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19. [Shields] [art original].
- Creator:
- Tovey, J., active 1793-1801, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1793]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 142 793D
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 404.1. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of twenty armorial shields arranged in four rows, decorated images of animals including lions rampant or passant, a griffin rampant, a fish, a greyhound, or an eagle; other decorative elements include a helmet, three chalices, a fleur-de-lis, a Tudor rose, and a carbuncle
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted on page 404.1 in volume 2 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
- Subject (Topic):
- Escutcheons (Heraldry)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Shields] [art original].
20. [Sketch for Gray's Bard with landscape] [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1753?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 12b Box 1
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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].
- Subject (Name):
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Sketch for Gray's Bard with landscape] [art original].
21. [Sketch for Gray's Bard with three floating figures] [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1753?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 12a Box 1
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A sketch by Bentley for Thomas Gray's Ode on the destruction of the Welsh bards: three bearded figures one of whom holds a harp (the bard).
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Date and attribution based on other drawings for the publication., Horace Walpole's ms. note on mount below image on leaf 11 referring to this and the image below 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 top half of leaf 12 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
- Subject (Name):
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Sketch for Gray's Bard with three floating figures] [art original].
22. [Studies of heads] [art original]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1795]
- Call Number:
- Drawings G41 no. 7 Box D120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A drawing of six heads mostly in profile, three men, two ladies, and one child, all wearing hats. One lady in the upper right is a view from the back with only a hit of her check shown while the man in the foreground is shown full-face. A drawing in the lower left has been heavily scored through. From the left margin mid-sheet is a drawing of a sleeved-wrist and hand hold a stick(?).
- Alternative Title:
- Miscellaneous heads
- Description:
- Title from dealer's description; alternative title from Draper Hill., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Date from Draper Hill., and A drawing from a sketchbook given by Gillray to the Rev. John Sneyd in the late 1790s.
- Subject (Topic):
- Heads (Anatomy), Children, Hats, Men, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Studies of heads] [art original]
23. [The triple plea] [art original]
- Creator:
- Pembroke, Thomas, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1740]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 56 Box 5
- Collection Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satirical drawing on the professions of medicine, law and the church. Three practitioners stand in a well furnished interior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document, the clergyman a book, and the physician a phial. Pictures on the wall show men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tithes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside
- Description:
- Title from that of the print likely engraved after this drawing., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Date of production based on that assigned to the print with the same image in reverse by Louis Philippe Boitard. See online record for no. 1775 in the British Museum online catalogue., Formerly laid in at page 207 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Interiors, Lawyers, Pictures, Physicians, and Quarreling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The triple plea] [art original]
24. [The triple plea] [art original]
- Creator:
- Pembroke, Thomas, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1740]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 56 Box 5
- Collection Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satirical drawing on the professions of medicine, law and the church. Three practitioners stand in a well furnished interior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document, the clergyman a book, and the physician a phial. Pictures on the wall show men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tithes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside
- Description:
- Title from that of the print likely engraved after this drawing., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Date of production based on that assigned to the print with the same image in reverse by Louis Philippe Boitard. See online record for no. 1775 in the British Museum online catalogue., Formerly laid in at page 207 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Interiors, Lawyers, Pictures, Physicians, and Quarreling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The triple plea] [art original]
25. [Theatrical scene 4] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1796]
- Call Number:
- Waller no. 27
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Scene from Roman father and Theatrical scene four
- Description:
- Title devised by curator. and Approximate date based on that of a print in the same collection done in a similar style and depicting a similar theatrical scene. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Waller no. 24.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Theatrical scene 4] [art original].
26. [Urns, jugs and vases] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of various containers sitting on an ornate mantel or shelf. Possibly drawn from life at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham; alternatively, it could be a design drawing for the villa
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., With several pencil sketches of a man's arm on verso., and Formerly laid in at page 97 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Containers, Vases, Urns, and Mantels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Urns, jugs and vases] [art original].