Genealogical table of the Walpole family starting with Edward I and Reginald de Walpole, and ending with descendants born by January 1776
Description:
Title from item., Mounted on page 199 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., and With Horace Walpole's manuscript notes and with the quarterings and coat of arms elaborately hand-colored.
Publisher:
Horace Walpole
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole family. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
BEIN 2016 Folio 86: Imperfect: some plates wanting. Numerous plates with second copies. Plates and text loose in binding with spine title "Bowyer's History of England plates.", Lettered on spine Illustrative of Hume's History of England., Engraved dedications signed: Robert Bowyer; Tomkins scr., Plates dated 1793-1806., Also known as his Historic Gallery., and Bound by Hammond in half red morocco with marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, six raised bands, gilt edges.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietor, R. Bowyer, 80, Pall Mall; by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Coins, English, illu, Nobility, Poets, English, and Kings and rulers
Lord Leinster, personified as a rough Irish farmer, leads Queen Caroline by a rope around her neck. Leinster expounds: 'Dam me! no one but the D... shall stop her.' Another figure in the background, probably Bartolomeo Pergami, replies: 'Stop Nosey, let me feel that Heifer.'
Alternative Title:
Show heifer going to Leinster Stable Yard
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from dealer's description., Text below title: Dedicated to the Farming Society of Ireland., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. by McCleary, 21 Nassau Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Leinster, Augustus Frederick Fitzgerald, Duke of, 1791-1874, and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
BEIN 2015 1520: Undeciphered autograph. From the library of Walter L. Pforzheimer., "Epitre" signed: Brunet. By Pierre Nicolas Brunet. Cf. Barbier., and Original calf. Bookplate 2 early state. Press-mark G.8.12. With two architectural sketches in pencil, probably by Horace Walpole, drawn inside back cover.
Publisher:
Chez Desaint & Saillant ..., J. Th. Hérissant ...
Title from item., Creator and date supplied by Paris Musées website. https://apicollections.parismusees.paris.fr/iiif/200004190/manifest., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., In image top: La Caricature (Journal); Pl. 102., Published in La Caricature., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Attached clipping describes print.
Publisher:
Chez Aubert editeur Galerie Véro Dodat and Lith de Delaporte rue de l'Abbaye no 4.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Kings and rulers, Succession, Nobility, History, Skeletons, Death, Capes (Clothing)., Feathers, and Staffs (Sticks).
Manuscript on parchment of Carta Ejecutoria, or letter of nobility, issued in the names of Lope Goncalez de Valdes and Pedro Goncalez de Valdes, by the authority of Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, dated 12 September 1550 in Granada. Seal missing
Description:
In Spanish., Script: Written in round gothic by one scribe who added decorative designs in upper and lower margins. Addition on ff. 52v-53v by Don Antonio Larrillo is in a similar hand., The ornamentation of the codex is poorly executed. Folio 1v: miniatures representing the crowning of the Virgin (upper left) and the arms of the Goncalez de Valdes family; f. 2r: miniature of Justice, with scales (lower half of page). Both folios have elaborate decorative borders in gold and colors that are badly rubbed. Folios 4v and 52r have historiated initials with portraits of a seated king (Rey Don Iohan?). Twenty-five small painted initials, 7- to 5-line; gold letters with black pen designs on white-decorated blue and dark red backgrounds., and Binding: Bookblock laid in a contemporary vellum wrapper with an envelope flap.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Spain., and Granada (Spain)
Subject (Name):
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Nobility
Manuscript on paper (various watermarks) and parchment, composed of two distinct sections bound together in the 18th (?) century, but with additional folios inserted. Part I (parchment): Carta ejecutoria, or letter of nobility, granted to Don Alfonso Rodriguez (Tinagero Rodriguez de la Escalera) by the authority of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel of Castile. Issued in Salamanca, 1487. Seal missing. Part II (paper): Numerous documents (all dated 1686) concerning a law suit involving Don Diego Tinagero Rodriguez de la Escalera of Seville, a descendent of Alfonso Rodriguez
Description:
In Spanish., Script: Part I (ff. 3-13): Round gothic script by a single scribe. Part II (ff. 19-74): Written in various cursive hands., Folios 1v and 2r have crudely illuminated full-page miniatures, 17th century. Folio 1v: members of the Rodriguez family offering prayers to the Madonna and Child. Folio 2r: arms of the Tinagero Rodriguez de la Escalera family. Crude decorative border on f. 3v and REY (in gold, outlined in black) may be later additions., Many of the documents included appear to have once been folded. Some loss of text due to trimming., and Binding: Eighteenth century (?). Thin wooden boards covered with dark brown leather, flesh side out. Vermilion and green ribbon fastenings.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Spain., Spain, Salamanca (Spain), and Seville (Spain)
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval, Nobility, and Politics and government
Autograph manuscript of a collection of pedigrees and genealogical charts, accompanied by many small illustrations of "arms in trick." Some of the pedigrees are taken from the Lincolnshire and Gloucestershire visitations of the early 1680s. An alphabetical index of the coats of arms represented preceeds the pedigrees
Description:
In English., Attributed to Robert Dale by Sir Thomas Phillipps in a pencil note on recto of front flyleaf. Several additional pages at the end of the Dale collection are attributed by Phillipps to Samuel Stebbing., Spine title: Stemmata. List of Crests., Bound with: An Alphabetical List of Crest's copied from a list in the handwriting of Mr. Ra: Thoresby, late of Leeds, Antiquarian, which Manuscript was bought at the sale of his Library in London on 7th May 1763. Manuscript on paper in copperplate script, corrections in a different hand in red ink, 36 p., undated. Phillipps MS 13396., and Binding: nineteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Dale, Robert, -1722. and Thoresby, Ralph, 1658-1725.
