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1.
You are desired to accompany the Society of Painters [blank] of [the] clock in Painter Stayners

Creator:
Worshipful Company of Painters
Published / Created:
[approximately 1687]
Call Number:
687.00.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
An invitation to accompany the Society of Painters at St Lukes Feast on Thursday 24 November, 1687 in Painter Stayner's Hall; with a cartouche illustrated with an allegory of the arts with painting in the center, with winged Fame holding a laurel crown In the top corners are emblems of painting and architecture and on the bottom, drawing (disegno) and sculpture as a putto
Alternative Title:
Sr., you are desired to accompany the Society of Painters ... and Sir, you are desired to accompany the Society of Painters ...
Description:
Title from item., Artist from manuscript annotation on earlier state in the British Museum., Later state of the plate, with alterations to allow the invitation to be used for a variety of events; portions of the engraved text have been removed to create spaces for manuscript additions. For an earlier state with engraved text specific to a St. Luke's Feast on 24 November 1687, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1977,U.1223., Date from British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted on board to: 39 x 30 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Worshipful Company of Painters.
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Artists' materials, Angels, Artists, and Putti
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > You are desired to accompany the Society of Painters [blank] of [the] clock in Painter Stayners Hall where you shall be entertain'd by us [blank] [graphic].

2.
A meeting of connoisseurs Assemblée des connoisseurs / [graphic] =

Creator:
Williamson, Thomas, active 1801-1825, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 February 1807]
Call Number:
807.02.02.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in an artist's studio lit from an attic window (left). Four connoisseurs are grouped round a large canvas on an easel: an Apollo with a sheaf of arrows, head turned in profile to the left. The model is a tall black man in the pose of the Apollo but with very different features, the left hand holding the stick of a broom which supports the pose. A fifth connoisseur reaches up to alter the position of the model's head. The artist stands beside his canvas facing the invaders, the left hand, holding palette and brushes, rests on the canvas; he sucks his mahl-stick with a gloomy scowl. On the extreme right a cat sits in a cradle, behind which an alarmed little boy hides. The artist's wife, with an infant in her arms, faces the fire with her back to the visitors whose unwelcome intrusion is apparent. Behind is a bed with drawn curtains. Three casts from the antique decorate the bare room. The model's coat and hat lie on the ground (right). On the far left in the foreground a dog urinates against two canvases leaning against the wall
Alternative Title:
Assemblée des connisseurs
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image. and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 2, 1807, by R. Cribb, 288 Holborn
Subject (Topic):
Apollo, Black people, Artists' studios, Artists' models, Artists' materials, Artists, Brooms & brushes, Windows, Canopy beds, Cradles, Infants, Fireplaces, Boys, Cats, Dogs, and Urination
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A meeting of connoisseurs Assemblée des connoisseurs / [graphic] =

3.
The conclusion of the first volume of the Caricature magazine [graphic]

Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 September 1807]
Call Number:
Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
Collection Title:
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The design is surrounded on the upper and side margins by a festooned curtain; from this, in the upper corners, smiling heads look out supporting a chain of prints, small copies of plates in the volume, overlapping one another. These form a border to the central figure, who stands, like a showman, addressing the spectator, arms extended, opera-hat in his right. hand. He resembles the man who stands chapeau-bras in British Museum satire No. 10889. Behind him (left and right) stand six grinning figures, men and women, who listen to him. All seven are grotesque figures with large heads, typical of Woodward's 'Lilliputians' (cf. Museum Satire No. 9635). He says (the words etched above his head across the centre of the design): "Ladies and Gentlemen having compleated the first volume of the Caricature Magazine I am desired in the names of the Proprietors. Publisher Artists &c. as also from myself and large-long [see British Museum Satire No. 10604, &c], and small headed Bretheren to return you our sincere thanks for the kind reception we have experienced, in this the commencement of our exertions, and at the same time to assure you that neither pains nor expence shall be spared to merit your future patronage, you are requested to be as early as possible in giving your orders for the first number of the second volume, for the present Ladies and Gentlemen we most respectfully take our Leave." At the base of the design, flanking a tablet on which the title is etched in small letters are (left) ink-stand, book: 'Sketches from Nature', and a rolled print or drawing. On the right are painting materials: palette, with brushes, and mahl-stick, small bags of (powdered) colour, porte-crayon, and another print or sketch. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies and gentlemen, having compleated the first volume of Caricature magazine ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Design incorporates small representations of prints included in the Caricature magazine; see British Museum catalogue for identifications of the depicted prints., Central figure is most likely a caricature of G.M. Woodward., Tailpiece to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Watermark: Basted Mill., and Leaf 99 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Published 1st Septr. 1807 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 (George Moutard),
Subject (Topic):
Artists and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The conclusion of the first volume of the Caricature magazine [graphic]

4.
The conclusion of the first volume of the Caricature magazine [graphic]

Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 September 1807]
Call Number:
807.09.01.01+
Collection Title:
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The design is surrounded on the upper and side margins by a festooned curtain; from this, in the upper corners, smiling heads look out supporting a chain of prints, small copies of plates in the volume, overlapping one another. These form a border to the central figure, who stands, like a showman, addressing the spectator, arms extended, opera-hat in his right. hand. He resembles the man who stands chapeau-bras in British Museum satire No. 10889. Behind him (left and right) stand six grinning figures, men and women, who listen to him. All seven are grotesque figures with large heads, typical of Woodward's 'Lilliputians' (cf. Museum Satire No. 9635). He says (the words etched above his head across the centre of the design): "Ladies and Gentlemen having compleated the first volume of the Caricature Magazine I am desired in the names of the Proprietors. Publisher Artists &c. as also from myself and large-long [see British Museum Satire No. 10604, &c], and small headed Bretheren to return you our sincere thanks for the kind reception we have experienced, in this the commencement of our exertions, and at the same time to assure you that neither pains nor expence shall be spared to merit your future patronage, you are requested to be as early as possible in giving your orders for the first number of the second volume, for the present Ladies and Gentlemen we most respectfully take our Leave." At the base of the design, flanking a tablet on which the title is etched in small letters are (left) ink-stand, book: 'Sketches from Nature', and a rolled print or drawing. On the right are painting materials: palette, with brushes, and mahl-stick, small bags of (powdered) colour, porte-crayon, and another print or sketch. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies and gentlemen, having compleated the first volume of Caricature magazine ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Design incorporates small representations of prints included in the Caricature magazine; see British Museum catalogue for identifications of the depicted prints., Central figure is most likely a caricature of G.M. Woodward., Tailpiece to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published 1st Septr. 1807 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 (George Moutard),
Subject (Topic):
Artists and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The conclusion of the first volume of the Caricature magazine [graphic]

5.
The Honble. Mrs. Parker [graphic]

Creator:
Watson, Thomas, 1745?-1797, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[25 October 1773]
Call Number:
SH Contents R462 no. 4++ Box 310
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1396); whole-length, standing directed to front, head turned in profile to right, leaning with her right elbow on a pedestal bearing a large urn, her left hand on her right arm; hair high and curled, a robe over her dress; a woodland landscape behind with stream to right"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Honourable Mrs. Parker
Description:
Title engraved in image. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark. Bottom corners trimmed at an angle.
Publisher:
Publish'd. Octr. 25th 1773 for S. Hooper No. 25 Ludgate Street; W. Shropshire No. 158 & T. Watson No. 142 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Parker, Theresa, 1745-1775,
Subject (Topic):
Artists and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Honble. Mrs. Parker [graphic]

6.
George Morland [graphic]

Creator:
Ward, William, 1766-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1805]
Call Number:
805.01.01.07
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait seen seated half-length within rectangular frame, almost in profile to left drawing, eyes to front; wearing plain coat and necktie."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English mezzotint portraits and their states., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of all inscriptions. Description based on impression of the third state in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1950,0520.142.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1805, by J. Harris, Gerrard Street, Soho
Subject (Topic):
Artists and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > George Morland [graphic]

7.
Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Call Number:
49 2615
Image Count:
92
Abstract:
A collection of notes by Horace Walpole over the course of three years -- 1759, 1771, 1786 -- on a very wide range of topics. The volumes for 1759 and 1771 include: notes on books he is reading; observations about historical events and historical figures are interspersed with observations about current political topics and prominent social figures. His strong interest in art is reflected in the predominance of his observations on architecture, painters, paintings, prints, and printmakers; descriptions of fine houses, their contents and owners; clippings from newspapers: notices of forthcoming auctions and newly published books of or about art and artists; poems celebrating artists; death notices of artists and printmakers as well as poetry celebrating the lives of artists. The volume for 1786 also includes observations about books that Walpole is reading, generally on antiquarian topics, English history, etc.; anecdotes about his friends and prominent society figures; comments on historical events, including debates on the slave and trade and the events in France; thoughts on Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare, Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Lady Lyttleton, Lord North, Lord and Lady Salisbury, Mrs. Clive, and other prominent public figures of the period; fragments of epigrams and poems
Description:
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister., In English., Available in pdf format, Two volumes (1759 and 1771) bound in green vellum, one volume (1786) in red morocco with clasps. With Walpole's bookplate 2, in early state, in the 2nd volume and his seal as Lord Orford, type, in the 3rd volume. Each volume signed and dated., Photostat of vol.1 available, Unverified and incomplete transcripts of v. 1 (1759) and v.2 (1771)., and Two volumes in green vellum; one in red morocco with clasps. Bookplate 2 early state, in the second volume (1771); and seal as Lord Orford, type 1, in the third volume. Each volume signed and dated.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786

8.
Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Call Number:
49 2615
Image Count:
275
Abstract:
A collection of notes by Horace Walpole over the course of three years -- 1759, 1771, 1786 -- on a very wide range of topics. The volumes for 1759 and 1771 include: notes on books he is reading; observations about historical events and historical figures are interspersed with observations about current political topics and prominent social figures. His strong interest in art is reflected in the predominance of his observations on architecture, painters, paintings, prints, and printmakers; descriptions of fine houses, their contents and owners; clippings from newspapers: notices of forthcoming auctions and newly published books of or about art and artists; poems celebrating artists; death notices of artists and printmakers as well as poetry celebrating the lives of artists. The volume for 1786 also includes observations about books that Walpole is reading, generally on antiquarian topics, English history, etc.; anecdotes about his friends and prominent society figures; comments on historical events, including debates on the slave and trade and the events in France; thoughts on Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare, Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Lady Lyttleton, Lord North, Lord and Lady Salisbury, Mrs. Clive, and other prominent public figures of the period; fragments of epigrams and poems
Description:
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister., In English., Available in pdf format, Two volumes (1759 and 1771) bound in green vellum, one volume (1786) in red morocco with clasps. With Walpole's bookplate 2, in early state, in the 2nd volume and his seal as Lord Orford, type, in the 3rd volume. Each volume signed and dated., Photostat of vol.1 available, Unverified and incomplete transcripts of v. 1 (1759) and v.2 (1771)., and Two volumes in green vellum; one in red morocco with clasps. Bookplate 2 early state, in the second volume (1771); and seal as Lord Orford, type 1, in the third volume. Each volume signed and dated.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786

9.
Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786

Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Call Number:
49 2615
Image Count:
73
Abstract:
A collection of notes by Horace Walpole over the course of three years -- 1759, 1771, 1786 -- on a very wide range of topics. The volumes for 1759 and 1771 include: notes on books he is reading; observations about historical events and historical figures are interspersed with observations about current political topics and prominent social figures. His strong interest in art is reflected in the predominance of his observations on architecture, painters, paintings, prints, and printmakers; descriptions of fine houses, their contents and owners; clippings from newspapers: notices of forthcoming auctions and newly published books of or about art and artists; poems celebrating artists; death notices of artists and printmakers as well as poetry celebrating the lives of artists. The volume for 1786 also includes observations about books that Walpole is reading, generally on antiquarian topics, English history, etc.; anecdotes about his friends and prominent society figures; comments on historical events, including debates on the slave and trade and the events in France; thoughts on Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare, Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Lady Lyttleton, Lord North, Lord and Lady Salisbury, Mrs. Clive, and other prominent public figures of the period; fragments of epigrams and poems
Description:
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister., In English., Available in pdf format, Two volumes (1759 and 1771) bound in green vellum, one volume (1786) in red morocco with clasps. With Walpole's bookplate 2, in early state, in the 2nd volume and his seal as Lord Orford, type, in the 3rd volume. Each volume signed and dated., Photostat of vol.1 available, Unverified and incomplete transcripts of v. 1 (1759) and v.2 (1771)., and Two volumes in green vellum; one in red morocco with clasps. Bookplate 2 early state, in the second volume (1771); and seal as Lord Orford, type 1, in the third volume. Each volume signed and dated.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Book of materials, 1759, 1771, 1786

10.
[A literary party at Sir. Joshua Reynolds] [graphic]

Creator:
Walker, William, 1791-1867, engraver
Published / Created:
[1 July 1848]
Call Number:
Drawer 848.07.01.09
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Group portrait of nine men seated around a table set with fruit and decanters; they are served by a black page. Boswell is on the left, with Johnson to his right talking to Edmund Burke; Reynolds is seated across from Johnson and listens with a trumpet to his ear. Garrick to the left of Reynolds faces the viewer, while Pasquale Paoli to his left observes Johnson conversing at the far end of the table. Charles Burney across from Paoli also follows the same conversation, as he rests his right hand on his chin. Next to Paoli, Warton leans toward Oliver Goldsmith who sits at the head of the table on the right; Warton holds his hand up towards his mouth as if to keep his words confidential. The room is richly decorated with a Japanese screen on the right, curtains, a miniature portrait, and a portrait bust on a pedestal on the left; Reynolds' pictures of Puck (Mannings 2142) and the Infant Academy (Mannings 2092) hanging on the wall and a bright chandelier hangs above the table
Description:
Title from later state in the British Museum., Also etched below is a facsimilie the nine individuals' signatures., and Tear badly repaired with tape, lower right corner. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published July 1st 1848 by the proprietors Wm. Walker, 64 Margaret St., Cavendish Sqre., & Owen Bailey, 128 Seymour St. Euston Sqre
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Burke, Edmund,, 1740-1797,, Burney, Charles, 1726-1814,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779,, Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774,, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Paoli, Pasquale, 1725-1807,, Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792,, and Warton, Thomas, 1728-1790,
Subject (Topic):
Dinner parties, Dining rooms, Artists, British, Authors, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A literary party at Sir. Joshua Reynolds] [graphic]

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