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1. A picture of wants, or, Human nature delineated [art original].
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1830 and 1852]
- Call Number:
- Drawings G761 no. 9 Box D123
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of twelve man and women of various ages and walks of live -- tradesmen, a clergy, a spinster, a military officer, a gentleman in shackles, a servant, a frail, sickly man, etc. -- stand full length facing the viewer. Above their heads are brief expressions of their 'wants': "I want a job"; "I want more customers"; "I want a husband"; "I want for death", etc. Only an obese gentleman on the right is content: "I want for nothing"; next to him, the military officer with a monocle says, "I don't know what I want."
- Alternative Title:
- Human nature delineated
- Description:
- Title from caption in artist's hand written below image., Quotation following title: Lord, what an amorous thing is want. Hudibras., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Attributed to C.J. Grant based on style and association with other signed drawings., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Distress, Men, Military officers, Occupations, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A picture of wants, or, Human nature delineated [art original].
2. At Exeter Cathedral [art original]
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1809]
- Call Number:
- Drawings N736 no. 5 Box D141
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A large, masculine-looking woman with spectacles and a hat, stands before stool on which sits an open book of music. She holds in her right hand a baton which rests on the open page
- Description:
- Title in artist's hand, lower right corner of image. and Signed with his monogram 'J.N." and dated by the artist.
- Subject (Topic):
- Eyeglasses, Music, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > At Exeter Cathedral [art original]
3. First design for the cul-de-lampe to Mr. Gray's long story [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1753]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 3a Box 1
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A design for a vignette by Bentley showing six older women on a balcony reaching out or looking in horror over the wall (draped in an embroidered cloth) at a scene below. With pencilled in design above
- Alternative Title:
- Sketch for the tailpiece of the Long story
- Description:
- Title from caption written by Horace Walpole on the mount in his portfolio of drawings assembled under the title Drawings and designs, ca. 1760., Added title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso: Sketch for the tailpiece of The long story., Date based on publication date of Gray's work: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 3 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
- Subject (Name):
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
- Subject (Topic):
- Balconies and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > First design for the cul-de-lampe to Mr. Gray's long story [art original].
4. Human nature is fond of novelty - Pliny [art original].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
- Published / Created:
- [late 18th century?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings R79 no. 24 Box D146
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An old officer in uniform with a wrinkled face and carbuncles looks lustfully at a pretty young woman as they walk together on a path, his hand grasping hers
- Description:
- Title inscribed below image., Attributed to Rowlandson., and Date supplied by cataloger.
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, British, Lust, Older people, Young adults, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Human nature is fond of novelty - Pliny [art original].
5. Imitation [art original
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 37 Box D210
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A monkey wears a white bonnet and sits on a chamber pot with arms crossed across her lap in imitation of an elderly woman facing opposite with her dress raised sitting upon a 'closet stool'. The pair stare and grin at each other
- Description:
- Title from inscription below image in the artist's hand., Date devised by cataloger., and Attributed to Woodward.
- Subject (Topic):
- Chamber pots, Monkeys, Imitation, Bonnets, Women, Urination, and Defecation
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Imitation [art original
6. Lucy Waters [art original]
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H263 no. 7 Box D125
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Half-length portrait of Lucy Walter, turned slightly left and looking at the viewer; wearing a pearl necklace, pearl earings, and a blue gown adorned with strings of pearls
- Description:
- Titled by the artist within lower border., Signed in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Date of production supplied by cataloger, based on the dates of similar drawings by G.P. Harding at The Lewis Walpole Library., Note in pencil beneath lower border: From the miniature at Strawberry Hill., Drawn after the miniature owned by Horace Walpole and kept in his Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels at Strawberry Hill. Walpole believed the miniature to have been painted by Samuel Cooper, but it has since been reattributed to Nicholas Dixon; see Christie's sale catalogue "Fine miniatures, enamels and object of art and vertu", 6 July 1965, lot 36., and A print entitled "Lucy Barlow alias Waters", published by Harding's father Sylvester in 1802 for The biographical mirrour, was probably engraved from this drawing; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Contents H263 no. 16.
- Subject (Name):
- Walter, Lucy, 1630?-1658, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Pearls and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lucy Waters [art original]
7. Mrs. Damer & Miss Berry by Cosway [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1816-1818]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 81 Box D166
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portraits of Miss Mary Berry and Mrs. Anne Damer seated across a table from each other in the Library at Strawberry Hill. Each holds a book in her hand; the table on which they lean is also piled with books
- Alternative Title:
- Mrs. Damer and Miss Berry by Cosway
- Description:
- Title in pencil below image added later in a different hand from the note on the verso., Note on verso in black ink in a contemporary hand: Mrs. Seymour Damer & Miss Berry in the Library at Strawberry Hill, a sketch by Cosway., No longer thought to be in the hand of Cosway., and Date based on other drawings in the collection which have been identified as circa 1816 and not before 1818.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828,, Berry, Mary, 1763-1852,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Libraries (Rooms & spaces), and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Damer & Miss Berry by Cosway [art original].
8. Political affection [art original].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
- Published / Created:
- April 1784.
- Call Number:
- Drawings R79 no. 3 Box D145
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- The Duchess of Devonshire sits nursing a fox at her bare breast; the fox is dressed as a child, its paw on her lap. A child sits to her right crying, arms stretched towards her. On the left a cat licks the face of a dog while ignoring her kitten that crawls beside them. A cradle sits empty in the background (left).
- Description:
- Title and date from graphite pencil inscriptions in image., Study for the print of the same title, no. 6546 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and With, on the opposite side of the sheet: a drawing for Reynard put to his shifts by the same artist.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1784, Women in politics, Foxes, Breast feeding, Infants, Women, and Political activity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Political affection [art original].
9. Portraits of ladies in mezzotint after the paintings of famous artists from Anthony Vandyck (1599-1641) to Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) : volume 1[-4]. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [between 1684 and 1799?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 P839 800 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 62
- Abstract:
- A collection of 197 mezzotints of British ladies -- members of the Royal family, the nobility, and ladies of fashion -- by J. Wilson, J. Faber, I. Becket, T. Smith, J. Simon, R. Laurie, James Watson, Spicers, S. Watts, T. Ryley, Jas. McArdell, J.R. Smith, Val. Green, J. Murphy, R. Williams, Richd. Houston, Charles Townley, J. Saunders, Charles Spooner, Philip Corbutt, R. Corbutt, R. Purcell, J. Van der Vaert, E. Fisher, H. Meyer, J. Jones, W. Dickinson, R. Tompson, D. Martin, A. Blooteling, W. Faithorne, H. Gascar, P. Schenk, J. Finlayson, H. Fowler, S. Paul, W. Doughty, Robert Dunkarton, R. Earlom, G. White, and Elizabeth Judkins. Some prints in multiple states, proof impressions, before letters, etc and Portraits are after paintings by: Sir Joshua Reynolds, T. Hudson, W. Wissing, G. Kneller, C. Philips, Zoffany, H.D. Hamilton, C. Read, Berridge, F. Wilson, A. Ramsay, M. Dahl, P. Falconet, R.E. Pine, T. Kettle, H. Hysing, J. Vanderbank, T. Stothard, Hayman, P. Lely, John Robinson, G. Willison, George Knapton, R. Cosway, E.F. Calze, R. Samuel, J. Vandervaert, Ant. Van Dyck, G. Schlaken, J.S. Liotard, Largilliere, N. Hone, J. Highmore, J. Closterman, N. Dance, T. Worlidge, Charles D'Agar, D. Gardiner, Farrel, Hamlet Winstanley, Samuel Cotes, F. Cotes, William Thompson, J. Riley, J.R. Smith, and H. Vorelst
- Alternative Title:
- Bliss collection of portraits of ladies in mezzotint
- Description:
- Letterpress title pages printed in red and black., Each volume with printed table of contents in letterpress; plates arranged alphabetically by sitter., Includes Horace Walpole's copy of "The Lord Churchill's two daughters" / G. Kneller pinxit ; I. Smith fecit., Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd., and For further information consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Portraits of ladies in mezzotint after the paintings of famous artists from Anthony Vandyck (1599-1641) to Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) : volume 1[-4]. [graphic]