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1. [Woman with walking stick carrying basket] [art original]
- Creator:
- Walpole, Edward, Sir, 1706-1784, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1771]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 180. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Artist's name and date written in ink on verso, in a contemporary hand., Two small decorative designs in ink, on separate sheets, are mounted above and below drawing., and Mounted on page 180 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
- Subject (Topic):
- Older people, Staffs (Sticks), and Baskets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Woman with walking stick carrying basket] [art original]
2. [Sterne and Death] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Patch, Thomas, 1725-1782, artist, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1768]
- Call Number:
- 768.00.00.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Laurence Sterne stands on the left facing Death who has just come in the door (right) carrying an hourglass and carrying a walking stick. On the wall behind him is a map of the fortifications of Namur and on the table by his side, a statue of Diana of the Ephesians under a glass dome (bell glass) as well as a feather pen in an ink stand. Below the table is a jackboot. Between the two columns of verse below the image in a cartouche is a butterfly fluttering over a torch, a reference to the soul
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Date from manuscript note in Horace Walpole's hand., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., Five lines from Tristam Shandy below image in English and Italian, etched below image: and when Death himself knocked at my door, ye had him come again, and in so gay a tone, of careless indifference, did ye doit, that he, doubted of his commission. There must certainly be some mistake in thy matter, quoth he ..., In lower left corner: Price half-crown., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Aristotle's works -- Ovid -- A sentimental journey by Laurence Sterne -- Emblems: mundane egg -- Reference to plagiary -- Machine for tearing books., and Annotated by Horace Walpole below plate line: Sterne, author of Tristam Shandy, done at Florence.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 and Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Subject (Topic):
- Death, Hourglasses, Skeletons, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Sterne and Death] [graphic]
3. [Sir Charles Turner] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [17 June 1782]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 5. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Full length portrait of Sir Charles Turner of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire, in profile to the left. He bends forward, holding his hat in an extended right hand, with his left hand in a muff and a walking stick under his left arm
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Plate numbered "XX" in upper left corner., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 5 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Sir Charles Turner.
- Publisher:
- Published 17th June 1782 by C. Bretherton
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Turner, Charles, Sir, 1727?-1783
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Politicians, Public speaking, Muffs, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Sir Charles Turner] [graphic]
4. [Prince of Orange] [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1801?]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 78. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Prince of Orange in old-fashioned uniform, heavily gold-laced, stands in profile to the left, looking up, both hands resting on a tall cane. He wears a cocked hat, long pigtail, aiguillettes, a star, a long sword, and clumsy jack-boots. He has not the heavy somnolent appearance of Gillray's portraits, cf. British Museum Satires No. 9065, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Possible signature "D12[?]" in lower right, partly scored through. The British Museum catalogue gives a tentative attribution to either Denis or Richard Dighton., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Leaf 78 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, Princes, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Prince of Orange] [graphic]
5. [Portrait of a man in coat and hat with walking stick] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1801]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 801.07.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on an unidentified man strolling in the countryside carrying a stick."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Unknown satirical portrait
- Description:
- Title supplied from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.102. Alternative title from description of an earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 23 December 1773. Cf. No. 4762 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1773 -- Country walking., and Watermark, trimmed: [...] 1799.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 1, 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccdilly [sic]
- Subject (Topic):
- Walking, Staffs (Sticks), and Boots
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of a man in coat and hat with walking stick] [graphic]
6. [Mr. Thomas Blair] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1792] and [not before 1877]
- Call Number:
- 792.00.00.89.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Numbered '142' in lower right of plate., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed.)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Blair, Thomas, -1800.
- Subject (Topic):
- Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Mr. Thomas Blair] [graphic]
7. [Frontispiece to The negotiators, or, Don Diego brought to reason. An excellent new ballad] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1738]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satirical ballad on the unwillingness of the British government to go to war with Spain with a woodcut illustration derived from British Museum Satires No. 2355 showing Robert Walpole holding the tail of the British Lion which holds a staff topped by a crown. The lion is apparently attempting to lunge at a Spaniard holding a whip who has harnessed three English sailors to a cart."--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Negotiators, or, Don Diego brought to reason and Don Diego brought to reason
- Description:
- Title and publication information from British Museum catalogue., Mounted on leaf 73. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
- Publisher:
- R. Thompson
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757
- Subject (Topic):
- Whips, Carts & wagons, Lions, Sailors, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to The negotiators, or, Don Diego brought to reason. An excellent new ballad] [graphic].
8. [Earl of Effingham] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 May 1782]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 7. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Full length portrait of Effingham standing in profile to the right, wearing a sword and carrying two staffs of office
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Probable a later issue, with the number "10" not visible in upper left of plate. Cf. No. 6061 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 7 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Lord Effingham.
- Publisher:
- Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Effingham, Thomas Howard, Earl of, 1747-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Politicians, Daggers & swords, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Earl of Effingham] [graphic]
9. [Duke of Portland] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1783?]
- Call Number:
- 783.01.03.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A smiling corpulent gentleman with the star of the Garter on his left breast walks to the right holding a tasselled walking stick under his right arm
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Publication date conjectured and subject identified from a similar print by James Bretherton., Reduced and reversed copy of a similar print by James Bretherton., and In mirror-image micro-writing in lower left of image: "My Lord."
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809,
- Subject (Topic):
- Staffs (Sticks) and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Duke of Portland] [graphic].
