- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1800]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
- Collection Title:
- Page 4a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of one of the chairs, designed in a Gothic style by Richard Bentley and Horace Walpole, that were in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., and Inlaid on page 4a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Chairs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Gothic chair [art original]
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- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1800]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
- Collection Title:
- Page 4b. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of the table of Sicilian jasper on a black frame, designed by Richard Bentley, in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., and Inlaid on page 4b in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Tables
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Gothic table [art original]
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1826?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 32 Box D160
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A father and son of African descent, drawn full-length and holding hands are dressed identically: long blue coats, black hats with the brim pulled down just above the eyes, yellow gloves, and holding brown umbrellas
- Description:
- Title from caption inscribed in black ink below drawing., Drawing after (?) a character in series of prints issued by S.W. Fores: Hyde Park; The little unknown (Plate 2) and The honey-moon (Plate 3)., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Clothing & dress, Fathers, and Sons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A chip of the old block [art original].
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1830 and 1852]
- Call Number:
- Drawings G761 no. 3 Box D123
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A drawing of four scenes, with caricatured figures with large heads and very small bodies. Upper left: A man with a monocle (right) inquires of the butler on a threshold with pillar to his left, "Is your master within. No Mr. Smallfeast he's gone out to dinner. Oh dear me, well your mistress will do just the same. & She's out Sir. How provoking. Well, I'll set down by the fire till they come home. I'm sorry to tell you that that's gone out to." Upper right: A soldier is shot by a man (Turk?) hiding in the tall grass and pointing a rifle. Lower half, left: In a pulpit a bald minister with spectacles rants and he holds up a Bible in his left hand ready to throw it at the sleeping congregation below, " Ye sleepy crew if ye wont hear the owrd of God ye shall feel it." Lower right: A simpleton in artist attire holds up a piece of paper with a stick figure drawing and says, "Don't you think I improve."
- Description:
- Title from captions written each image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Butlers, Clergy, Congregations, Soldiers, British, and Sleeping
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A disappointed dinnerhunter A bullet in ; A long sermon ; A neglected genius. [art original]
- Creator:
- Wyatt, Matthew Cotes, 1777-1862, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1807]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 1 Copy 2
- Collection Title:
- Page 26. Odes.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Sketch of a house, surrounded by trees and a low fence
- Description:
- Title and statement of responsibility written in ink on separate strip of paper (2.4 x 18.8 cm) mounted above drawing. and Mounted on page 26 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Gray, T. Odes. Printed at Strawberry-Hill, for R. & J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1757.
- Subject (Name):
- Cobham, Anne Halsey, Viscountess, -1760
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A drawing of Lady Cobham's house at Stoke see Gray's Long story / [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].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1819?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings C889 no. 4 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A drawing consisting of two panels. The left panel, "A Visit to my Uncle" depicts two women, one of a lower class than the other, visiting an elderly man, a money-lender, who is standing behind a counter. Instruments, possibly of gold, rest on the counter and behind the man. The right panel, "A Visit to my Aunt," depicts the same two women being served drinks by a corpulent woman behind a counter
- Alternative Title:
- Visit to my uncle and a visit to my aunt
- Description:
- Title from item., Inscription in ink underneath title: Original drawing., George Cruikshank, English graphic artist and son of Isaac Cruikshank (1764-1811, caricaturist), 1792-1878., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Visiting, Families, and Usury
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A visit to my uncle & a visit to my aunt [art original].
- Creator:
- Williams, Edward, 1782-1855, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1843]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W721 no. 1 Box D170
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Pen and ink drawing divided into two parts, with an alderman on the left and a chamberlain on the right, framed in a elaborate border (suggesting a tent or fortress) of checkerboard and geometric designs. The stout alderman, spoon and fork in hand, wears a napkin pinned around his neck; he has a full spoon at his mouth and a plate of food and a mostly empty glass decanter rest upon the table in front of him. On the right the chamberlain, dressed in fur-lined robes and wearing his glasses raised up to his bald forehead, is shown with one arm raised and subtley pointing upwards while the left arm rests upon a large document entitled: This indenture wit. A coat of arms is displayed at the top of the design
- Alternative Title:
- Chamberlain
- Description:
- Title in artist's hand at top of design; artist signature and date inscribed in pen and black ink below image. Subtitle in banner below design.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Alderman. The chamberlain veluti in speculum / [art original]
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1805]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 44 Box D215
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man riding horseback has a significant accident that topples the horse and throws the rider forward against the horse's neck and head losing his hat and wig in the process. A caption above the image informs: This I pressume is by way of proving to a certainty that two and two makes four!!
- Description:
- Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand., Signed by the artist in black ink below image., and Date supplied by cataloger.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses, Horseback riding, and Accidents
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An arithmetician!! [art original]
- Published / Created:
- [1840?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 37 Box D160
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A copy of an illiterate bricklayer's bill that was written with pictographs; the artist included a narrative description of its meaning below the image. The pictographs included three different sized stick-figures (two men and one boy), a four-square grid with three of the four squares filled with dots (three quarters of a day), two "Y" shaped symbols (hods of mortar), two "X" shaped symbols (10 shillings & 10 pence), and a sketch of a hanged man (a settled bill).
- Description:
- Title from text inscribed with black ink within image., Date from note inscribed with graphite pencil below image., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Symbols
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An exact copy of a bill for the sum of ten shillings & ten pence sent by a bricklayer to a gentleman for whom he had worked (the bricklayer could not write). [art original]