Title below each image., Top print is ca. 1720. Bottom print is 18th century. Dates supplied by curator., Place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Alchemy, Medicines, Scientific equipment, Purses, Rich people, Coal, Dwarfs, Medicine shows, and Physicians
A soldier with an elongated nose appears to plead with or coax a woman wearing a stole, feathers in her hair, and a crucifix on a chain
Description:
Title from item., Signed in ink lower left: G.C., George Cruikshank, English graphic artist, 1792-1878., and For further information consult library staff.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data form local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Gondola. A stage coach running to and from St. Germains (Versailles, &c.) and Paris, -carrying only inside passengers, -and little or no luggage ..., Second sheet attached to print 6 x 17 cm., and Watermark: C Ansell.
Elevation of flank of seven bays of pointed arches divided by thin buttresses, and elevation of end. This is probably the design for the cloister linking Bateman's house to this Gothic Octagon designed by Muntz. In a letter written to George Montagu on 24 September 1762, Horace Walpole refers to Bentley's design for Bateman's cloister; also associated with Walpole's Strawberry Hill. See Harris
Alternative Title:
Gothic cloister designed by Mr. Bentley
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on verso., Signed by the artist in the lower right corner below design., Date based on correspondence between Montague and Walpole in which this design is discussed., and Watermark: [...] C. Blauw.
Subject (Name):
Bateman, Richard, approximately 1705-1773, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. The woman (left) wears a pink dress and holds a heart-shaped pruse. She rests her arm on the shoulders of the man as he wraps his arm around her waist
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Mounted on paper the verso of which shows a map of the estate, Ballygorn, of John Henry Keogh, Esq., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
Drawings W516 no. 1 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 6
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Bard
Description:
Title inscribed by artist on verso: Gray's Bard., Signed by the artist in lower right: BW., Signed by the artist on the verso: Benjm. West., Benjamin West (1738-1820) was a British portrait painter. He was elected to the Royal Academy in ..., and Catalog of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library: no. 119. For further information, consult library staff.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Grenadiers of the Royal Guard. A fine body of pick't men and containing "Many a good tall fellow" ..., Second sheet attached to print 8 x 17 cm., and Watermark: C Ansell 1818.
One of three designs for a Chinese garden buildling; this one showing the floor plan. None of the designs were executed
Description:
Title inscribed below design., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on lower half of leaf 23 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].