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1. A gentlemans seat on Stockwell Common, Surry [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [12 September 1792]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 L847 750
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 62. London and its environs about 1750.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View of a mansion, with wall and gate in front, figures in the foreground including a man making a drawing of the house and another walking to the left with a dog behind him, sheep grazing to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Gentlemans seat on Stockwell Common, Surrey
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Twelfth in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 62 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
- Publisher:
- Published 12th Sepr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Stockwell (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Dwellings, Estates, Walls, and Sheep
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A gentlemans seat on Stockwell Common, Surry [graphic].
2. Account for brickmaking and building the garden wall for the Honble. Sir Christ. Musgrave at Eden Hall, 1731 May -1734 June
- Creator:
- Railton, George
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss File 38
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, describing the work of four men who made a garden wall at Sir Christopher Musgrave's estate, Edenhall. The accounting includes 39,500 bricks as well as other supplies and the labour in a specified number of days. Final payment is recorded in June 1734
- Description:
- In English., Title from first page., and For further information consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Musgrave, Christopher, Sir, 1688-1736.
- Subject (Topic):
- Walls and Design and construction
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Account for brickmaking and building the garden wall for the Honble. Sir Christ. Musgrave at Eden Hall, 1731 May -1734 June
3. The park politicians [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [8 December 1766]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 766.12.08.01 Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 50. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in winter outside the walls of a palace, possibly in St. James's park (based on the sentry box). On the left a leafless tree hangs over a short, fat gentleman with a tall stick who faces right and appears to be talking to Lord Chatham in top boots and muff. In the middle of the design stands a doctor, in an old-fashioned wig and slit shoes, sniffing his gold-headed cane. A tall man and a very short man walk, with their backs to us, towards the sentry box under the palace walls
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge., Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Sentries -- Sentry box -- Male costume, 1766., Watermark, partially trimmed., Artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet., and Lord Chatham identified by ms. note in red ink at bottom of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to act, Decr. 8, 1766, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Saint James's Park (London, England), and England
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Muffs, Staffs (Sticks), Guards, Guardhouses, and Walls
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The park politicians [graphic]
4. The park politicians [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [8 December 1766]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 50. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in winter outside the walls of a palace, possibly in St. James's park (based on the sentry box). On the left a leafless tree hangs over a short, fat gentleman with a tall stick who faces right and appears to be talking to Lord Chatham in top boots and muff. In the middle of the design stands a doctor, in an old-fashioned wig and slit shoes, sniffing his gold-headed cane. A tall man and a very short man walk, with their backs to us, towards the sentry box under the palace walls
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge., Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Sentries -- Sentry box -- Male costume, 1766., First of two plates on leaf 50., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.2 x 24.4 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to act, Decr. 8, 1766, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Saint James's Park (London, England), and England
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Muffs, Staffs (Sticks), Guards, Guardhouses, and Walls
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The park politicians [graphic]
