Title written in ink on lower left corner., Signature and date not in Rowlandson's hand., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Volume 2, opposite page 198. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
John Bannister (as Whiskerandos in 'The critic')
Description:
Title written in pencil in lower right corner. Alternative title from note in ink on mounting sheet: John Bannister (as Whiskerandos in 'The Critic')., Signed and dated by the artist in pencil., Possibly the original design for an engraving by R. Smith that was published by John Cawthorn in 1806; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1933,1014.421. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 116. For a brief mention of De Wilde's portrait of Bannister as Whiskerandos, and the engraving after it by Smith, see: A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1600-1800, v.1, pages 272-3., and Mounted opposite page 198 (leaf numbered '9' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Bannister, John, 1760-1836,
An unfinished sketch for the engraving which appeared in the November 1845 issue of "George Cruikshank's Table-book," illustrating a brief article on railroad speculation by the periodical's editor, Gilbert Abbott a Beckett. John Bull is beset by lilliputian tormentors who are removing all his cash, clothing, and possessions, beneath clouds of steam and a clanging bell
Alternative Title:
Anticipated effects of the railway calls
Description:
Title from pencil annotation below image, in the artist's hand., Text above image: George Cruikshank's "Table Book"., and With additional pencil drawings and artist’s notes in the margins.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Auctions, Fictitious characters, Money, and Railroads
View of the real-life Castle of Otranto in Italy. The gray structure is seen in the middle distance beyond a low stone wall, one branch of which extends towards the viewer in the right foreground. Blue-tinted mountains are visible in the far distance on either side of the castle. A green lawn occupies the rest of the foreground; a blue sky completes the top half of the image
Description:
Title from contemporary note in ink on strip of paper pasted on facing page of volume., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on death date of Richard Bull, who owned the volume in which this drawing is mounted., Another version of this drawing, presumably by John Carter, was also owned by Richard Bull. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 11., and Mounted before title page in Richard Bull's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. London : Printed for Tho. Lownds in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXV [1765].
"A man in ragged but quasi-fashionable dress rides (right to left) an ass through a river which flows past a steep mountain. The animal jibs, with ears set back; the rider raises a whip in each hand. He wears, and uses, three pairs of spurs, and attached to his shoulders and to the ass is a monstrous pile of bladders inscribed respectively 'Repartee', 'Nonsensical Verses', 'Catastrophe', 'Sentiment', 'Blasphemies', 'Puns', 'Duels', 'Double Entendres', 'Metaphors', 'Ghosts', 'Melting Speeches', 'Squibs', 'Dialogue', 'Daggers Poisons'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print engraved after this drawing and A rough pencil sketch of the same design but lacking much of the detail on the verso
Alternative Title:
Dramatic author foiled in his endeavor to ascend Parnassus
Description:
Title written below image, in the artist's hand., Unsigned; artist attribution from statement of responsiblity "Giles Grinagain in. et f." present on the print made after this drawing., Date surmised from that of the print based on this drawing., Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue., and Original design for a print first published by S. Howitt in 1802 and then reissued by S.W. Fores in 1804. Changes in the printed version include the replacement of the word "endeavor" in the title with "attempt," and the elimination of the speech bubble emanating from the man. Cf. No. 10334 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8.
Title derived from verse written in ink below image., Inscription in ink., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local subject terms: Corns.
Title written in ink at center margin, Artist's name in ink at lower right., Pencil notation verso, "By Robert Cruikshank not signed by him ND 1830"., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Volume 2, page 158a. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four designs showing partial decorative borders, probably those of the 16th-century illuminated psalter of Don Giulio Clovio, owned by Horace Walpole and sold in lot 90 on the fifteenth day of the 1842 Strawberry Hill Sale
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., Upper right design has the note "ground all blue" written vertically in blue watercolor., and Bound in as page 158a in volume 2 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Three doctors stand together in discussion, wearing wigs and tailcoats. The man on the right holds a wine glass; bottles and additional glasses sit on a table behind him. In the background on the left the patient can be seen, lying in a canopy bed
Description:
Title and date supplied by curator., Unsigned; attribution to Rowlandson from curator., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: John Crompton -- William Esdaile -- [*R. Willett].
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Discussion, Sick persons, and Canopy beds