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28. Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston

Creator:: Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968, artist
Published / Created:: [20th century]
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 138 (Art)
Container / Volume:: (Art)
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: three-dimensional form
Abstract:: Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). The engraving was made after a portrait attributed to African American slave and artist Scipio Moorhead. As in the engraving, the words "Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston" appear around the perimeter of the plaque. It is not signed or dated; the attribution to Meta Warrick Fuller was made by Grace Nail Johnson, sister-in-law of the donor
Description:: Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century., Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), African American poet in Boston, Massachusetts., Lettering in English., and Title from lettering on plaque.
Subject (Geographic):: United States.
Subject (Name):: Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968. and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Subject (Topic):: African American sculptors, African American women poets, Poets, American, and Sculptors
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston

29. Pierce, Ruth

Published / Created:: undated
Call Number:: YCAL MSS 434
Collection Title:: Gaston Lachaise collection
Container / Volume:: Box 7
Image Count:: 5
Resource Type:: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):: Sculptors
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pierce, Ruth

30. The Damerian Apollo [graphic].

Published / Created:: July 1, 1789.
Call Number:: 789.07.01.02+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Mrs. Damer, seated in profile to the left, chisels the posterior of a large and realistic Apollo standing in profile to the left holding a spear, the left arm extended. A little girl (left) in 'profil perdu', gazes at the Apollo in astonishment. On a pedestal (left) are two nude figures, one full-face, the other in quasi-back view, drawn with extreme realism. Beside them (left) is an armless torso on a terminal pillar. These three statues are 'Studies from Nature'. On the right is a bust of a child's head in profile to the left, on a pedestal inscribed 'A Model to make a Boy from'. Beside it lie a book, 'Sketches of Different Parts'. Behind Mrs. Damer (left) is a grinning whole length figure of 'Pan'. There are also two figures on tall pedestals: a Hercules and a headless figure, and a bust. All the figures in the studio are completely nude. Mrs. Damer wears gloves; her mallet is raised to strike her chisel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 29 x 39 cm., and Watermark: countermark, letter V.
Publisher:: Pub. by Wm Holland, Garrick's Richard, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):: Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828 and Pan (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):: Artists' studios, Sculptors, British, Sculpture, and Spears
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Damerian Apollo [graphic].

31. The Honble. Anne Seymour Damer from a drawing by R. Cosway R.A. in the collection at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]

Creator:: Greatbach, William, 1802-1894, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1840.
Call Number:: SH Contents G786 no. 1 Box 105
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Full-length portrait of Mrs. Damer leaning against a pedestal with a bust on top
Alternative Title:: Honourable Anne Seymour Damer
Description:: Title etched below image. and Plate from: Walpole, H. The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. London : R. Bentley, 1840.
Publisher:: Published by Richard Bentley
Subject (Name):: Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828,
Subject (Topic):: Sculptors and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Honble. Anne Seymour Damer from a drawing by R. Cosway R.A. in the collection at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]

32. The sculptor [graphic]

Creator:: Romney, John, 1786-1863, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1828?]
Call Number:: 828.00.00.52
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A monkey dressed as an artist, wearing with a soft cap, jacket, and apron, works on a bust with chisel and mallet in hand. Other tools of his trade as a sculptor are in a basket behind him and at his feet
Description:: Title from caption below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Dean & Co., Threadneedle Street
Subject (Topic):: Animals in human situations, Chisels & mallets, Monkeys, and Sculptors
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The sculptor [graphic]

33. The striking likeness [art original]

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:: Drawings G761 no. 1 Box D123
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An artist (left) with a caricatured face looks on with horror as a bust falls on the head of the Lord, the sitter, who jumps and shreaks with pain, his foot breaking the window (right). In the background the Lord's round, well-dressed wife looks on in horror and Sketch on verso in pencil shows a boxer with gloves in a fighting stance. The figures in ink on recto, the artist and his lordship, bleed-through the image on verso
Description:: Title from caption written above image on recto; image on verso untitled., Verses below image begin: " A poor sculptor with his work elated, on a fickle lord one evening waited ; with his Lordship's bust ... Now her Ladyship with great acknowledg'd the sculptor's work to be a striking likeness.", Place and date of creation based on Grant's known place of residence and years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Artists, Boxers (Sports), Boxing, Couples, Distress, Pain, Sculptors, and Sculptures
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The striking likeness [art original]

34. The striking likeness [art original]

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:: Drawings G761 no. 1 Box D123
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An artist (left) with a caricatured face looks on with horror as a bust falls on the head of the Lord, the sitter, who jumps and shreaks with pain, his foot breaking the window (right). In the background the Lord's round, well-dressed wife looks on in horror and Sketch on verso in pencil shows a boxer with gloves in a fighting stance. The figures in ink on recto, the artist and his lordship, bleed-through the image on verso
Description:: Title from caption written above image on recto; image on verso untitled., Verses below image begin: " A poor sculptor with his work elated, on a fickle lord one evening waited ; with his Lordship's bust ... Now her Ladyship with great acknowledg'd the sculptor's work to be a striking likeness.", Place and date of creation based on Grant's known place of residence and years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Artists, Boxers (Sports), Boxing, Couples, Distress, Pain, Sculptors, and Sculptures
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The striking likeness [art original]

35. [Monument of Nicholas Stone Senior] [art original].

Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684-1756
Published / Created:: drawn June anno 1721.
Call Number:: Folio 49 3664.18
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing of the monument Nicholas Stone Senior (1586-1647).
Description:: Title devised be cataloger., Inscription in pencil, within design of the monument encirling effigy: Nicholas Stone, sculp. & architect, &c., Inscription in pencil, within design of the monument below effigy: 24 Aug 1642 departed this life., Inscription in pencil, within design at the base of the monument: H.S. posuit., Inscription in pencil, lower half of sheet: This monument was fixed in the north wall of the Parish Church of St. Martins in the Fields., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Stone in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 23., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Subject (Name):: Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647, and Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647
Subject (Topic):: Artists, British, Sculptors, and Architects
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Monument of Nicholas Stone Senior] [art original].