"View of Uxbridge House in Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly; fashionably dressed figures on pavements on street, a carriage entering street beyond the house"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., and "Pl. 92"--Below imprint.
Two wash drawings, both oval views, of Château des Rochers-Sévigné. In the image on the left the road leading to chateau is on at right, with trees on the left. The image on the right depicts the chateau from the opposite side, with three paths in the foreground leading to a garden. An engraved portrait (12.7 x 7 cm) of Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, duchesse de Longueville, is mounted at center of sheet between the two drawings (see separate record).
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image., Copied from the drawing, done on the spot by Mr. Hinchliffe in 1786, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Breakfast-Room at Strawberry Hill., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 250 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Vitré (France : District)
Subject (Name):
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A view of Twickenham from across the river Thames. A single row boat is shown on the river. Mr. Horn's house is on the left on Eel Pie Island, and on the right, in the distance, is Ham House
Description:
Title inscribed in ink on verso in an unidentified hand. and Attributed to Müntz.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
An album of pencil sketches of historic buildings and grounds in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, presumably executed during a tour, beginning in North Yorkshire, then South Yorkshire, and ending in Nottinghamshire. Most drawings are identified. Only one drawing is signed: "J. Haddow". The front flyleaf gives mileage between towns and villages beginning with Rotherham and continuing through Derbyshire and what is now Greater Manchester and finally to Ulverston (Lanscashire), perhaps a clue to the start and end of the trip; below this list is a sketch of a tree (orientation, reversed). The drawings, many over the two-page openings, include; three sketches of the ruins of Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire; one sketch of parkland from Goldsborough Hall, North Yorkshire, followed by thirteen blank leaves; four sketches of Osberton Hall, Notinghamshire; three sketches of Tickhill Castle, South Yorkshire; twelve sketches of Sandbeck Park, South Yorkshire that include the ruins of Roche Abbey; and finally, a small sketch of the gate at Sandbeck Park on the back flyleaf (verso).
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger. Dated approximately., The album includes 42 leaves, approximately 13 of which are blank. Bound in the original light brown paper-covered boards, flat spine., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Northamptonshire (England), Yorkshire (England), England., England, Nottinghamshire., and Yorkshire.
A scene with a traditional Sami home, clothing, and customs. Figures are numbered; the key is provided in the text (see v. 2, p. 282-98). The house (no. 1) is a tent with a door through which you can see a woman cooking over a fire. To left of the tent is a small house in a tree used for drying fish (no. 4); a woman carries a baby in a traditional carrier (no. 5); in the back ground on the right is a 'magic' drum (no. 9); other figures demonstrate sleds drawn by reindeer, skis, milking, etc
Alternative Title:
Lapland hut
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Added title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's Travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., and "Tom. 2. No. XIV."--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
A. de La Mottraye
Subject (Geographic):
Lapland.
Subject (Name):
La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743.
Subject (Topic):
Sami (European people), Cookery, Dogs, Drums, Houses, Infants, Milking, Mothers, Reindeer, Skiing, and Sleds & sleighs
A scene with a traditional Sami home, clothing, and customs. Figures are numbered; the key is provided in the text (see v. 2, p. 282-98). The house (no. 1) is a tent with a door through which you can see a woman cooking over a fire. To left of the tent is a small house in a tree used for drying fish (no. 4); a woman carries a baby in a traditional carrier (no. 5); in the back ground on the right is a 'magic' drum (no. 9); other figures demonstrate sleds drawn by reindeer, skis, milking, etc
Alternative Title:
Lapland hut
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Added title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's Travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., "XXXVIII."--Upper left corner., "T. II."--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; plate and volume erased from this impression., and On page 20 in volume 1.
Publisher:
A. de La Mottraye
Subject (Geographic):
Sápmi. and 12680778
Subject (Name):
La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743.
Subject (Topic):
Sami (European people), Cookery, Dogs, Drums, Houses, Infants, Milking, Mothers, Reindeer, Skiing, and Sleds & sleighs
A pencil skteches of designs for Gothic ceiling ornaments; on the verso two sketches: the first, a Palladian house with five bays, attached to a church by a walk; and the second, a floor plan for a house[?].
Alternative Title:
Pencil sketch of an elevation and plan of a Palladian five-bay house attached to a church by a covered walk
Horace Walpole's sketches for the design of the ceiling in his library at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., A drawing in Horace Walpole's hand, with the date 1754 integrated in the design and sent with a letter dated 17 March 1754 to Bentley from his home in London on Arlington Street. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 35, p. 171., and Horace Walpole (1717-1797), author, politician, and patron of the arts.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Houses, Estates, and Libraries (Rooms)
Possibly a view of Donnington Grove in Berkshire, which was designed and built by John Chute in 1763 for James Pettit Andrews
Description:
Title devised by curator., Approximate date of publication supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 103 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.
