Latin verses written by Horace Walpole probably while a student at Eton
Description:
In Latin., With a plain paper wrapper (19th century paper) embossed with the seal of one of the Earls of Derby, probably the 14th or 15th Earl, both Knights of the Garter., and For further information consult library staff.
"Portrait of Sir William Temple, half-length to right, with head turned to front, looking towards left; wearing a wig, loose gown, and lace cravat; in an oval frame decorated on top with Acanthus leaves and ribbon lettered with motto "Servare modum [...] sequi.", placed on a pedestal, with coat of arms in front."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Frontipiece to: The works of Sir William Temple. London : Printed for A. Churchill, T. Goodwin, J. Knapton, R. Smith, B. Tooke [and 6 others in London], 1720., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of Latin text below title: Sermi. et Potmi. Mag. Brittanniae Regis ad Ords. Faedti. Belgÿ̈ Legatus ..., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 76 (leaf numbered '125' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
A. Churchill, T. Goodwin, J. Knapton, R. Smith, B. Tooke, and 6 others
"Portrait of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland, three-quarter length, standing, turned to the right, but looking towards the viewer, wearing low-cut silk dress with ample sleeves, with right hand resting on monumental stone vase, and left hand pointing up; in ornate frame; after Anthony van Dyck."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of ornate frame and all text below image. Title, statements of responsibility, and imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 46 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
"Portrait of Henry VIII, half length in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing plumed hat and chains; illustration to Gilbert Burnet's 'Historie of the Reformation' (London, Richard Chiswell, 1681)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Effigies Henry VIII and Effigies Henry the Eighth
Description:
Title from text in image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0822.2397., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate to Burnet's Hist. of the Reformation, published by R. Chiswell 1681., "Pag. 1"--Lower left corner, preceding imprint statment., and Mounted in white paper frame: 393 x 258 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for Ric: Chiswell, at the Rose and Crowne in St. Pauls Church yard
Volume 1, page 3. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a Cambridge student: a young man on horseback with a macaroni queue holding out a driving whip as if it is a lance and galloping to right; the horse is defecating; a hound runs beside them; in the distance on the right King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and For an earlier state before drypoint additions to the plate, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770.
Volume 1, page 3. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a Cambridge student: a young man on horseback with a macaroni queue holding out a driving whip as if it is a lance and galloping to right; the horse is defecating; a hound runs beside them; in the distance on the right King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., For an earlier state before drypoint additions to the plate, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770., Mounted on page 3 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 10.2 x 16.5 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Annotation by Horace Walpole in ink in lower left corner of sheet: H.W.B. f.
"Satire with a woman holding on to a young man charging down an urban street in a carriage drawn by four horses, with a woman and two boys protecting them with weapons; printed below in letterpress five columns of mock-heroic verse describing the event."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Approximate date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Five columns of verse in letterpress below image, arranged in two numbered cantos: Canto I. Never traced I valour's perfect line, 'till in a buck, competitor of mine ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet mutilated in lower left corner with some loss of text, and sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Allusion to Ajax -- Allusion to Hector -- Literature: Quotation from Gay, John, 1685-1732 -- Phaetons -- Latin expressions -- Blunderbuss guns.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 and Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820
Subject (Topic):
Elopements, Firearms, Servants, and Carriages & coaches
Four oval portraits, one occupying each quadrant of the plate, of the 41st through 44th Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller (Knights of Malta). The sitter's name is engraved within the surrounding border of each portrait. A decorative cross fills the space in the center, as do the Roman numerals XLI-XLIV, which number the portraits
Alternative Title:
F. Guido de Blanchefort ; F. Fabritius de Carretto ; F. Philippus de Villers Lisle Adam ; F. Perinus de Ponte
Description:
Titles from text within the borders of the portraits., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem. Rome : [Populus Romanus], [1586-]1588., Imperfect; only the portrait in the lower left quadrant is present, with the rest of the plate trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 148 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Mounted beside a sheet (5.5 x 15.2 cm), trimmed from the bottom of a different portrait plate, with the engraved title: Philippe Villiers de L'isle-Adam, Grand Prieur de France ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Populus Romanus
Subject (Name):
Blanchefort, Guy de, 1446-1513, Carretto, Fabrizio del, 1455-1521, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Philippe, 1464-1534, and Ponte, Piero del, 1462-1535
Front and back views of a bronze statue of a woman carrying a pig in one hand and a child in the other, to be sacrificed. The object was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., "Ex aere" etched twice in lower part of plate, once below each image., "Tab. II"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 192 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 19.7 x 17.4 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.