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2.
- Creator:
- Barlow, Inigo, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [October 1794]
- Call Number:
- 794.10.01.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker and artist from the original issue, of which this reissue of the left half only. See The Attic miscellany, v. ii, p. 195, published by Bentley & Co., 1 March 1791, under title, Overthrow of the arts!, Above image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine., Plate from: The Carlton House magazine, Oct. 1794., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the Somerset House -- Military: French soldiers -- Guns: bayoneted muskets.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, British, Artists' materials, and Easels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A scene in Somerset House [graphic].
3.
- Creator:
- Bovi, Marino, 1758- printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [20 March 1786]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait in Van Dyck dress, reclining on steps turned in profile to left, with his knees bent and legs drawn up, right hand at his breast, looking at the viewer, swathed in a cloak with a plumed, broad-brimmed hat, with a book labelled 'Vita Di Rubens' at the foot of a column to left; after a self-portrait."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Richardus Cosway Armiger R.A.
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Early state, with title in light scratched lettering. For a later state with title lettering strengthened, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0814.1224., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1876,1209.145., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 390 (leaf numbered '6' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs March 20th, 1786, by Mno. Bova & E. Diemar, No. 114 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Cosway, Richard, 1740-1821,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Rdus. Cosway Armiger R.A Primarius Pictor Serenissimi Walliae Principis / [graphic]
4.
- Creator:
- Boydell, Josiah, 1752-1817, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 March 1777]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3669.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Plate from: Liber veritatis, or, A collection of two hundred prints / engraved by Richard Earlom from the original drawings owned by the Duke of Devonshire. London: Boydell and Co., 1777., Josiah Boydell (1752-1817), English artist and publisher., and Probably one of the set owned by Horace Walpole and later dispersed. See A.T. Hazen, Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no 3669.
- Publisher:
- Published March 25th, 1777 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside London
- Subject (Name):
- Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Claude Le Lorrain [graphic]
5.
- Creator:
- Brenner, Anita, 1905-
- Published / Created:
- [c1929]
- Call Number:
- 1984 132
- Image Count:
- 5
- Description:
- Includes photographs by Edward Weston and Tina Modotti. and Includes bibliography.
- Publisher:
- Harcourt, Brace
- Subject (Geographic):
- Mexico. and Mexico
- Subject (Topic):
- Art, Indian mythology, Indians of Mexico, Religion, Artists, and Antiquities
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Idols behind altars
6.
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811
- Published / Created:
- [1781?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C22 781
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire on portrait painting: a middle-aged English couple sit together on a dais, each holding a bird in their hand. Their bored son, dressed as Cupid, is seated on a stool in front of them, yawning. They are being painted by an enthusiastic artist wearing spectacles and holding a brush and palette. Two oval portraits hang on the back wall
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication date based on printmaker's known address., Variant of no. 5921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., No. 3 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Birds, Families, Paintings, and Pets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A family picture [graphic]
7.
- Creator:
- Burgess, Thomas, approximately 1730-1791, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1754?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire on the conflict between artists campaigning for a public academy and those who were opposed. William Hogarth (A), shown as the leader of the latter group, rides a peacock. He is followed by (B) probably intended for the journalist Bonnell Thornton, dressed as Mercury, holding a paper lettered "Sr by G[o]d they laugh at us", and (C) Thomas Burgess, a young artist "who etch'd the Club of Artists" [BM Satires 3278]; (D) consists of a group of young followers sheltering behind the peacock's tail. Opposite them stands another group, a "New Club", led by (E) the "Chairman" holding a gavel, probably Francis Hayman, and (F) an older man holding a candle described as a "comic Poet study'd Painter and Chapman". Behind them stand (G), "a Swiss Operator", (H) "a great Projector", (I) "Toast Master General" and others only partly visible; those at the back of this group have peacock feathers in their hats. On the ground between the groups sits (T) "a late Author & Publisher of Scandal". To the right, a child (U) holding a lantern has climbed a tree in search of "Impartiality". Above flies Fame (W) "inspiring the Heros". A zodiacal arc on the left includes a pair of clasped hands (a symbol for mutual trust) lettered "Unknown"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Date from British Museum catalogue is "1762", but the British Museum online catalogue comments (April 2022) suggests 1754 as a more likely date of production., "P. 6d.", Lettered with title above and ten lines of description in lower margin, ending 'Sing Tantararara'., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 295 in volume 3. Formerly dated "1762" in local card catalog.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Burgess, Thomas, approximately 1730-1791, Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776, and Thornton, Bonnell, 1724-1768
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Journalists, Supernatural beings, and Peacocks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The combat [graphic].
8.
- Creator:
- Burgess, Thomas, approximately 1730-1791, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1754?]
- Call Number:
- 754.00.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire on the conflict between artists campaigning for a public academy and those who were opposed. William Hogarth (A), shown as the leader of the latter group, rides a peacock. He is followed by (B) probably intended for the journalist Bonnell Thornton, dressed as Mercury, holding a paper lettered "Sr by G[o]d they laugh at us", and (C) Thomas Burgess, a young artist "who etch'd the Club of Artists" [BM Satires 3278]; (D) consists of a group of young followers sheltering behind the peacock's tail. Opposite them stands another group, a "New Club", led by (E) the "Chairman" holding a gavel, probably Francis Hayman, and (F) an older man holding a candle described as a "comic Poet study'd Painter and Chapman". Behind them stand (G), "a Swiss Operator", (H) "a great Projector", (I) "Toast Master General" and others only partly visible; those at the back of this group have peacock feathers in their hats. On the ground between the groups sits (T) "a late Author & Publisher of Scandal". To the right, a child (U) holding a lantern has climbed a tree in search of "Impartiality". Above flies Fame (W) "inspiring the Heros". A zodiacal arc on the left includes a pair of clasped hands (a symbol for mutual trust) lettered "Unknown"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Date from British Museum catalogue is "1762", but the British Museum online catalogue comments (April 2022) suggests 1754 as a more likely date of production., "P. 6d.", Lettered with title above and ten lines of description in lower margin, ending 'Sing Tantararara'., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Contemporary inscription in lower margin identifies Hogarth as the subject: Hogarth is here introduced with many [illegible].
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Burgess, Thomas, approximately 1730-1791, Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776, and Thornton, Bonnell, 1724-1768
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Journalists, Supernatural beings, and Peacocks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The combat [graphic].
9.
- Creator:
- Cecchi, Giovanni Battista, 1748 or 1749-approximately 1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1770 and 1790?]
- Call Number:
- 770.00.00.191
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Self-portrait of the artist, perhaps in his studio, sitting in front of a desk. A miniature hangs on a small easel beside him; sculpted heads and hands, as well as a painting, hang on the walls behind him. Another sculpted head lies on the floor in the foreground
- Alternative Title:
- Giuseppe Macpherson Pitt
- Description:
- Title engraved on a separate sheet mounted below image., Printmaker Giovanni Battista Cecchi and intermediate draftsman Carlo Bozzolini identified in the Hamburger Kunsthalle online catalogue., This print was apparently part of the "Serie di ritratti de' pittori che se stessi di dipinsero esistenti nella R. Galleria di Toscana," which has been dated 1770-1790. See Hamburger Kunsthalle online catalogue., Engraved border is also printed on a separate sheet and mounted around the sheets with the image and title; for another impression with the exact same arrangement of sheets, see: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. Nr. 57533. For an impression lacking these additional sheets, see: National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D10968., and Sheets trimmed within plate marks.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Macpherson, Giuseppe or Joseph or James, 1720-1792,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Artists' studios, Sculpture, and Miniatures (Paintings)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Giuseppe Magpherson Pitt. nato in Firenze nel 1720, morto nel 1792. [graphic]
10.
- Creator:
- Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1763?]
- Call Number:
- Portraits V568 no. 1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Bust of George Vertue with cap, in oval, looking left, after oil painting by Richardson
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Plate originally issued preceding "The life of George Vertue" in: Walpole, H. Catalogue of engravers. Strawberry-Hill : 1763., and Mounted to 49 x 36 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > George Vertue, engraver aetat. L. ann. MDCCXXXVIII / [graphic]
