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1. A collection of prints and a drawing collected by Horace Walpole to illustrate his copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1787?]
- Call Number:
- 49 3069
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London : Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785).
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Also bound in are three prints described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum; these are cataloged separately., and Original boards with new back but old hand-lettered label, uncut. With Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP2 later state) on half-title page. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron. Press-mark R.10, but apparently moved from the Round Tower to the Library in the Offices. Not in Walpole's Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of the Earl of Orford (1813-94), imitated from Horace Walpole's, and bookplate of John A. Spoor. Also with bookplate "AHA".
- Subject (Name):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of prints and a drawing collected by Horace Walpole to illustrate his copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
2. A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality [graphic].
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
- Published / Created:
- [1774?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3588 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 86
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
- Description:
- Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, British and Landscapes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality [graphic].
3. A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality [graphic].
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
- Published / Created:
- [1774?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3588 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 64
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
- Description:
- Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, British and Landscapes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality [graphic].
4. Edme Bouchardon sculpteur ordinaire du Roy, professeur en con Académie de peinture & de sculpture, decédé le 27 Juillet 1762 / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Beauvarlet, Jacques-Firmin, 1731-1797, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1776]
- Call Number:
- Portraits B752 no. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of French sculptor Edme Bouchardon, half-length, sitting in armchair, head turned to right; in oval frame, on pedestal, with sculptor's tools"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title in image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 10,0610.66., and Ownership stamp on verso, in diamond shape frame: E.L.
- Publisher:
- Beauvarlet?
- Subject (Name):
- Bouchardon, Edme, 1698-1762,
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculptors and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Edme Bouchardon sculpteur ordinaire du Roy, professeur en con Académie de peinture & de sculpture, decédé le 27 Juillet 1762 / [graphic]
5. The Right Hon. William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville from an original picture by W. Owen, Esq. R.A. / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Agar, John Samuel, approximately 1770-approximately 1835, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1815]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, half-length, standing slightly to right, with head turned to look to left; wearing ornate gown of Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and lace cravat; curtain behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue and Half-length portrait of English statesman William Wyndham Grenville, facing slightly left
- Alternative Title:
- Right Honourable William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 324 (leaf numbered '147' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- Published March 1, 1815, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Right Hon. William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville from an original picture by W. Owen, Esq. R.A. / [graphic]
6. The Right Honble. Henry Lord Viscount Sidmouth [graphic]
- Creator:
- Scriven, Edward, 1775-1841, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1836]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Half-length portrait of British statesman Henry Addington Viscount Sidmouth, seated, facing front and "Portrait of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, over half-length, seated to front, with hands folded, looking ahead; wearing dark double-breasted coat fastened with one button, light waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; curtain behind; octagonal design, bordered by three lines."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate from: Ryall, H.T. Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen. London : G. Virtue, [1836-46?]., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 616 (leaf numbered '51' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 1836 by the proprietor H.T. Ryall, 3 Euston Sqr., also by J. Fraser, 215 Regent St. and F.G. Moon, Threadneedle St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Right Honble. Henry Lord Viscount Sidmouth [graphic]
7. The Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan [graphic]
- Creator:
- Turner, Charles, 1774-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1825]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Half-length portrait of English dramatist and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, facing left and "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1612); half-length directed to and facing the left, looking slightly to the front, his coat fastened by two buttons; curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted as frontispiece (opposite title page) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- Published July 1, 1825, by Messrs. Longman & Co., Paternoster Row
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians and Dramatists
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan [graphic]