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Published / Created:: [December 1832]
Call Number:: 832.12.00.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An obese, angry-faced man in a night cap sits in a chair glaring out the window, his two gouty feet are bandaged and propped up on a pillow; both of his arms are also bandaged, his right arm in a sling. He is wearing a night cap and a heavy, lined robe; a cane rests against the arm of his upholstered chair. On the table to his right and on the floor to his left are bottles of medicine with labels. Behind him on the wall is a framed picture of a volcano. Three window panes are decorated with sprigs of holly with red berries
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Published Decr. 1832 by O. Hodgson, Cloth Fair, Smithfield
Subject (Topic):: Gout, Anger, Diseases, Medicine, Obesity, and Volcanic eruptions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > I wish you the same madam with all my heart!! [graphic].

Published / Created:: [not before 1779]
Call Number:: 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
Collection Title:: Page 186. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title and date from contemporary note in ink on a separate sheet, mounted below drawing., Unsigned; artist unidentified., and Mounted on page 186 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 (Geographic):: Vesuvius (Italy)
Subject (Topic):: Eruption, 1779, Volcanoes, and Volcanic eruptions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The eruption of Vesuvius, 1779 [art original].

Published / Created:: [approximately 1800?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 87 Box D207
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A view with an active volcano in the center in the distance, steam rising from the top. On the right on a hilltop is a walled monastery. In the foreground, one woman rides on a horse side saddle while another woman walks ahead; the two are followed by a dog. The areas of the drawing are numbered as follows: 1. The hillside, 2. The wall surrounding the monestary, 3. The river surrounding the hillside, 4. The active volcano in the center of the image, 5. A range of hills on the left in the far distance, and 6. the hills mid-iew, beneath the active volcano. In the upper left corner, the image is numbered "XI".
Description:: Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):: Italy
Subject (Topic):: Dogs, Horses, Monasteries, Volcanoes, Volcanic eruptions, and Women
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [View of a volcano and monastery] [art original].