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1. Bookseller & author [graphic]
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 September 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.09.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the center of a book-lined room the bookseller, with a pen behind his ear, his hands in his pockets, glasses pushed to the top of his head, stands looking down disdainfully at a manuscript being offered to him by a thin, timid looking man who stands nervously with his hat tucked under his arm. A clergyman with spectacles, his back to the two other gentlemen, perusing the shelves, stops to examine a volume. In the left foreground on the floor, in front of a library step stool, is a pile of books. Another pile of books lies in the right foreground in front of a door with a glass panel and curtains in the top half. To the left of the door is a slooping writing table with paper, ink stand, and pen
- Alternative Title:
- Bookseller and author
- Description:
- Title from item. and Attributed by Grego and George to Rowlandson who occasionally published under Henry Wigstead's name.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Septr. 25, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, Bookstores, Clergy, and Publishers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bookseller & author [graphic]
2. Cedric Dover
- Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Published / Created:
- 1948 Feb 25
- Call Number:
- Za V375 +2
- Collection Title:
- Photographs made by him
- Container / Volume:
- v. 11 Donahoe - Dufy
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- Cedric Dover (1904 - 1961) was an Anglo-Indian author and sociologist.
- Description:
- Stamped verso: ""Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. / 146 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission.""
- Subject (Name):
- Dover, Cedric
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Indians and Authors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cedric Dover
3. Dominus Gulielmus Temple Eques Baronettus [graphic]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1720]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Sir William Temple, half-length to right, with head turned to front, looking towards left; wearing a wig, loose gown, and lace cravat; in an oval frame decorated on top with Acanthus leaves and ribbon lettered with motto "Servare modum [...] sequi.", placed on a pedestal, with coat of arms in front."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Frontipiece to: The works of Sir William Temple. London : Printed for A. Churchill, T. Goodwin, J. Knapton, R. Smith, B. Tooke [and 6 others in London], 1720., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of Latin text below title: Sermi. et Potmi. Mag. Brittanniae Regis ad Ords. Faedti. Belgÿ̈ Legatus ..., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 76 (leaf numbered '125' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- A. Churchill, T. Goodwin, J. Knapton, R. Smith, B. Tooke, and 6 others
- Subject (Name):
- Temple, William, 1628-1699,
- Subject (Topic):
- Diplomats, British, and Authors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dominus Gulielmus Temple Eques Baronettus [graphic]
4. Eliza Haywood [graphic]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1725]
- Call Number:
- Portraits H427 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Engraving of the portrait of the novelist Eliza Haywood after the painting by Parmentier; oval bust, facing right, in rectangular frame
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756), English author and actress., and Mounted on wove paper with watermark: Whatman 1886.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Haywood, Eliza, 1693?-1756,
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, British, and Actresses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Eliza Haywood [graphic]
5. Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 7th April 1788.
- Call Number:
- 788.04.07.01 Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 39. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satirical print rebuking the many writers who profited by writing memoirs of Samuel Johnson. On the left, Mrs. Piozzi is seated at her writing desk in her study. With a look of astonishment. she looks behind her at the ghost of Samuel Johnson in a night shirt who with his right hand points to the portraits of James Boswell and Sir John Hawkins on the wall and in his left hand holds a money purse. Another portrait on the far right depicts John Courtenay with a pen in his hand looking toward a bust of Prisian. On her desk is a letter "D Johnson ... Letters Dear Lady", implying that she has been concoting Johnson's letters to her. Immediately above her desk in the middle of the wall of books, a violin, an allusion to her second husband a musician, obscures the portrait of her first husband Henry Thrale
- Alternative Title:
- Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. Johnson's letters
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Twenty-four lines of verse in two columns below title: Madam! my debt to nature paid, I thought the grave with hallow'd shade would now protect my name ..., and Contemporary mss. note on verso.
- Publisher:
- Publd. by Thos. Cornell
- Subject (Name):
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Hawkins, John, 1719-1789, Courtenay, John, 1738-1816, and Thrale, Henry, 1728-1781
- Subject (Topic):
- Ghosts, Studies (Rooms), and Authors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters [graphic]
6. Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 7th April 1788.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 39. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satirical print rebuking the many writers who profited by writing memoirs of Samuel Johnson. On the left, Mrs. Piozzi is seated at her writing desk in her study. With a look of astonishment. she looks behind her at the ghost of Samuel Johnson in a night shirt who with his right hand points to the portraits of James Boswell and Sir John Hawkins on the wall and in his left hand holds a money purse. Another portrait on the far right depicts John Courtenay with a pen in his hand looking toward a bust of Prisian. On her desk is a letter "D Johnson ... Letters Dear Lady", implying that she has been concoting Johnson's letters to her. Immediately above her desk in the middle of the wall of books, a violin, an allusion to her second husband a musician, obscures the portrait of her first husband Henry Thrale
- Alternative Title:
- Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. Johnson's letters
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Twenty-four lines of verse in two columns below title: Madam! my debt to nature paid, I thought the grave with hallow'd shade would now protect my name ..., and Mounted on page 57 with one other print.
- Publisher:
- Publd. by Thos. Cornell
- Subject (Name):
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Hawkins, John, 1719-1789, Courtenay, John, 1738-1816, and Thrale, Henry, 1728-1781
- Subject (Topic):
- Ghosts, Studies (Rooms), and Authors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters [graphic]
7. Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 7th April 1788.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 39. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satirical print rebuking the many writers who profited by writing memoirs of Samuel Johnson. On the left, Mrs. Piozzi is seated at her writing desk in her study. With a look of astonishment. she looks behind her at the ghost of Samuel Johnson in a night shirt who with his right hand points to the portraits of James Boswell and Sir John Hawkins on the wall and in his left hand holds a money purse. Another portrait on the far right depicts John Courtenay with a pen in his hand looking toward a bust of Prisian. On her desk is a letter "D Johnson ... Letters Dear Lady", implying that she has been concoting Johnson's letters to her. Immediately above her desk in the middle of the wall of books, a violin, an allusion to her second husband a musician, obscures the portrait of her first husband Henry Thrale
- Alternative Title:
- Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. Johnson's letters
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Twenty-four lines of verse in two columns below title: Madam! my debt to nature paid, I thought the grave with hallow'd shade would now protect my name ..., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; plate mark 25 x 17.7 cm, on sheet 27.2 x 19.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 39 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Publisher:
- Publd. by Thos. Cornell
- Subject (Name):
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Hawkins, John, 1719-1789, Courtenay, John, 1738-1816, and Thrale, Henry, 1728-1781
- Subject (Topic):
- Ghosts, Studies (Rooms), and Authors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters [graphic]
8. Garrick. Shakespear [graphic]
- Creator:
- Miller, J., printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [August 1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.08.00.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Portrait of David Garrick standing whole-length to front with legs crossed and leaning on bust of Shakespeare that stands on a plinth in a garden; he holds stick in his left hand, looking to right; folly beside river, beyond at right
- Description:
- Title, artist, and printmaker scratched with production and publication detail below image.
- Publisher:
- London Magazine
- Subject (Name):
- Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, and Authors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Garrick. Shakespear [graphic]
9. Golodnomu na khli︠e︡b : alʹbom avtografov pisateleĭ, khudozhnikov, artistov i obshchestvennykh di︠e︡i︠a︡teleĭ.
- Published / Created:
- 1892.
- Call Number:
- WF 109
- Image Count:
- 52
- Alternative Title:
- Golodnomu na khleb
- Description:
- With facsimile autographs.
- Publisher:
- Izd. red. gazety "Russkai︠a︡ zhiznʹ" : Tip. Isidora Golʹdberga
- Subject (Geographic):
- Soviet Union
- Subject (Topic):
- Autographs, Artists, Authors, Composers, and Painters
- Found in:
- Sterling Memorial Library > Golodnomu na khli︠e︡b : alʹbom avtografov pisateleĭ, khudozhnikov, artistov i obshchestvennykh di︠e︡i︠a︡teleĭ.
