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1. First step in life [art original]
- Creator:
- Gerolimo, D., artist
- Published / Created:
- [late 18th century]
- Call Number:
- LWL Ptg. 176 Framed, shelved in Object Room C:B
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A George III reverse painting on glass. A child stands between his two parents, his mother kneeling on the left and his father swings his watch to entice the child to take his first steps in their fashionable appointed sitting room. Through the open window above the settee can be seen a boat with a sail on a river and a imposing building on the distant shore
- Description:
- Title from item. and For further information, consult library staff.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > First step in life [art original]
2. Flora [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [late 18th century]
- Call Number:
- LWL Ptg. 177 Framed, shelved in Object Room C:B
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Reverse painting on glass. A personification of Flora in a chariot pulled by two cats. In the distance a garden with a folly
- Description:
- Title from item., Artist unidentified., With text below image: Stampa & Steffenoni, 14 Heather Lane, London., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Flora [art original].
3. From the West Indies
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
- Published / Created:
- [early 20th century?]
- Call Number:
- 900.00.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Five passengers sit together on a bench against the side of a ship, all but a small boy, seemingly a mulatto, manifesting misery or resignation. The others (left to right) are a woman shrouded in black except for her chin, a planter in a long coat and broad-brimmed hat, his wife's arm through his. A fat and hideous negress, awkwardly asleep. The deck is level."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Reproduction of an etching by George Cruikshank, after a drawing by Frederick Marryat; Cruikshank's "etched by G.C." signature and Marryat's artist's device (an anchor tilted diagonally) are reproduced and legible beneath the design, as is the original imprint "London, Pubd. June 5th, 1824, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street.", Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, no. 14718., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1140., and Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1248.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Passengers, Decks (Ships), Motion sickness, Hats, and Smoking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > From the West Indies
4. Ideal landscape [art original]
- Creator:
- Knight, Ellis Cornelia, 1757-1837, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1792]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 192. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title and statement of responsibility from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso., Mounted above on the same page is another drawing by the same artist: View of the lake and Temple of Esculapius in Villa Borghese, Rome, 1792., and Mounted on page 192 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
- Subject (Topic):
- Rivers and Stone bridges
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ideal landscape [art original]
5. Scotch worship [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1786?]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, after page xxxvi. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Seven men follow closely behind Samuel Johnson, who has a human head but the body of a bear. Johnson wears a tricorne and a cape and holds a staff in his right hand/paw. The man directly behind Johnson squats down with his nose near the tail of Johnson's bear body; the three men at the back wear academic gowns and hats
- Description:
- Title etched beneath lower left corner of image., Possibly signed in lower right corner using monogrammatic initials., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A reduced copy of a print entitled "Scotch worship of an English idol; his high priest attending", published by Thomas Cornell (active 1780-1792). Cf. The Morgan Library & Museum call number: Peel Vol. 05, no. 273., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 38 x 27 cm., and Bound in after page xxxvi (leaf numbered '39' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
- Subject (Topic):
- Adoration
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Scotch worship [graphic]
6. The eruption of Vesuvius, 1779 [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1779]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 186. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title and date from contemporary note in ink on a separate sheet, mounted below drawing., Unsigned; artist unidentified., and Mounted on page 186 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Vesuvius (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Eruption, 1779, Volcanoes, and Volcanic eruptions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The eruption of Vesuvius, 1779 [art original].
7. To the West Indies [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
- Published / Created:
- [early 20th century?]
- Call Number:
- 900.00.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A section of the deck of a small sailing vessel, seen from outside; cockneyfied passengers, depicted with a sailor's contempt, hang over the rail in misery or walk on deck. The helmsman (left) stands impassively in profile to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Reproduction of an etching by George Cruikshank, after a drawing by Frederick Marryat; Cruikshank's "etched by G.C." signature and Marryat's artist's device (an anchor tilted diagonally) are reproduced and legible beneath the design, as is the original imprint "London, Pubd. June 5th, 1824, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street.", Orignal etching was presumably an early state of a plate more widely published with the title "To Calais." For the state following the title change, which has the same G. Humphrey imprint and lists the same publication date, see no. 14719 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10. The plate retained this latter title when it was reissued in: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., A companion print entitled "From the West Indies" has the same signatures and imprint statement as the original etching; see no. 14718 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 2036., and Cf. Reid, G.W. Descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1249.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Passengers, Decks (Ships), Motion sickness, Hats, and Smoking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > To the West Indies [graphic].
8. To the memory of the Princess Charlotte of Wales
- Published / Created:
- [1817]
- Call Number:
- File 56 C47 817To
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Caption title., Broadside, with three paragraphs of text within thick mourning border and initialed ‘J.W.L.’ at the end. ‘From the Morning Post of Nov. 11th’ printed in lower left. Beneath the title are three lines quoted from Lord Lyttleton's 'To the memory of the same lady, a monody. A.D. 1747.', First line: Even thus in the flower of youth - in the bloom of loveliness - ..., and Laid on to a slightly larger modern sheet. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > To the memory of the Princess Charlotte of Wales
9. [A 'coquet sphinx'] [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1785?]
- Call Number:
- 335 T
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 51 in Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of a sphinx with a woman's head, facing right, sitting on a pedestal
- Description:
- Title devised by curator, taken from the footnote on page 51 of: Walpole, H. Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Strawberry Hill, 1785., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalogue record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted to 18 x 24 cm., and Bound in opposite page 51 of Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ..., in a volume with the binder's title: Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture and Sphinxes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A 'coquet sphinx'] [graphic]