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"A rainbow on a dark cloud falling precisely behind the tower of a neighboring church" [art

Creator:
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of a church steeple rising above a lush stand of trees in the foreground and middle distance, the arc of a rainbow directly behind the cross at its top and across the width of the drawing; with dark clouds above. On the hills on the right a to...
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation from Horace Walpole's letter to George Montagu, written in May, 1763: We walked to the Belvidere on the summit of the hill, where a theatrical storm only served to heighten the beauty of the landscape, a rai...
Subject (Topic):
Steeples and Rainbows
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "A rainbow on a dark cloud falling precisely behind the tower of a neighboring church" [art original]

3.
Design of a fictitious steeple for Nich. Hardinge Esq. of Kingston [art original].

Creator:
Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:
[1753]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3585 leaf 40 Box 3
Collection Title:
Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the recto, a drawing showing a Gothic steeple with a clock on a section of tile roof. On the verso, a small pencil sketch of a detail of a clock?
Alternative Title:
Design for Nich. Hardinge Esq. by R. Bentley 1753
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's note in ink on mount below drawing.
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches and Steeples
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Design of a fictitious steeple for Nich. Hardinge Esq. of Kingston [art original].

4.
Jack French-man's defeat : being an excellent new song to a pleasant tune called There was a fair

Published / Created:
[1708]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Verse begins: "Ye commons and peers,"
Publisher:
sold by Benjamin Bragge
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Steeples, Campaigns & battles, Massacres, and History
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Jack French-man's defeat : being an excellent new song to a pleasant tune called There was a fair maid in the North-country came triping over the plain, &c.