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1. Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated. Shakespere [sic] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1794]
- Call Number:
- 794.01.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Bottom sits in an arm-chair directed to the left, wearing spectacles on his ass's forehead. In his right hand is a piece of charcoal in a holder, in his left is a paper, which he is studying. Above his head is etched 'Apollo'. On the left stands a man looking over Bottom's shoulder, his fists clenched. Behind (right) two students (seated) draw from the antique, a nude male statue on a pedestal just above the level of their heads."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image, a line from a speech by the character Quince, from Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream, iii.1.121., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below title: "W_hen Phidias or Raph'el shall chuse to repair, I_ncog to our fine modern Artists' fam'd School, L_ost in wonder to see stuck in Genius's Chair T_he Block which now fills it) a formal old Fool. O_ ff again with this sneering Remark they will go, N_o marvel your Pupils old Friend are so so". JP.", and Initial letters of each line form word 'Wilton.'
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany 1, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Wilton, Joseph, 1722-1803, Richards, John Inigo, 1731-1810, Phidias, approximately 500 B.C.-approximately 430 B.C., Raphael, 1483-1520., Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), and Apollo (Deity)
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists' materials, Artists' models, and Sculptors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated. Shakespere [sic] [graphic].
2. Edme Bouchardon [graphic].
- Creator:
- Beauvarlet, Jacques-Firmin, 1731-1797, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1776]
- Call Number:
- Portraits B752 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Trial proof of the portrait of French sculptor Edme Bouchardon, half-length, sitting in armchair, head turned to right; in oval frame, on pedestal, with sculptor's tools; state with face only lightly sketched in, before any lettering
- Description:
- Title from finished state., Title and date from British Museum online catalogue, registration numbers: 10,0610.66., and Ownership stamp on verso in diamond shape frame: E.L.
- Publisher:
- Beauvarlet?
- Subject (Name):
- Bouchardon, Edme, 1698-1762,
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculptors and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Edme Bouchardon [graphic].
3. Edme Bouchardon sculpteur ordinaire du Roy, professeur en con Académie de peinture & de sculpture, decédé le 27 Juillet 1762 / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Beauvarlet, Jacques-Firmin, 1731-1797, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1776]
- Call Number:
- Portraits B752 no. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of French sculptor Edme Bouchardon, half-length, sitting in armchair, head turned to right; in oval frame, on pedestal, with sculptor's tools"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title in image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 10,0610.66., and Ownership stamp on verso, in diamond shape frame: E.L.
- Publisher:
- Beauvarlet?
- Subject (Name):
- Bouchardon, Edme, 1698-1762,
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculptors and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Edme Bouchardon sculpteur ordinaire du Roy, professeur en con Académie de peinture & de sculpture, decédé le 27 Juillet 1762 / [graphic]
4. Edmond T. Quinn papers, 1918-1928
- Creator:
- Quinn, Edmond T., 1868-1929
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1001
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 128
- Abstract:
- The collection includes photographs of many of Edmond Quinn's sculptures, including portrait busts and statues of Cass Gilbert, Edwin Markham, Clayton Hamilton, Edwin Booth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry Clay, Brander Matthews, James Whistler, James Stephens, Padraic Colum, and Victor Herbert. The collection also includes one photograph of Quinn in his studio with Vicente Blasco Ibáñez; a pencil sketch of James Stephens; letters from Edwina Booth Grossman, Charles De Kay, Winthrop Ames, and others; a draft biography for Who's Who; and clippings documenting the reception of Quinn's work
- Description:
- American sculptor and painter Edmond Thomas Quinn was born December 20, 1868, in Philadelphia, to John and Rosina McLaughlin Quinn. He studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and under Jean-Antoine Injalbert in Paris. Major works include the statue of Edwin Booth as Hamlet in Gramercy Park, New York City, and the World War Memorial in New Rochelle, New York. He married Emily Bradley, of Newport, Rhode Island, in 1917 (she later married Shepherd Stephens). Quinn died in New York City in September, 1929, an apparent suicide by drowning. and In English.
- Subject (Name):
- Ames, Winthrop, 1870-1937., Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente, 1867-1928, Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893, Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972, De Kay, Charles, 1848-1935., Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934, Grossman, Edwina Booth., Hamilton, Clayton Meeker, 1881-1946, Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924, Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940, Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, Quinn, Edmond T., 1868-1929., Stephens, James, 1882-1950, Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, and Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, American and Sculptors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Edmond T. Quinn papers, 1918-1928
5. Ethiopia
- Creator:
- Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968, artist
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1925]
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 137
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 13
- Resource Type:
- three-dimensional form
- Abstract:
- Full-length standing allegorical figure of a woman whose lower portion is in mummy wrappings, and top portion is draped in ancient Egyptian apparel. It is a reduced version of a sculpture designed for the America's Making pageant held in New York in October 1921. Incised at the back of the base: "MVW Fuller" and a copyright symbol
- Description:
- Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. and Title from Renée Ater, Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States.
- Subject (Name):
- Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968.
- Subject (Topic):
- African American sculptors and Sculptors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ethiopia
6. Honle. Mrs. Damer [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cooper, Richard, approximately 1730-1820, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 April 1810]
- Call Number:
- Portraits D157 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A three-quarter length portrait of Mrs. Damer, with sculptor's tools at the base
- Alternative Title:
- Honourable Mrs. Damer
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Artist identified as Angelica Kauffmann in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Frontispiece to: La Belle assemblée, April 1810., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published April 1, 1810, for J. Bell
- Subject (Name):
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828,
- Subject (Topic):
- Women, Sculptors, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Honle. Mrs. Damer [graphic]
7. Honle. Mrs. Damer [realia]
- Creator:
- Cooper, Richard, approximately 1730-1820, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 April 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.04.01.01 Object Room B:D
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A three-quarter length portrait of Mrs. Damer, with sculptor's tools at the base
- Alternative Title:
- Honourable Mrs. Damer
- Description:
- Title from item., Artist identified as Angelica Kauffmann in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate engraved for the frontispiece to La Belle assemblée, April 1810., and With plate maker's name stamped on verso: G. Harris No. 31 Shoe Lane, London.
- Publisher:
- Published April 1, 1810, for J. Bell
- Subject (Name):
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828,
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculptors, British, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Honle. Mrs. Damer [realia]
8. Nicholas Stone Senior Eqn. Mr. Mason to [K.J. the R. C.?]. [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.17
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Oval drawing of Nicholas Stone Senior (1586-1647), leading sculptor, master mason, and architect, in London in the mid-17th century
- Description:
- Title from inscription in ink, below image., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Stone in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 23., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, British, Sculptors, and Architects
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Nicholas Stone Senior Eqn. Mr. Mason to [K.J. the R. C.?]. [art original]
9. Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston
- Creator:
- Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968, artist
- Published / Created:
- [20th century]
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 138 (Art)
- Container / Volume:
- (Art)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- three-dimensional form
- Abstract:
- Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). The engraving was made after a portrait attributed to African American slave and artist Scipio Moorhead. As in the engraving, the words "Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston" appear around the perimeter of the plaque. It is not signed or dated; the attribution to Meta Warrick Fuller was made by Grace Nail Johnson, sister-in-law of the donor
- Description:
- Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century., Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), African American poet in Boston, Massachusetts., Lettering in English., and Title from lettering on plaque.
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States.
- Subject (Name):
- Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968. and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
- Subject (Topic):
- African American sculptors, African American women poets, Poets, American, and Sculptors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston
