Title and publication date from the British Museum Catalogue., Earlier state of No. 1541 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Mounted to 30 x 20 cm.
Horace Walpole's sketches for the design of the ceiling in his library at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., A drawing in Horace Walpole's hand, with the date 1754 integrated in the design and sent with a letter dated 17 March 1754 to Bentley from his home in London on Arlington Street. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 35, p. 171., and Horace Walpole (1717-1797), author, politician, and patron of the arts.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Houses, Estates, and Libraries (Rooms)
A thin man wearing bedclothes and slippers sits on a stool at right, clenching his fists in obvious pain. Three winged demons harass him, one clutching the back of his collar. A well-dressed doctor, wearing spurred boots and glasses, stands before him on the left; two medicine bottles protrude from his jacket pocket, and he holds a third bottle and glass for the patient. Additional bottles and canisters of medicine sit on the table and floor behind the doctor; a skeleton and skull and crossbones are seen above the table
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Print signed "Robert Cruikshank" in ink in lower left., Date assigned by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Devils & demons -- Taking medicine.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Sick persons, Stools, Medicines, Bottles, Skeletons, and Boots
Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript identification below plate., Publication date inferred from: A. Pond's Collection of early caricatures engraved from the works of Pietro Leone Chezzi and others., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides and at the bottom except for the area of Walpole's identification of subject., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature head and shoulders in profile looking right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Subject and printmaker identified by Horace Walpole on his impression in: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq., and after his designs. [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792], v. 1, page 9 (Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature head and shoulders in profile looking right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Subject and printmaker identified by Horace Walpole on his impression in: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq., and after his designs. [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792], v. 1, page 9 (Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on page 9 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 13.1 x 8.2 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., and Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink below plate mark: Dr. Goldsmith, drawn & etched by Mr. Bunbury.
A drawing of Horace Walpole's coat of arms with other decorative motifs surrounding a formal statement dedicating Daniel Lysons's Environs of London to "The Right Honorable Horace Earl of Orford, Baron Walpole of Houghton".
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Date based on the first publication of the Environs of London in London, 1792.
Title supplied by cataloger., Plate from: Essays on physiognomy ... / by John Caspar Lavater. London, J. Murrray, 1789-1798, v. i, page 154., Temporary local subject terms: Drunkenness -- Walking staves., and Profile portrait of a man's head by Thornthwaite on verso.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 3d Jany. 1783
Call Number:
783.01.03.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A smiling corpulent gentleman with the star of the Garter on his left breast walks to the left holding a tasselled walking stick under his right arm. Identified in pencil beneath the plate as "D. Portland."
Description:
Title devised by cataloger, and Watermark: T W 1795.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809.