A collection of drawings of Celtic designs, heads (a satyr, bacchanalian, Chinese, and two classical), ornaments, two with muscial motifs (wind instruments), on a variety of papers, some oiled, probably from the 16th-18th centuries, mounted on a leaf disbound from a 19th century album
Description:
Title devised by curator. and One of four sheets from a 19th century album. To view other sheets, see Lewis Walpole Library: Drawings Un58 nos. 74 and 75 and SH Contents Sa5 no. 1.
Subject (Topic):
Architectural decorations & ornaments and Heads (Anatomy)
Pen and ink drawing of five heads in profile. From left to right in two rows: A woman with soft features wearing a scarf; an eccentric middle-aged man with snub nose and mouth agape; an elderly man wearing a cap and holding a long-stemmed tobacco pipe between clenched lips; an elderly man with bushy brow and elongated tubular nose; and an elderly man with sunken chin and disheveled hair
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
A drawing of the heads of three men and one woman. In the upper left is the head of a bearded man, facing left in profile, with identification in Greek letters written below and dated above on the left edge "May 29th". In the upper right is the head of a woman, looking downward and turned slightly right and dated "30th". The bottom two heads are men in profile looking left, the one on the right is bearded and the one on the left clean-shaven; the dates "June 1st" and "1st" are written to the left and right
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Statement of responsibility written in ink at bottom of sheet., With pencil annotation "1732" in a later hand at top of sheet., and Bound in after page 128 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A catalogue of engravers ... Strawberry Hill, 1765.
Pencil drawing with pastel highlights; a bust of a young woman wearing a bonnet, with a scarf around her neck, looking down
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned. Attributed to George Morland by the curator., Mounted on brown paper., and Matted removed, but stored with the item.
A drawing of six heads mostly in profile, three men, two ladies, and one child, all wearing hats. One lady in the upper right is a view from the back with only a hit of her check shown while the man in the foreground is shown full-face. A drawing in the lower left has been heavily scored through. From the left margin mid-sheet is a drawing of a sleeved-wrist and hand hold a stick(?).
Alternative Title:
Miscellaneous heads
Description:
Title from dealer's description; alternative title from Draper Hill., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Date from Draper Hill., and A drawing from a sketchbook given by Gillray to the Rev. John Sneyd in the late 1790s.
