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334. [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]
335. [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]
336. [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]
337. [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]