Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- George Grenville, 1712-1770., Mounted to 34 x 45 cm., Watermark., and Subjects identified and other information added on recto in a contemporary hand.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1720-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Title in ink at bottom center. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Human skeleton, Alcoholism, Gluttony, and Death (Personification).
View of Horace Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill, the white house seen at a distance through a break in the trees. A green lawn extends towards the viewer in the foreground; a blue sky is visible above
Description:
Title from note in pencil at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Unsigned; questionable attribution to Edward Edwards from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., Drawn in the center of a proof state of the engraved frontispiece to: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]., and Bound in opposite title page 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 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from item., Date and place of publication derived from identical illustration in: The Heteradelph or, Double-bodied Boy, introduced to the public by Dr. Kahn's Museum, London : J. Gilbert, 1857., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Anomalies, Abnormalities, Human, Human curiosities, and Boys
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[September 1762]
Call Number:
762.09.00.07
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Scotch preferment in motion, Monsuiers will you ride, and Monsieurs will you ride
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Animals: zebra -- White Horse of Hanover -- Scots., and Watermark: unidentified countermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., Engraving attributed to William Ward from historic data., Sheet trimmed within platemark., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Lovesickness, Pulse, Sick persons, Physicians, and Cupids
"Men with a plague-cart burying victims at night in a field, one to left using a long hooked pole to pull the corpses from the cart into a pit; in a neo-classical frame; illustration to Barnard's 'History of England'." -- from British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date supplied by curator., Printmaker and place of publication derived from version in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Plague, Mass burials, Dead persons, Night, Pipe smoking, Grave digging, Horses, and Carts & wagons
Drawing of a scene from the gothic novel The Monk: A romance by Matthew Gregory Lewis. Ambrosio, a Spanish monk seemingly into his moral downfall, approaches Matilda either aggressively or lustfully with both arms raised in the air, a serious countenance on his face. Standing to his left Maltida (first known as Rosario) is wearing the same simple monks' robes as Ambrosio though she has pulled the top aside to expose her bosom and pulled of her hood to reveal her long curly blonde hair and feminine features
Description:
Title and artist's signature from inscription in brown ink on verso. and Date based on publication date of the novel: The monk: a romance / by Matthew Gregory Lewis.
Page 25. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the monument in St. Mary's Church, with the bust of the Countess of Ailesbury sitting on a pedestal at center, head shrouded. Columns supporting an ornate roof flank the bust on either side, the area between their bases decorated with a pattern of quatrefoils. A winged cherub head hangs from the bottom of each column. A scale bar runs along the bottom of the sheet
Alternative Title:
Monument of the Countess of Ailesbury in the church at Sundridge, Kent
Description:
Title written in ink at bottom of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on watermark: A. Blackwell & G. Jones 1802., and Mounted on page 25 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
From Horace Walpole's 1784 edition of Description of the villa, he describes the Beauclerk drawings thus: "The beauty and grace of the figures and of the children are inimitable; the expression of the passions most masterly, particularly in the devotion of the countess with the porter, of Benedict in the scene with Martin, and the tenderness, despair, and resolution of the countess in the last scene; in which is a new stroke of double passion in Edmund, whose right hand is clenched and ready to strike with anger, the left hand relents. In the scene of the children, some are evidently vulgar, the others children of rank; and the first child, that pretends to look down and does leer upwards, is charming. Only two scenes are represented in all the seven, and yet all are varied; and the ground in the first, by a very uncommon effect, evidently descends and rises again. These sublime drawings are the first histories she ever attempted, were all conceived and executed in a fortnight."
Description:
Title, date and artist name written by Horace Walpole on the verso, in ink., One of six Beauclerk drawings for Mysterious mother in The Lewis Walpole Library., and Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808.