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19. The fair nun unmask'd [graphic]
- Creator:
- Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the act directs, A.D. 1769.
- Call Number:
- 769.00.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In an oval frame, a half-length portrait of woman with a black veil over her head looks left. In her right hand she holds a mask; around her neck is cross. She wears pearl earrings, pearls in her hair, and a strand hangs from the jeweled rose at her breast
- Alternative Title:
- Fair nun unmasked
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified in Chaloner Smith who based his description on the 1780 copy published by Sayer., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered '8' in lower left corner., Two lines of verse below title: On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore ... Pope., Reversed copy of this print was published in 1780., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: masquerade dress -- Allusion to 'The Fair Nun' -- Literature: quotation from The rape of the lock, canto ii.7, by Alexander Pope, 1688-1744., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Accessories (Clothing & dress), Dancers, Jewelry, Masks, and Masquerades
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fair nun unmask'd [graphic]
20. A figure that appear'd in a Mazarine gown at the King of Denmarks masquerade ball [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [not before 10 October 1768]
- Call Number:
- 768.10.10.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Mr. Harley, with a very large belly and a shirt with lace trim, standing full-length in profile to right wearing on his head a cuckold's horns from which hangs a sign "A room to lett unfurnish'd". From his mouth a bubble reading, "I am one of the heads of the city." In his left hand a book open to pages that read, "The city poll dedicated to the Cheese mongers, trunk makers, etc. From his right pocket a letter, "At the court of C.C., it was carried NEM-CON that he was realy & not politically ill."
- Alternative Title:
- Figure that appeared in a Mazarine gown
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: October 10, 1768, the date of the masquerade., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 148., and Mounted to 30 x 36 cm.
- Publisher:
- Oxford Magazine
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Harley, Thomas, 1730-1804
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, City council members, Horns (Anatomy), Masquerades, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A figure that appear'd in a Mazarine gown at the King of Denmarks masquerade ball [graphic]
21. A masquerade [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [4 April 1795]
- Call Number:
- 795.04.04.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published 4th April 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Punch and Judy, Falstaff, John, Turks, Devil, and Masquerades
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A masquerade [graphic].
22. A view of the canal, Chinese building, rotunde [sic], in Ranelagh Gardens, with masquarade [sic] Vüe du canal, du batiment chinois, de la rotunda, &c. des Jardins de Ranelagh, un jour de masquarade / [graphic] =
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1765]
- Call Number:
- 765.00.00.94+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of Ranelagh Gardens during a masquarade, with the revellers wearing masks. After a design by Canaletto. For an engraving of the same scene in reverse, published by Robert Sayer in 1752, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2450
- Alternative Title:
- View of the canal, Chinese building, rotunda, &c. in Ranelagh Gardens, with masquerade, Vüe du canal, du batiment chinois, de la rotunda, &c. des Jardins de Ranelagh, un jour de masquarade, and Masquerade angloise
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Additional title "Masquerade angloise" at top of plate, etched as a mirror image., Signed in lower right corner with an illegible printmaker's signature., Date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., A 'vuë d'optique', designed to be viewed through an optical viewer that gives a sense of depth perspective; the scene is reversed, as is the additional title at top., Manuscript number "9" written in ink at bottom of sheet, centered., Mounted on board., and Windows of the rotunda in image cut out by hand and inset with hand-painted multi-color inserts, which appear illuminated when a light is held from behind.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Ranelagh Gardens (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Canals, Gardens, Rotundas, and Masquerades
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view of the canal, Chinese building, rotunde [sic], in Ranelagh Gardens, with masquarade [sic] Vüe du canal, du batiment chinois, de la rotunda, &c. des Jardins de Ranelagh, un jour de masquarade / [graphic] =
23. Baal, of, De Waereld in Maskerade The world in masquerade. [graphic] =
- Published / Created:
- [1720]
- Call Number:
- 720.00.00.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Waereld in Maskerade and World in masquerade
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Two columns of verse in English on left below image: Here, may the wand[e]ring eye with pleasure see Both knaves and foolls [sic] in borrow[e]d shapes agree ..., Two columns of verse in Dutch on right below image: Hier kan 't Nieuwsgierig oog met Lust en ruymte weyen ..., Plate 14 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., Temporary local subject terms: Architecture: assembly room., and Watermark in the right part of sheet.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Chandeliers and Masquerades
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Baal, of, De Waereld in Maskerade The world in masquerade. [graphic] =
24. Hei! Degeror O! I am undone [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [between 1724 and 1727]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Satire on John Heidegger and the taste for the masquerades which he promoted. A London street scene in the foreground of which Heidegger sprawls on the ground, his watch and coins falling from his pocket, as he begs mercy of Hercules. Hercules, clad in a lion skin, raises his club threateningly; with his right hand he holds a chain encircling a large group of masqueraders, some of whom have their hands tied behind their backs, their props or accessories are scattered on the ground; other masqueraders climb out of the windows of the building behind. On the left, Piety, Wisdom and Britannia emerge from a church followed by clergymen; beggars ask for alms, one holds a dog on a lead who rushes towards Heidegger. Mercury flies overhead holding a scroll lettered, "The Masquerade destroyt".
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Artist unidentified., Date 1727 by Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, (3rd ed.), p. 48. Dated "ca. 1724" in the British Museum catalogue., According to John Nicholls in his Biographical anecdotes of William Hogarth (1785, p.134), this print inspired Hogarth's "Masquerades and Operas" (British Museum satires no. 1742), but the reverse may be the case., "Price 1 shilling"--Lower left., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 26 in volume 1., and Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: An anonymous print to which Hogarth was indebted. See the following print.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748. and Hercules (Roman mythological character),
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), City & town life, Clergy, Costumes, Dogs, and Masquerades
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hei! Degeror O! I am undone [graphic].
25. Iphigenia [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1749]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 53 C46 776
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 15. Trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An engraving, showing a scene from the Venetian Ambassadors Masquerade in which Miss Chudleigh appears wearing stockings, shoes, and a tunic, the last covering only a very small portion of her person, and taking off her mask on being seized round the waist by a gentleman. "Punch", "Judy", and another masquerader, George II?, are behind
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Attributed to Charles Moseley in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.3894., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., "Price 6 d."--Lower right corner of plate., and Bound in opposite page 15 in an extra-illustrated copy of: The trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right Honourable the House of Peers ... London : Printed for Charles Bathurst, in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXVI [1776].
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 and Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
- Subject (Topic):
- Masquerades
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Iphigenia [graphic].
26. Ridotto al' fresco, or, The humours of Spring Gardens [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1740?]
- Call Number:
- 740.00.00.07.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Humours of Spring Gardens
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price. 6d.", Dickinson Imprint from earlier state in lower left corner, blacked out on plate but partially legible., Three columns of verse below image: Here, may the wand'ring eye with pleasure see both knaves and fools in borrow'd shapes agree ..., Copy, with English verse only, of No. 1635 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Temporary local subject terms: Court manners: bowing -- Spring Gardens., and Mounted to 29 x 45 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Geo. Foster at the White Horse opposite the north gate in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Chandeliers, Masks, and Masquerades
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ridotto al' fresco, or, The humours of Spring Gardens [graphic].
27. Rural masquerade dedicated to the regatta'ites [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [9 July 1776]
- Call Number:
- 776.07.09.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A grotesque bearded head attached to the body of a woman faces right under an enormous coiffure. Within the hair a scene in the top panel depicts a masquerade in a garden setting. A lower scene shows boats and barges, a reference to the first English regatta held 23 June 1775
- Description:
- Title from item., Place of publication from publisher's entry in I. Maxted's The London book trades., and Probably a companion print to: Bunters Hill. See British Museum catalogue no. 5378.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. accorg. to act of Parlt. July 9, 1776 by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Sque
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Regattas, and Masquerades
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Rural masquerade dedicated to the regatta'ites [graphic].
