SH Contents W218 no. 2 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 52
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Horace Walpole's watercolor after Antoine Watteau's Fête Champêtre depicts two amorous couples being serenaded by a musician. Another young man lounges on a blanket, his back to the viewer, as he gazes at the one dancing couple. Another figure of a man peeps out from behind a tree. They sit in a grove of trees, a small pool at the edge, as sheep graze in the distance; the towers from a town can be seen on the horizon
Alternative Title:
Fête champêtre
Description:
Title devised by curator., Label verso: A Fete Champetre after Watteau by Horace Walpole From Earl Waldegrave's Collection Signed and dated 1738. Also manuscript notes in unknown hand regarding provenance of watercolor., Dated and signed "H. Walpole 1737" in lower left of image., and Date assigned by curator after the watercolor by Watteau of which this work is based.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721
Title assigned by cataloger from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on an advertisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1858. Publication date of the original: ca. 1730., Original etched by W.H. Toms., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: You that for music have an ear, attend the tunefull [sic] consort [sic] here, see how they warble for their songs, while one strikes up with shovel and tongues ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Foreign musicians -- Jew's harp -- Furniture: tripod table -- Books: music book -- Glass: wine bottles -- Containers: jug -- Lighting: lamp -- Music sheets -- Dancing -- Architectural details: arch -- Brooms -- Fire tongs -- Bulls -- Asses.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dancers, Monkeys, Musicians, Musical instruments, Owls, and Pipes (Smoking)
A drinking and smoking scene with men and women around a table, musicians playing instruments and maps and painted portraits hung on the wall behind. Design based on William Hogarth's third plate in the series Rake's Progress
Description:
Title etched below image. and On page 69 in volume 1. Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above: A Tobacco Paper.
In several languages, chiefly containing musical material. Contents include: recipes and remedies, poems, an alphabetical list of the people known to Kusser, lists of various kinds of music, lists of tunings of various instruments, instructions for the preparation of a copper plate for engraving, 2 puzzle-counterpoints devised by Kusser, songs, a short treatise on the enharmonic scale, a tabulation of drum rhythms, a treatise on flute-playing, a long treatise on counterpoint, systems for bringing a spinet into equal temperament, notes on the cost of putting on a concert in Dublin, the registration of the organ at Trinity College, Dublin, and a list of 33 directions ""What a virtuoso who comes to London should observe.""
Description:
Holograph. Composed in England and the continent. last page, p. 448, adhered to back pastedown. Text on back pastedown illegible.
A group of cats look at book opened to a musical score, on the right and images of mice on the left. Some of the cats are singing while one plays a trumpet; one of the cats wears spectacles. In the foreground are a violin and loose sheets of music. The book is propped against a birdhouse from which emerges a mouse; a cloth has been draped over the birdhouse
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., After a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1855,0609.487., Two similar prints, with slight variations in the image, were published by Ackermann in July 1817 with the title "Concert of cats". See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 817.07.00.01., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Cats, Mice, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singers
Plate [189] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions of Purcell, Croft, Blow, Arne and Boyce on a decorative plaque surmounted by a lyre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [189] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695,, Croft, William, 1678-1727,, Blow, John, -1708,, Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778,, and Boyce, William, 1711-1779,
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 8th, 1756.
Call Number:
Kinnaird 55K(b) Box 215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Outside an English country inn, over whose door a sign reads "Duke of Cumberland Roast and boil'd every day", a group of soldiers and sailors laugh at a large caricature of Louis XV on the tavern wall. They sit with two attractive young women around a table on which sits a large pie, a tankard, and a broadsheet with the verses of "Rule Britannia." In the lower left a soldier leans against a drum as he plays his flute; the music sheet in front of him is "God save Great George our King". To the right, a short well-fed man smiles as he stands on tip-toe to reach the height required by the recruiting sergeant. In the distance, soldiers are drilling in an orderly fashion; beyond them, on a hill is a large country house
Alternative Title:
Invasion, Pl. 2. England
Description:
Title etched above image. The two Ns in England etched backwards., Added title from Paulson: The invasion, Pl. 2. England., State and publisher from Paulson., Companion print: France. Plate 1st., Four columns of verse below image: See John the soldier, Jack the tar with sword & pistol arm'd for war. Should mounsir dare come here?! The hungry slaves have smelt our food, they long to taste our flesh and blood, Old England's beef and beer! Britons to arms! and let 'em come! Be you but Britons still. Strike home, and lion-like attack 'em; no power can stand the deadly stroke that's given from hands & hearts of oak with liberty to back em., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Eating & drinking, Musicians, Signs (Notices), Soldiers, Taverns (Inns), War, and Women
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
1751.
Call Number:
Print00688
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., In lower margin center: According to Act of Parliament 1751., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
