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1. La folie par la décrépitude des ajustemens de la jeunesse [graphic] / peint au pastel par Ch. Coypel ; gravé par L. Surugue end 1745
- Creator:
- Surugue, Louis, approximately 1686 -1762, printmaker, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [1745]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Allegorical scene with Decrepitude as an old woman in extravagant costume putting another beauty spot on her face and looking at her reflection in a mirror on a washstand, while Madness personified by young woman with fool's bauble hanging from a sash is helping her getting dressed; above them, Cupid flying with arrow in his hand."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See no. 2211 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and On page 72 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- Chez L. Surugue graveur du roy ruë des Noyers, attenant le Magazin de Papier vis-a-vis St. Yves, A.P.D.R.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Name):
- Ward, John, 1678-1758
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial, Aging, Clothing & dress, Cupids, Cosmetics, Dressing tables, Mirrors, and Women domestics
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > La folie par la décrépitude des ajustemens de la jeunesse [graphic] / peint au pastel par Ch. Coypel ; gravé par L. Surugue end 1745
2. [Invitation to the funeral of Dr. John Ward] [graphic] / Coypel invt. ; Thos. Loveday sculp
- Published / Created:
- [1758]
- Call Number:
- File 66 758 In62+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- An invitation to the funeral of Dr. John Ward, Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and trustee of the Britisih Museum
- Alternative Title:
- Sir, you are desired to attend the funeral of Dr. John Ward
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Added title from letterpress text set in the image., Possibly Charles Antoine Coypel (printmaker; painter/draughtsman; French; 1694-1752)? J. Loveday amateur printmaker?, First line of text: Sir, you are desired to attend the funeral of Dr. John Ward, from his apartments in Gresham College to the burying-ground at Bunhill ... the 24th of October, 1758 ..., and Lewis Walpole Library impression: With extensive contemporary annotations including a transcription of the Latin text on Ward's monument on the verso. Newspaper clipping of his obituary from October 18 mounted above the image and numbered "323". The sheet has been trimmed with a loss of the name of the addressee and other text[?] on verso and recto. With ms. note laid in, possibly a transcription for a caption with biographical details of John Ward and signed: "[...]bster pinxit ; Jacobus Macardell scalpsit."
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Ward, John, 1678-1758
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial, Memorial rites & ceremonies, Death, Monuments & memorials, and Memorials
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Invitation to the funeral of Dr. John Ward] [graphic] / Coypel invt. ; Thos. Loveday sculp
