A solicitor approaches a clergyman and doctor; over his head hovers a demonic creature holding a long legal document. The rotund clergyman, looking very displeased, is flanked by the head of an ass peering over his shoulder and a small dog urinating on his voluminous clerical robes. A smug looking doctor carrying a walking stick has one hand upturned pinching his index finger and thumb as if to gesture holding something while a young boy trails afterward holding a written prescription in his extended arm. A picture hanging on the wall depicts a crude drawing of a hanged man
Description:
Title from text inscribed above image., Date suggested by curator., and For further information, consult library staff.
Horace Walpole's sketch of Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massareene, whom he met in Paris several times in November 1765 and January 1766. He is caricatured here holding a bouquet of flowers, walking on his toes
Alternative Title:
Caricature of Lord Massareene
Description:
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), author, politician, and patron of the arts., Title from item; unsigned., and Date based on similar drawing by Walpole in The Lewis Walpole Library: Caricature of an unknown woman
Volume 1, opposite page 95. Memoirs of Count Grammont.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Mary, Princess Royal of England and Princess of Orange and Countess of Nassau by marriage; half-length, turned to the right; her hair in curls; wearing a pearl necklace
Alternative Title:
Mary Princess of Orange, Countess of Nassau
Description:
Title written below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Bound in opposite page 95 in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Hamilton, A. Memoirs of Count Grammont. London : S. and E. Harding, [1793?].
Drawing of Jan Siberechts (ca. 1627-1703), Flemish born landscape painter who settled in England in the early 1670s and established a reputation for his portraits of country houses
Alternative Title:
Mr. John Sybrecht landscape painter
Description:
Title from inscription in ink below image., Signed in ink, lower right: G.V., Inscription in ink, lower right: ob. 1763 Ata 73. in possess. Mr. Van Ost., Inscription in ink, lower left: N. Langillire pinx., Engraving by T. Chambars in Anecdotes of painting identifies artist as: N. Largiliere pinx., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Sybrecht in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII, [1763], v. 3, opp. p. 102., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men stand in the foreground conversing. The man on the left holds a mug out in front of him, while the man on the right smokes a pipe; two dogs playfully run past the men. A house is visible in the background on the right, and the wall of another structure is seen on the far left
Alternative Title:
Mr. Slaughter and Mr. Heeltap talking of the state affairs
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink below image., Signed in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Date from local card catalog record., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Subject (Topic):
Conversation, Drinking vessels, Pipes (Smoking), Dogs, and Dwellings
Title from inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, Full inscription: "Mrs. Mary Beal. Paintress. Born 16[?]5 ob. 1700. Beale. fil. pinxit. Orig. in posses. Alex G[?] [L[?]." "Orig. in posses...." on fragment paste down in lower right corner., For an engraving based on this portrait after Charles Beale, refer to Early British portraits, v. iii, p. 67., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
A drawing of a clergyman shown full-length in black clerical garb facing right in profile as he clasps the hand of a homely woman caricatured with large grotesque features, a tall hairstyle, and large folds of cloth gathered cascading from her waist
Description:
Title from pen and black ink inscribed caption below image. and Date from unverified data from local card catalog reocrd.
Drawing of Nicholas Stone Junior (bap. 1618-1674), English, sculptor and architect, second son of Nicholas Stone Senior (1585-1657).
Alternative Title:
Nicholas Stone junior statuary and architect
Description:
Title from inscription in ink below image on mount., Inscription in ink, above oval image: This may be Nicholas Stone Jun. Painted at Rome ano. 1638 as he mentions in his journal., Inscription in ink, below oval image: a sketch of a head pianted in Oyl in an oval. Sold in Mr. Gibbons [illegible] sale, called Mr. Stone., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Stone in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 23., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Oval drawing of Nicholas Stone Senior (1586-1647), leading sculptor, master mason, and architect, in London in the mid-17th century
Description:
Title from inscription in ink, below image., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Stone in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 23., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.