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41.
[Servants playing billiards] [art original].

Creator:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1803]
Call Number:
Drawings B87 no. 30 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 5
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke app...
Description:
Title from local card catalogue.
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Servants, and Pictures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Servants playing billiards] [art original].

42.
Billiards [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 27th Jany. 1781.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 29. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"One corner of a billiard-table is visible, the rest being cut off by the right, margin of the print. A player, in profile to the right, holds up with exaggerated care a cue in front of a ball lying near the corner. He wears a long pigtail queue, on t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Servants, and Pictures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Billiards [graphic]

43.
Billiards [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 23, 1799.
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.05.23.01+ Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"One corner of a billiard-table is visible, the rest being cut off by the right, margin of the print. A player, in profile to the right, holds up with exaggerated care a cue in front of a ball lying near the corner. He wears a long pigtail queue, on t...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Servants, and Pictures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Billiards [graphic]

44.
Billiards [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 23, 1799.
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.05.23.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"One corner of a billiard-table is visible, the rest being cut off by the right, margin of the print. A player, in profile to the right, holds up with exaggerated care a cue in front of a ball lying near the corner. He wears a long pigtail queue, on t...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Servants, and Pictures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Billiards [graphic]

45.
The shaver and the shavee [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, Charles, approximately 1760-1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
date.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 83. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: the interior of a barber who has covered his client with soap; prints and wigs are hanging on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, April 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Barbershops, Barbers, Shaving, Wigs, and Pictures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The shaver and the shavee [graphic]

46.
A nautical impromptu [graphic].

Published / Created:
[22 August 1827]
Call Number:
827.08.22.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satire with two naval officers (one of whom is the Duke of Clarence caricatured, with heavy jowl, protruding lips, and small slanting eye) abusing each other at table, observed by a civilian who winks and holds a finger to the side of his nose. The na...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. Augt. 22d, 1827, by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Subject (Topic):
Crying, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Insults, Military officers, and Pictures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A nautical impromptu [graphic].

47.
Beggars opera Act 2, Scene I. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[approximately February 1809]
Call Number:
53 C599 S809
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Duke of York sits on a settee with a courtesan on each knee, Mrs. Clarke (left) and (presumably) Mrs. Carey (right). One foot rests on large volumes of 'Army Accompts'; by the other is a smaller book: 'Ovid Art of Love'. A chair is overturned; th...
Alternative Title:
Beggars opera : Act 2, Scene 1
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Courtesans, Adultery, Sofas, Books, Chairs, Daggers & swords, Tables, Bottles, Fruit, Chandeliers, Pictures, Doors & doorways, Axes, Gallows, Sculpture, and Justice
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Beggars opera Act 2, Scene I. [graphic]

48.
Billiards [graphic]

Published / Created:
[15 November 1780]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 29. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke ap...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 15th, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Dogs, Games, Men, Servants, and Pictures
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Billiards [graphic]

49.
Catalogue of pictures in the Cabinet side fronting the door. [art original]

Published / Created:
[not after 1797]
Call Number:
49 2523
Collection Title:
Page 121.7. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Side fronting the door
Description:
Title from note in ink at top of image.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Pictures, and Windows
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Catalogue of pictures in the Cabinet side fronting the door. [art original]

50.
Catalogue of pictures in the Gallery the end. End where the great door is. [art original]

Published / Created:
[not after 1797]
Call Number:
49 2523
Collection Title:
Page 121.18. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
End where the great door is
Description:
Titles from notes in ink at top of images.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Pictures, and Doors & doorways
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Catalogue of pictures in the Gallery the end. End where the great door is. [art original]

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