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Collection Title:: Bookplate Collection
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: Prints & Photographs
Description:: A coat of arms, surrounded by decorative curlicues and leaves.
Subject (Name):: Ainsworth, William Francis
Subject (Topic):: Armorial, Armorial bookplates, Axes, Shield, and Shields
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > William Francis Ainsworth

Creator:: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1853]
Call Number:: 24 17 791P Copy 5
Collection Title:: Before title page. Castle of Otranto.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing of an arched niche, surrounded by ornate Gothic tracery, in which several weapons and pieces of armor are arranged. A plumed helmet sits atop the center stack of the arrangement, with an armor chest plate and a round shield below it. Spears and a spiked mace stick out from the left side of the center stack; a variety of axes stick out from the right side
Description:: Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted before title page in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Subject (Name):: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):: Armor, Arms & armament, Helmets, Spears, Shields, and Axes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Armor in a niche] [art original].

Creator:: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1824]
Call Number:: Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Wash drawing of the Indian weapons, in the Armoury at Strawberry Hill
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 78 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Art collections, Arms & armament, Arrows, Axes, and Spears
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Quiver with arrows, Indian lance and hatchet] [art original].

Published / Created:: [ca. 1820?]
Call Number:: Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.4
Collection Title:: Volume 4, after page 276. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Titled devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production inferred from publication place and date of the book in which the drawing is found., The nine depicted items, presumably tools used on a warship, are labeled in watercolor with their names and length measurements: Spunge &c. 9 feet long ; 2 f. 6 tomyhawk for boarding ; lower deck spunge & rammer ; Crow[?] iron 4 f. ; 9 feet ; 14 inch hatchet for cutting away [the] rigging ; Hand spike 5 feet ; 9 feet copper ladle ; Boarding spike 10 feet., With another watercolor drawing on verso: [Spanish arms, swords and matchlock]., and Mounted after page 276 (leaf numbered '56' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Subject (Topic):: Equipment, Arms & armament, Crowbars, Axes, and Spears
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Spikes, ladle, hatchet, and other naval implements] [art original].

Creator:: Haistwell, Edward, 1736-1783, printmaker
Published / Created:: [11 February 1761]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3588 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Volume 2, page 19. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A man standing in profile to left, whole-length, with a hat, sack over shoulder, axe in hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title devised by curator., Printmaker identified as Edward Haistwell in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1931,0413.205., Identification of printmaker is confirmed by a letter, pasted above print in album, from Richard Bull to Horace Walpole. In sending the print to Walpole, Bull mentions that it was "engrav'd by Mr. Haistwell, formerly a fellow commoner of C.C.C. College Cambridge [sic]"., Print signed with "CCCC", which probably stands for "Corpus Christi College, Cambridge", where Edward Haistwell was a fellow commoner., and Mounted on page 19 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Axes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Standing figure] [graphic]

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before 1 June 1792]
Call Number:: Drawer Portraits W892 no. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: In a winter landscape, a man smoking a pipe carries an axe under one arm as he walks down a path in a field, a dog walking beside him; in his belt is a large knife, and in the distance on the left is a thatched cottage beyond a fence and stone wall
Description:: Title from published state. See: British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1941,1011.3. and Artist, printmaker, and publication information from statement of responsibility and imprint on published state: Barker pinxt. ; F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt. London, Published June 1, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Publisher:: Thos. Macklin
Subject (Topic):: Axes, Dogs, Knives, Loggers, and Pipes (Smoking)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [The woodman] [graphic].