Manuscript, in a single hand, of twelve letters written during a tour of London and addressed to "dear Elvira." In the letters, the author (Mrs. Percivall or Percival?) describes the social sights of London, including parties and dinners she attends, music she hears, and nobility she sees, including a masquerade at Somerset House where her friend dresses up as an Indian princess; a dinner which the Queen gave to the Ambassador; a military show by soldiers in Hyde Park; and, at the end of the volume, a masquerade ball in which she meets "a very agreeable gentleman." In addition, "being almost smothered with the thick air of London," she and her acquaintances take a trip into the country, where they visit Hatfield and attend a concert of music hosted by Italian marquis, where "there was an eunuch who sang." Throughout, she provides detailed descriptions of paintings, furniture, silverware, food, equipages, and the dress of the nobility
Description:
In English., Title from first page., Leaves are numbered and written on the rectos only, except for pages 6, 8, and 44 which are numbered and written on versos., Binding: half morocco over machine-grain morocco boards., and An unvetted transcript is available in the object file. For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., England., Great Britain., Great Britain, and London
Subject (Name):
Percivall, Mrs.
Subject (Topic):
Amusements, Country homes, Courts and courtiers, Nobility, Social life and customs, and Description and travel
First image, 'Painting after life' shows a skeleton (death) seated before an easel painting a portrait of the obese old man seated opposite and holding a cane. The subject is seated against a blank screen; a portfolio of other works is leaning against the screen. Beside the 'artist' is a box of paints and artist supplies and Second image, 'Death staring shipwrecked sailors in the face!!!', shows a skeleton (right) seated on a rock with his head resting in his hands, elbows on his knees as he stares at two shipwrecked sailors (left) on a beach
Alternative Title:
Death staring shipwrecked sailors in the face!!!
Description:
Each print titled below., Lewis Walpole Library: On the verso: an autograph letter from Ebenezer Gerard in Liverpool to Samuel Taylor Liverpool, dated 1826 February 5, in reference to "Prose by a poet" (by Montgomery James) which he compares to his own efforts since his illness, with the address incorporating watercolor and rebus material., Painting after life referencing Hogarth?, and For further information, consult library staff.
An album of twenty watercolors recording the 1826 journey to England by the Delahaye family of Pierrefitte, France. A family friend, Gaudissard traveled with them from their home near Saint-Denis, carefully recording the sights they saw across the Channel. His drawings include landscapes, cityscapes, and various views, each inscribed with a caption. Scenes of London include a depiction of a typical city street, St. James's Palace from the Pall Mall, the interior of the Tower of London, and the interior of the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Palace. He captured the countryside near Richmond, the seaside at Brighton and the Royal Pavilion there, Windsor Castle and a view of London as seen from Windsor, and Christopher Wren's Monument in London, as seen from Greenwich. Gaudissard shows his pictorial range with a night scene of Brighton and a depiction of a strenuous boat race on the Thames. Among other images are the Duke of Devonshire's menagerie at Chiswick House, only in existence between 1811 and 1836, featuring an elephant and a monkey, and an Anglican priest in the pulpit at Canterbury. Two drawings depict friends at Pierrefitte wave goodbye to the Delahaye carriage as it departs, and then welcoming the family with open arms upon their return home. The album's frontispiece features a classic coach-and-four alighting into the English mist, and at the end a record of the family's departure from Dover, its White Cliffs in the background, aboard an early steamship and Accompanied by a 16-page letter dated 1826, written in French, addressed by Madame L. Delahaye to her friend Alexandrine upon the Delahayes' return from England. The letter recounts the family's journey in great detail from start to finish, and includes several mentions of the lively participation of Gaudissard. Also present is a single leaf, written approximately 1850, describing the genesis of the album and brief biographical sketch of the artist
Alternative Title:
Souvenirs de l'Angleterre
Description:
The caricaturist Michel René Gaudissard (1774-1848) used the pseudonym Godissart de Cari (or G de Cari...). He was called the "French Hogarth" and "the greatest master of French caricature during the early 19th century" (Deberdt). He is principally known for his biting caricatures of the English and their odd habits, especially as seen in his collection of engravings Le Musée grotesque (1816-1820)., In French., Title gold stamped on front cover and from text in the first drawing entitled "Frontispiece.", Bound in contemporary brown sheep, gilt spine and gilt cover borders with title stamped on front: Souvenirs de l'Angleterre. With binder's ticket on inside front cover: Rue de Cléry, no. 7 pres celle Montmatre, Binant, Md. de Papiers, Fournitures de Burcaux de Paris., and For further information, consult library staff.
A group of portrait drawings depicting some of the correspondents included in a French collection of Madame du Deffand's letters. The drawings are inserted throughout both volumes of the printed text, supplementing the engraved portraits and other plates that were either issued with the work or added later
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., All but one of the drawings have the sitter's name added in pencil below, and all but two are signed "ABaudet Bauderval" (with the initial letters forming a monogram). The artist is tentaitvely identified as A. Baudet-Bauderval, a lithographer who was active in France in the mid-19th century; see person record in the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France., Bound in a copy of: Du Deffand, M. Correspondance complète de la marquise du Deffand avec ses amis le président Hénault-Montesquieu-d'Alembert-Voltaire-Horace Walpole ... Paris : H. Plon, 1865., and Extra-illustrated with plates, portraits, drawings.
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, d'Averne, Sophie de Brégis, comtesse, active 1721-1723,, Pont-de-Veyle, 1697-1774,, Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,, Saint-Lambert, Jean-François de, 1716-1803,, Luynes, Marie Brûlart de La Borde, duchesse de, 1684?-1763,, Chaulnes, Anne Josèphe Bonnier de La Mosson, duchesse de, 1718-1787,, Vallière, Anne Julie Françoise de Crussol, duchesse de, 1713-1797,, Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville-Villeroy, duchesse de, 1707-1787,, and Rochefort, Marie Thérèse de Larlan de Kercadio, comtesse de, 1716-1782,