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- Published / Created:
- [not after 1754]
- Call Number:
- Folio 83 754Ar
- Image Count:
- 18
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Title from spine: Architectural drawings., Ms. note on front pastedown: 4th night lt 70. Bought at Doctor Mead's sale --- £2=2=0., and Press-mark on front flyleaf "A.L.30."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy, Agrigento., and Agrigento (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Fazello, Tommaso, 1498-1570.
- Subject (Topic):
- Temples, Greek and Antiquities
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Architectural drawings of Greek temples in Agrigento, Sicily drawn from the 1560 edition of Tommaso Fazello's De rebus siculis decades duae] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Boyle-Walsingham, Charlotte, 1769-1831, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1789]
- Call Number:
- 53 R259 777D
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of amateur watercolor drawings that illustrate various scenes from Clara Reeve's Gothic novel The old English baron. The drawings are inserted throughout the printed text of the fourth edition, bound in near the scenes that are depicted. Although untitled, the drawings have been assigned titles that derive from the text
- Description:
- Collection title devised by cataloger., Each drawing is signed 'C. Boyle' and most are dated with the month, day, and year of production. The artist is probably Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham (1769-1831), who married Lord Henry Fitzgerald in 1791; she legally changed her name to Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros in 1806, after successfully petitioning to end the abeyance to the Barony of de Ros and becoming 20th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley., Bound in a copy of: Reeve, C. The old English baron: a Gothic story. London : Printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXXXIX [1789]., Lacking the two published plates., Bound in vellum with gilt edges and tooling and with pink silk endpapers., Extra-illustrated with eight watercolor drawings on vellum, produced by Charlotte Boye in 1789 (these drawings are cataloged separately)., Autograph (Fitz-Gerald?) scratched out on page iii., and In red case.
- Subject (Name):
- Reeve, Clara, 1729-1807.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Charlotte Boyle's drawings for The old English baron] [art original].
- Creator:
- DeWint, Peter, 1784-1849, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1829 and 1835]
- Call Number:
- 75 D521 829
- Image Count:
- 12
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A series of eight, small watercolor drawings depicting castles and country houses in England and Wales. The views show: Brancepeth Castle near Durham; Enville Hall in Staffordshire; New Weir on the river Wye, Herefordshire; Hagley Hall, Worcestershire; Hereford Cathedral from across the river Wye; St Paul’s Walden Bury, Hertfordshire; Lumley Castle near Durham; and Chirk Castle near Wrexham, north Wales
- Alternative Title:
- Drawings by De Wint
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Peter DeWint., Date based on DeWint's visits to Wales between 1829 and 1835. See Oxford dictionary of national biography., Drawings are mounted an album of thirty-four unnumbered blank leaves; each drawing is captioned by the artist below in ink, some are numbered in pencil. Bound in nineteenth-century half black roan over marbled boards with the spine lettered in gilt ‘Drawings by De Wint’; marbled endpapers and edges; old bookseller’s description pasted at foot of first page., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Wales
- Subject (Topic):
- Cathedrals, Dwellings, Estates, and Castles & palaces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings of castles and scenes in England and Wales] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1741]
- Call Number:
- 49 2359
- Image Count:
- 26
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of drawings by George Vertue of items in the Earl of Oxford's collection, many presumably sold in the sale of 1741-2. Among the items depicted are urns, busts and statues, various fragments with Greek inscriptions, a medal, an ossuary, and a sarcophagus. The group of drawings ends with a copy the portrait by Van Dyck of Sir Kenelm Digby and his family, and it begins with Vertue's orginal drawing for the engraved frontispiece to: A catalogue of Greek, Roman and English coins, medallions and medals, of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford, deceased
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Bound by George Vertue in a volume with Harleian catalogues and plates., and Original mottled calf, rebacked. Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis's notes on back endpaper.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, 1689-1741, Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665,, and Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633,
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Art, Private collections, Sculpture, Portraits, Urns, Medals, and Sarcophagi
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [George Vertue's drawings of items in the collection of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1731 and 1756]
- Call Number:
- 49 2378
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawings showing the floor plan and views of the walls on which were hung paintings and against which statues and other artwork were placed. The second drawing is titled "Plan of rooms that contains [sic] the statues & the pictures" in ink above, and the fourth drawing is titled "View of one end of the great room design'd by Inigo Jones" in ink below. The first drawing depicts a large painting by Van Dyck on the wall at a different end the great room, described in the printed text as "a landskip [sic] with dogs, and in the clouds are three angels ...".
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., One of the four drawings with horizontal orientation., Bound by Horace Walpole in his copy of: Gambarini, C. Description of the Earl of Pembroke's pictures. Westminster : A. Campbell, 1731., and Bound in old mottled calf. With slipcase.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Wiltshire., and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, Earl of, 1656-1733 and Wilton House (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Art, Private collections, Sculpture, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [George Vertue's plans and drawings of the rooms at Wilton House containing the pictures and statues in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke] [art original].
147.
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1770]
- Call Number:
- 75 B87B St45
- Container / Volume:
- v.1
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of drawings that illustrate select scenes from Laurence Sterne's novel The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. The drawings vary in level of detail and completeness; one is a slight pencil sketch, two are more detailed drawings in pen and ink over pencil, and three are elaborate drawings in ink and wash. The drawings are bound in as either the frontispiece or before the frontispiece, one in each of the six volumes of the eighth edition of the work. Several of the compositions were later engraved, presumably from larger designs by Bunbury
- Description:
- Collection title devised by cataloger., The drawings are unsigned, and only one has a title written at the bottom., Bound in H.W. Bunbury's copy of: Sterne, L. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770., In slipcase., and With H.W. Bunbury's original drawings (cataloged separately) bound in; also with verses in unidentified hand on end-papers of v. 4.
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Henry William Bunbury's drawings for The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman] [art original].
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1853]
- Call Number:
- 24 17 791P Copy 5
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page xxxii. Castle of Otranto.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An interior view of the fictional castle in Horace Walpole's Gothic novel, with the landing of a stairway seen through an arched passageway. The stairs and associated banister turn left and ascend to the landing on the next level, which is bathed in light from above. The stairs leading downward drop out of view, with the top of a large arched window visible at the next level down
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted opposite page xxxii in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Castles & palaces, Interiors, Stairways, and Windows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Inside the Castle of Otranto] [art original].