- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1819?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings C889 no. 6 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A shield with four quarterings: first quarter contains a pair of boxing gloves; the second quarter is drawn showing a man uncorking a bottle. The third and fourth quarters show different moments in a fight. Above the shield is a clenched hand surrounded by laurels, with two "Bottle-holders" supporting either side
- Description:
- Image was used as the basis for a print published by George Humphrey in 1819: The Boxer's arms., See Catalogue of political and personal satires, v. 9, 13395., George Cruikshank, English graphic artist, 1792-1878., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Boxing and Coats of arms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The boxers arms [art original].
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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1819.
- Call Number:
- Drawings C889 no. 5 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satirical coat of arms for the "Dandy." The shield is a dandy's tail-coat, supported by two monkey's dressed in clothes. The crest is a stay and a top hat. Underneath the shield, are written the words "Dandi, Dando, Dandum" below which a puppy is suspended
- Description:
- Title inscribed below image., Inscription in ink in image: Coat of Arms. Azure. The Sexes impaled improper between two Butterflies - Two flances; on the dexter flanch three pair of Stays, argent, the sinister flanch charged with Rouge Pomat & smellg bottle, On the Canton, Dexter a frill rampant in the sinister Canton a false collar rampant - small cloaths passive in pile supported by pins - Supporters- Two Monkies - proper - Crest, a pr of Stays full padded - supporting a Cravat & Collar Rampant proper, holding a blockhead argent & gules, wingerd with asses ears proper the whole under cover of a Sable Bever., Basis for print published as: The dandies coat of arms, See British Museum Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, vol. 9, 13394., George Cruikshank, English graphic artist, 1792-1878., For further information, consult library staff., and Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. 15, p. 143.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, and Coats of arms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The dandies coat of arms [art original].
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1824]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of arms and a crest, likely from one of the seals that were kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 158 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Coats of arms, and Seals (Insignia)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Arms and crest] [art original].
- Creator:
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1810]
- Call Number:
- 33 4 Copy 16
- Collection Title:
- Page 42. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Sketch of an armorial shield with three caterpillars, two at the top and one at the bottom. Running horizontally across the middle of the shield is a band with a human-faced sun at its center. To the right of the upper caterpillars is written "Catterpillars"; to the right of the band is written "Rainbow".
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to Thomas Kirgate from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Drawn in lower left corner of page 42 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
- Subject (Topic):
- Coats of arms and Caterpillars
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Arms with rainbow and caterpillars] [art original].