Depiction of the dream of Horace Walpole that inspired him to write The castle of Otranto. The fantastic scene involves a large armored hand perched atop an enormous staircase ascending four levels within a Gothic castle. Two suits of armor stand guard at the junctions of the staircase with each level, and two more are present in the foreground, suggesting that the staircase continues downward. Arched windows and a painting of a mounted knight are seen on the wall to the left of the staircase; a bat is seen flying above
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 93., and Bound as page 195 in volume 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
"A hand-coloured plate divided into four compartments. Waiting for Dinner: an impatient diner shows his servant the time as the servant uncorks a bottle; At Dinner: a man heartily eats as the servant pours wine; After Dinner: A man leans back in his chair as a maid clears the table; Preparing for Supper: A maid puts a napkin on a diner who is guided into his chair by a servant."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Description:
Title from collective title etched at bottom of plate., Artist signature below lower left design; printmaker signature below lower right design., Four designs on one plate, each individually titled within an etched and aquatinted border., Description based on impression in the Royal Collection, RCIN 810354., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : aquatint and etching on laid paper, hand-colored; sheet 21 x 26 cm., and Imperfect; only lower left design entitled "After dinner" present. The three other designs on plate, the collective title, and the imprint statement have been trimmed from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 22, 1789, by S. Alken, No. 2 Francis Street East, Bedford Square
Subject (Topic):
Bottles, Bowls (Tableware), Dining rooms, Fireplaces, Glassware, Interiors, Obesity, Pipes (Smoking), Stairways, Tableware, Tobacco, Wine, and Women domestics
publish'd according to act of Parliament, July 1st 1769.
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire, with references to the Duke of Grafton and Nancy Parsons and Lord Bute and Princess Augusta."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Quality dinner hour
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's announcement following publication statement: Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of The Court miscellany., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: The great in one eternal round, of folly and excess are found ..., Companion print to: High life at noon., Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: staircase -- Furnishings -- Dishes: covered dishes -- Hams -- Roasted fowl -- Pets: lapdog -- Male dress, 1769 -- Female dress, 1769., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 21.5 x 32.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of publication line from bottom edge., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 60 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, and Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, d. 1814 or 15
publish'd according to act of Parliament, July 1st 1769.
Call Number:
769.07.01.01+
Collection Title:
Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire, with references to the Duke of Grafton and Nancy Parsons and Lord Bute and Princess Augusta."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Quality dinner hour
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's announcement following publication statement: Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of The Court miscellany., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: The great in one eternal round, of folly and excess are found ..., Companion print to: High life at noon., and Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: staircase -- Furnishings -- Dishes: covered dishes -- Hams -- Roasted fowl -- Pets: lapdog -- Male dress, 1769 -- Female dress, 1769.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, and Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, d. 1814 or 15
A very thin, fobbish man with a walking stick tucked under his arm, walks down a staircase, smelling the tip of his finger (one of a sub-series of the Five Senses)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Lettered in the image 'G de Cari' twice and 'Maleuvre sculp' once., Series title and number from caption above image., Description based on imperfect impression. Series title and numbering and dimensions from impression in the British Museum., This plate was entered in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 29 March 1817. See British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1990,0303.23., and "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libre., rue du Coq, no. 15
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, French, Odors, Staffs (Sticks), and Stairways
Leaf 82. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Print of a pair of travellers who struggle with slippers during their stay at an inn. One man is helped as he removes his boots with the aid of a boot jack. Another traveller falls backwards from the stairs as his well-used and oversized slippers fall from his feet. A maid carrying a candle and with a bed pan, waits for the men. A well furnished room marked 'Travellers Room' in the background."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miseries of traveling and At an inn, after pulling off your boots, the option of going barefoot the rest of the evening ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Five lines of descriptive text below title: At an inn, after pulling off your boots, the option of going barefoot the rest of the evening or expatiating in a pair of boundless slippers ..., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published in 1807, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810672., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 82 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Slippers, Boots, Stairways, Falling, Accidents, Women domestics, Candles, and Bedpans
A drawing proposed by Bentley whilst a member of the "Strawberry Committee" along with John Chute and Horace Walpole, of the staircase and hall at Strawberry Hill. On the verso, a light pencil sketch of a reclining figure
Alternative Title:
Perspective of the hall and staircase at Strawberry Hill and Staircase at Strawberryhill
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso., Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount between two drawings on the same subject: Staircase at Strawberryhill., Date from: Harris, J. Catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening, 1550-1900, in American collections. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Gregg Press, [1971], page 26., and Formerly mounted on the lower half of leaf 30 with another sketch of the staircase in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Interior of the Session House; a large domed ceiling above central space where groups of people gather; stairs at far end leading up to a platform above door, looking out onto a large room beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 70., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 45., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1809 W. Balston.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Government facilities, Interiors, Stairways, and Domes
Drawing of the stairway at Strawberry Hill; on display in an alcove on the left is the armor of Francis I.
Description:
Title written on mount below image., Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount., Image later engraved by James Newton for: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, 1784, opposite page 30., and Mounted on page 70 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A view of the stairway at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham; on display in an alcove on the left is the armor of Francis I.
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered in upper right corner: "Vol. II. P. 439"., Plate from: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798-1825, vol. ii., and First state of the plate, without volume and page numbering, engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Publisher:
G.G. and J. Robinson
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
