Title page with an image of an artist riding on the back of a crow, paint brush in hand, with a sign hanging from his neck. The sign is decorated with a painter's palate and is inscribed: Nous prions fous les oiseaux grands et petits de laisser librement passer Roger Bookem allant de Douvres à Paris
Description:
Title from text incorporated into image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., 'Alfred Crowquill' and the crow-quill symbol are pseudonyms used by Alfred Henry Forrester and his brother Charles Robert Forrester., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Secondary sheet attached to print with title: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro ..., and Secondary sheet 10 x 14 cm.
Artist's trial proof of a steel engraving with corrections of the head and further alterations drawn in pencil and pen and ink directly over the steel engraving. The engraving shows a man wearing a karakul and smoking a hookah
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Corrective notes inscribed in graphite pencil next to drawing: The eyes brighter darker the brow[?] a different shape., and For further information, consult library staff.
Drawing of a mounted Turkish warrior racing to the left and looking back over his shoulder to the right, all four of his horse's outstretched legs off the ground; wearing striped pants, a red fur-collared coat, and a green turban; holding a curved saber in his right hand and grasping the reins with his left hand; a spear with a red flag near the tip rises from his back; tents and pyramids in the background
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., On verso are the ink inscriptions "My dear" and "(Edith Swinburne).", Formerly laid in at page 167 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Drawing of a mounted Turkish warrior racing to the left and looking back over his shoulder to the right, all four of his horse's outstretched legs off the ground; wearing striped pants, a red fur-collared coat, and a green turban; holding a curved saber in his right hand and grasping the reins with his left hand; a spear with a red flag near the tip rises from his back; tents and pyramids in the background
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., On verso are the ink inscriptions "My dear" and "(Edith Swinburne).", Formerly laid in at page 167 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Drawing of a Turkish sultan, possibly Selim I, Selim II, or Selim III; wearing an ornate kaftan and large turban; sitting on a horse that is facing left, the horse adorned with a decorated saddle, gold bridle, and other ornamentation
Alternative Title:
Sultan Selim
Description:
Title from local catalog card; alternative title inscribed in ink above image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., At top of sheet is a trimmed manuscript inscription in French, written in a different hand than the other inscription: [...?] tresiesmo empereur des Turcts[?]., Sheet numbered "7" in ink in lower left corner., Formerly laid in at page 162 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Two Asian figures, a woman and a girl, stand facing each other beneath tall bamboo plants; they wear traditional attire, perhaps that of China
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Title from local card catalog record., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., Image partially cut out of sheet; the blank parts of the sheet have been trimmed away from the top half of the octagonal decorative border, and from around the figures and bamboo plants., Laid in at page 377 in Horace Walpole's copy of Matthew Prior's Poems on several occasions., and Temporary local subject terms: ?China: Social life and customs.
Depiction of a multi-quartered shield with sixteen coats of arms, surmounted by a crown and with the Walpole motto "Fari quae sentiat" written in a banner beneath
Alternative Title:
Horace Walpole's pedigree
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., and Date of production based on acquisition date.
A woman shown half-length is seated in a chair, her left arm on a table and facing right. She wears a bonnet after the dormeuse pattern, adorned with a wide ribbon, tied in a bow in the front Her floral printed dress is ruffled around the neck and the front of the bodice, with ruffles below the elbow. Possibly a depiction of fashions of the late 1770s
Alternative Title:
Fashion-plate
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Date and place from watermark: Hayes & W[...] 1799.