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1. Aeneis
- Creator:
- Virgil
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1470]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1065
- Image Count:
- 118
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an Italian prose paraphrase of Virgil's Aeneid. With an incomplete text on the labors of Hercules
- Description:
- In Italian.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Virgil. and Hercules (Roman mythological character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aeneis
2. Dropsy courting Consumption [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [25 October 1810]
- Call Number:
- Print00265
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An obese man and a tall lean woman, symbolical figures of 'dropsy' and 'consumption', flirting outside a mausoleum; another couple promenade before a statue of Hercules in the background and "A grotesquely obese man (his hat placed under his plump knees) kneels at the feet of an ugly and bedizened woman, fantastically lean and tall. She holds up a fan, and looks down alluringly at her lover to whom she gives her left hand. They are in the circular portico of a 'Mausoleum' (right). In the background is an avenue and a statue of Hercules, towards which a fat woman and a lean parson of the Dr. Syntax type are walking arm-in-arm. The muscular Hercules is contrasted with the four other types of physique represented."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "Price one shilling coloured.", and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dropsy -- Consumption.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. October 25th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Hercules (Roman mythological character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Tuberculosis, Ascites, Costume, Courtship, Obesity, Edema, Sculpture, Fans (Accessories), Clergy, Covered walks, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Dropsy courting Consumption [graphic]
3. From ev'ry blast of war's contagious breath, famine and drought proceed, and plagues, & death [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1760]
- Call Number:
- 760.00.00.21
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- From every blast of war's contagious breath
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Publication place and publisher inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Frontispiece from: The universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure. London : M. Brown, v. 27 (1760)., Four lines of verse below image: Say, wretched rivals! what provokes your rage ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: figure of Justice -- Personifications: figure of Fame -- Personifications: figure of Virtue -- Personifications: figure of Heroic Virtue -- Vices -- Mythology -- Thrones: throne of Virtue -- Literature: quotation from Alexander Pope, 1688-1744.
- Publisher:
- M. Brown
- Subject (Name):
- Hercules (Roman mythological character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Justice, Fame, Vice, and Thrones
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > From ev'ry blast of war's contagious breath, famine and drought proceed, and plagues, & death [graphic].
4. Hercules chasing the Napions [art original]
- Creator:
- Lock, William, 1767-1847, artist
- Published / Created:
- [March 1781]
- Call Number:
- Drawings L813 no. 1 Box D205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title, artist, and date from note inscribed in black ink below image: W. Lock, March 1781. The subject fro this drawing is Hercules chasing the Napions, but the drawing was left unfinished & Hercules does not appear., W. Lock = WIlliam Lock the 2nd., 1767-1847., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Hercules (Roman mythological character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hercules chasing the Napions [art original]
5. Hercules de Farnese [graphic]
- Creator:
- Thomassin, S. (Simon), 1652?-1732, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1732?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of the copy at the Palace of Versailles of the sculpture known as the Farnese Hercules. The figure stands on a pedestal, leaning on a club covered with lion-skin, his right hand behind his back
- Description:
- Title etched within pedestal at bottom of image., Place of publication based on printmaker's city of activity; date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "30" in upper right corner., Mounted on page 136 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.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hercules (Roman mythological character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hercules de Farnese [graphic]
6. [The wedding of the Marquis of Granby] [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [February 1776]
- Call Number:
- 776.02.00.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Allegorical wedding scene, of a draped female accompanied by 3 other women and lead to a circular altar by Cupid, her hand clasped by Hercules. Truth holds up a mirror, while a helmeted Minerva bearing a shield spears a fallen figure holding a snake and serpent. Near the altar stands a bearded priest and his attendants
- Alternative Title:
- To the most noble the Marquis of Granby and his fair Marchioness
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Place of publication from that of the magazine., Date of publication from text above image; the same print is dated 1 April 1776 in the British Museum catalogue., "London mag., Feby. 1776"--Above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate mark indistinguishable at lower edge.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Rutland, Charles Manners, Duke of, 1754-1787, Cupid (Roman deity), and Hercules (Roman mythological character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Marriage, Altars, Torches, and Weddings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The wedding of the Marquis of Granby] [graphic]
