Scene showing the actor and dramatist Samuel Foote in the role of Fondlewife, a character in William Congreve's comedy "The Old Bachelor". Foote wears a long unfastened, deep-cuffed coat over a waistcoat, breeches tied at the knee, and a tassled scarf knotted at his neck. He holds a tall walking stick in his right hand
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777, and Congreve, William, 1670-1729.
Ink and pencil copy of an eighteenth-century engraved portrait of John Watson, Church of England clergyman and antiquary. Watson is drawn half-length directed to the right, with his head almost in profile, right hand on hip, left holding a scroll in front of him with his elbow propped on an unseen ledge; wearing dark clerical robes with waistband, and white bell-bottomed wig. A numbered .5 cm grid is penciled over the ink drawing
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., A copy of a 1780 engraved portrait by James Basire after Daniel Stringer., and For further information, consult library staff.
A sketch by Bentley for Thomas Gray's Ode on the destruction of the Welsh bards: a landscape with figures on horseback and the bard with attendants on a cliff on the upper left. On the verso, lower edge, a sketch of a head with a helmet in grey wash with swatch of wash background
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date and attribution based on other drawings for the publication., With watermark on top portion of sheet: L.V. Gerrevink., Horace Walpole's ms. note on mount below image on leaf 11 referring to this and the image above on leaf 12: This and the two following are sketches for Mr. Gray's Ode on the destruction of the Welsh bards., and Formerly mounted on bottom half of leaf 12 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
A man holds a lady's hand as she descends a flight of stairs overlooking a pond. To the left in the distance are shown two figures in a row boat on the water
Description:
Inscription in pencil on verso: Cut mount to fit shape of inlay piece., Robert Dighton, English draughtsman, 1752-1814., For further information, consult library staff., and Watermark.