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1.
[Landscape struck by lightning] [art original]

Creator:
Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
Published / Created:
[1754]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3585 leaf 5b Box 1
Collection Title:
Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A design by Bentley of a landscape with a large house on a hill (left) high above the shore on a stormy night with waves and and trees blown by heavy winds. Lightning from the right stretches across the sky, striking the house. In the light showing between the tree on the right the number '58'.
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist and date from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso., and Formerly mounted on the lower half of leaf 5 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Geographic):
Jersey (Channel Islands)
Subject (Topic):
Coastlines, Lightning, and Storms
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Landscape struck by lightning] [art original]

2.
Corse [graphic]

Creator:
Bonnor, Thomas, printmaker
Published / Created:
January 9th, 1790.
Call Number:
Folio 633 780 En58
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A landscape with a view of Corse across the water
Description:
Title engraved below image., With a separately titled plate on same sheet: Arcade & inscription against the tower at Cotes. [London : Published by Richd. Bigland?, January 9th, 1790?], and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '19' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published by Richd. Bigland
Subject (Geographic):
Gloucestershire (England) and England.
Subject (Topic):
Churches and Coastlines
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Corse [graphic]

3.
A perspective view of Brighthelmston, and of the sea coast as far as the Isle of Wight Inscribed

Creator:
Canot, Pierre Charles, 1710-1777, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1765]
Call Number:
Drawer 765.00.00.95
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of Brighton, the town with numerous houses and other buildings, St. Nicholas's Church on the hill above the town to the right, the coast stretching away in the distance, windmills in the fields to the left with haywains drawn by oxen and reapers at their work amongst the crops to the right, elegant ladies and gentlemen strolling through the scene with a man sketching to the left, several boats and ships on the calm sea beyond, gulls amongst the clouds above. The Royal Arms below
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Titled 'A Perspective View of Brighthelmstone, and of the Sea coast as far as the Isle of Wight: by Jas. Lambert, engraved by Canot.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, & sold by Jas. Lambert, painter, at Lewes in Sussex, and Robert Sayer, map and printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Brighton (England), England., England, and Brighton.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Cityscapes, Churches, Coastlines, Meadows, Windmills, and Church buildings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A perspective view of Brighthelmston, and of the sea coast as far as the Isle of Wight Inscribed (by permission) to His Royal Highness William Henry Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Earl of Connaught of the Kingdom of Ireland, Ranger of Hampton Court Park, and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter - by His Royal Highnesses most obedt. & devoted servt. James Lambert / [graphic]

4.
Upnor Castle [graphic]

Creator:
Livesay, Richard, -1823?, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[27 November 1781]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Figures and landmarks in this print are lettered in plate with key beneath title: A. Upnor Castle. B. The River Medway. C. Mr. Thornhill. D. Mr. Hogarth. E. Mr. Forrest. F. Mr. Tothall. G. Mr. Scott., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate for: Gosling, W. Account of what seemed most remarkable in the five days peregrination of the five following persons ..., Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.)., and On page 211in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 27th 1781 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarth's Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,, Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734,, Scott, Samuel, approximately 1710-1772,, and Upnor Castle (Kent, England)
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Castles & palaces, Coastlines, and Ships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Upnor Castle [graphic]

5.
America! of wealth thou modern mine ... [graphic]

Creator:
Moore, James, active approximately 1761-1763, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1765]
Call Number:
765.00.00.02.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two native Americans wearing fronded head-dresses and armed with arrows, on a sea-shore, one kneeling on a rock with one hand propped on cones from a palm-tree, the other standing clothed in a goat's skin, gesturing out to left with an ingot in one hand; a crocodile on the sand, a European ship at sea and three figures gathered around a hammock set between palms under a canopy on rocks in the upper right; from a set of the four quarters of the world; republished state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from first line of verses engraved beneath image., Verses continue: ... what if by conquest we possess thy shore, thy savages reveng'd should less repine, since we're the slaves of thy corrupting ore., Second state, with altered imprint statement; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.570., See Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, volume 3, page 941 for mention of an earlier state of this series of four plates "Quarters of the World", "Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden Head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street"., One of a series of four allegorical prints, the others depicting Africa, Asia, and Europe., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge and with thin margins on the other three edges.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
North America,
Subject (Topic):
Indigenous peoples, Headdresses, Arrows, Coastlines, Palms, Crocodiles, Ships, and Hammocks (Furniture)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > America! of wealth thou modern mine ... [graphic]

6.
[Drawings compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family] [art original].

Creator:
Mordaunt family, collector
Published / Created:
[between 1815 and 1829]
Call Number:
724 815M
Image Count:
34
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An album of illustrations by various artists, probably compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family. The album contains views of coastlines and ports including Port Eliot, home of Mordaunt friends the Eliots of Port Eliot, in the Parish of St. Germans, Cornwall, drawings of ruins, rural scenes with livestock, and a pencil portrait of a girl aged about 10.
Description:
Charles Mordaunt (1771-1823), 8th Baronet, was a member of Parliament representing the constituency of Warwickshire. A Catholic and Whig, he married Marianne, daughter of William Holbech of Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire in 1807; the couple lived at Walton where they raised one son and two daughters: John Mordaunt (1808-1845), Mary Mordaunt Acland (ca. 1811-ca. 1851), and Emma Acland (1813-)., Title devised by cataloger., Drawings are dated from 1815 to 1829 and laid on 29 leaves of various colored paper. Two undated watercolors are signed by Lady Marianne Mordaunt; two other illustrations are initialled S.C.E., possibly Susan Caroline Eliot who was born in 1801. The pencil portrait is signed "M.E. by Miss Masters, 1824." A pencil sketch of a ruin on a cliff is signed F.J. as are two other watercolors with another three unsigned views. Other drawings are signed C.E.W (1824 and 1828) or C.W. Another drawing is signed "M.H. 1829"., Signed and dated drawings include: the William Tell in the market place of Altdorf, Canton of Uri, Switzerland, and Bound in original dark blue grained calf, initialled ‘T.[or C.]S.M.’ on front board, dated 1833 at foot of spine. Armorial bookplate initialled C.J., 1919, on front pastedown; later pencil book label of J.D. Derry, 1947, on first leaf.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Greece, and Switzerland
Subject (Topic):
Ruins and Coastlines
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family] [art original].

7.
Iohn Bull making observations on the comet [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
10th Novr., 1807.
Call Number:
807.11.10.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The comet has the profile head of Napoleon wearng a plumed bicorne; it rushes up from the left. towards the sun, the profile head of George III, much irradiated. John Bull, a carbuncled 'cit', stoops low to look through a telescope on a tripod pointing towards the comet. Napoleon looks up at the King, who gazes fixedly above his head. He has ascended from a small piece of land rising from the narrow Channel separating it from John's wider fragment. Up this a frog clambers. On the open sea ships are strung out along the horizon. John says: "Aye - Aye - Master Comet - you may attempt your Periheliums - or your Devil heliums for what I care but take the word of an Old Man you'll never reach the Sun depend upon it"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of variant state
Alternative Title:
John Bull making observations on the comet
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '274' in upper right corner., and Variant state. Cf. no. 10769, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of the plate with different series number.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Coastlines, Comets, Ships, Sun, and Telescopes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Iohn Bull making observations on the comet [graphic]

8.
[Ships near rocky coast] [art original]

Creator:
Winchelsea, Charles Finch, Earl of, 1672-1712, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1712?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 50. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed with the artist's name in lower left corner. The identity of "Lord Maidstone" is pondered in Horace Walpole's ink annotation at bottom of mount: This was probably Charles Lord Maidstone, son of William lost in the Dutch war, & grandson of Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsea, whom he suceeded., Date of production based on death date of the presumed artist., Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing., and Mounted on page 50 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Subject (Topic):
Ships, Rowboats, Coastlines, and Shipwrecks
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Ships near rocky coast] [art original]

9.
Nobody knows what is become of all the guineas [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1814]
Call Number:
814.00.00.35
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication extrapolated from that of book; see British Museum catalogue., One of 14 plates from: Something concerning nobody / edited by Somebody. London : R. Scholey, 1814., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered "12".
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Coins, Bags, Furnaces, Coastlines, and Warships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Nobody knows what is become of all the guineas [graphic].

10.
Sea side sketches [graphic].

Published / Created:
1829.
Call Number:
829.00.00.14+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Seaside sketches
Description:
Title etched below images., Four designs on one plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Coastlines, Carriages & coaches, and Donkeys
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sea side sketches [graphic].

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