 were sold); moved to the Glass Closet. Also with bookplates of Sir William Fraser, Beverly Chew, and James Wyckoff.
A large cotton handkerchief printed with red ink (madder); the drop head title is printed on a ribbon suspended between two trumpets and is divided after the word 'valentine' by a portrait of Pope. The central cartouche shows three scenes of courtship and is encircled by a knotted ribbon, every other loop in a heart-shape, and contains the lines beginning: I liked you best for true love it is a precious pleasure of a value more than rich mens treasure ... The lines of a love song telling the story of the courtship and marriage of Johnny and Mary are printed in the ribbons flowing on either side of the title ribbon. Along the bottom are two more scenes -- one of the betrothal, the other the wedding -- with two love birds in a small cartouche dividing the two scenes
Alternative Title:
14th Febry, 14th February, and Fourteenth February
Description:
Title from item., 'N's printed backwards in title., Date of printing based on date embroidered on The Lewis Walpole Library copy., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Subject (Topic):
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Couples, Courtship, Cupids, Marriage, and Valentines
View of the trees and field leading down to the Thames River. In the distance is Richmond Hill and Pope's home on the left, as seen from the terrace of Horace Walpole's villa, Strawberry Hill. In the foreground, a cowman sits against the nearest tree as two cows lay in the grass, a third cow stands nearby
Alternative Title:
View of Richmond-Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house from the terrass at Strawberry Hill, 1772
Description:
Title, date and artist information written in ink below image, in an unidentified hand. and Inscribed by Horace Walpole on the verso: View of Richmond-hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house, from the terrass at Strawberry-hill, by Mr. Pars 1772.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Estates
A man sits at a table in his library leaning his head on his hand as he contemplates the sheets of paper before him. An owl sits on the table with a ink well suspended from his mouth and a quill resting in the well. A demon behind the reader holds in his left hand a staff with a jester's head (personification of folly?) and in his right a very large feather. On the scholar's feet a strewn books with words on their spines: Borrow; Boyle; Newton; Radclife; Friend; Mead, etc. Temporary local subject terms: The pictures on the wall are portraits labelled 'Cromwell' and 'Mortimer' but depict Olver Cromwell and Mortimer, Earl of March
Description:
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of verse above image: Here folly, ignorance and pride combine, to prove him of the true Duncean line., Six lines of quotation below image: Studious he sate, with all his books around, sinking from thought to thought a vast profound ..., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 8., and Mounted to 32 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Mortimer, Cromwell, -1752 and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Subject (Topic):
Libraries (Rooms & spaces), Owls, Quacks, and Demons
