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- Creator:
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 D18 828
- Image Count:
- 57
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Two scrapbooks containing a collection of mostly 18th century engravings and etchings, some of which are purported to have belonged to Horace Walpole, organized thematically. With four original drawings, including a watercolor and wash drawing of the Neapolitan painter Luca Jordano signed by J.B. Catenaro, an unsigned portrait in red crayon of Cornelius Jansen, a pencil portrait of an unknown woman, and another small pencil drawing of a landscape. The first volume contains etchings and engravings of English villages and rural scenes including the farm house and printing house at Strawberry Hill and two vignettes of Strawberry Hill; topographical scenes in Surrey and Twickenham; etchings of Roman scenes; portraits of eminent historical and contemporary political figures and The second volume begins with a series of 192 small French engravings of women, which document the hair styles and hat fashions in the 17th and 18th centuries, all engraved by Dupin or Desrais. A second series of the 48 engravings from Wenceslaus Hollar's Theatrum mulierum depict the costumes of 17th century women (mostly) in Europe. These prints are followed by 29 small engravings by C. Heath of prominent British politicians and writers of the 18th century. The final pages include several portraits of contemporary British and French figures as well as the plates drawn and engraved by Henry Moses for A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume published in London by E. and C. M'Lean in 1823
- Description:
- In English and French. and Recovered in cloth with marble boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe, Great Britain, Europe., Great Britain., and England
- Subject (Name):
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705, and Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661.
- Subject (Topic):
- Costume, History, Hairstyles, Authors, English, Politicians, Fashion, Clothing and dress, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].
- Creator:
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 D18 828
- Image Count:
- 40
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Two scrapbooks containing a collection of mostly 18th century engravings and etchings, some of which are purported to have belonged to Horace Walpole, organized thematically. With four original drawings, including a watercolor and wash drawing of the Neapolitan painter Luca Jordano signed by J.B. Catenaro, an unsigned portrait in red crayon of Cornelius Jansen, a pencil portrait of an unknown woman, and another small pencil drawing of a landscape. The first volume contains etchings and engravings of English villages and rural scenes including the farm house and printing house at Strawberry Hill and two vignettes of Strawberry Hill; topographical scenes in Surrey and Twickenham; etchings of Roman scenes; portraits of eminent historical and contemporary political figures and The second volume begins with a series of 192 small French engravings of women, which document the hair styles and hat fashions in the 17th and 18th centuries, all engraved by Dupin or Desrais. A second series of the 48 engravings from Wenceslaus Hollar's Theatrum mulierum depict the costumes of 17th century women (mostly) in Europe. These prints are followed by 29 small engravings by C. Heath of prominent British politicians and writers of the 18th century. The final pages include several portraits of contemporary British and French figures as well as the plates drawn and engraved by Henry Moses for A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume published in London by E. and C. M'Lean in 1823
- Description:
- In English and French. and Recovered in cloth with marble boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe, Great Britain, Europe., Great Britain., and England
- Subject (Name):
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705, and Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661.
- Subject (Topic):
- Costume, History, Hairstyles, Authors, English, Politicians, Fashion, Clothing and dress, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].
- Creator:
- Percy, René de, 1756-1835
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 39-40 Box 4
- Collection Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript poem, in an unidentified hand, consisiting of eight lines. "Under the Earth / Lies the skin / under the Skin / The Body / Of a Psyche Bitch / Wife of a Cupid Dog. / She lived very mild / And died with Child." Above the poem, in the upper left corner of the sheet, is written "Vive" in the same hand
- Description:
- In English., Title from first two lines of the poem., Attributed to René de Percy based on manuscript note in a different hand below poem: By [the] Abbé́ Percy échantillon of English., Date based on the death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this poem was found., Formerly laid in at page 120 of 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.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Under the earth lies the skin ..., not after 1806