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1. A courtesan & friseur [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [9 August 1772?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 72 771 D37 v.4 plate 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- "Two whole length figures. A woman (left) walks away from the man but looks round over her left shoulder. She wears a high conical cap trimmed with lace and ribbons, a hooded cloak over a voluminous skirt ornately embroidered at the hem. The man in profile to the left walks after her. His left hand holds a tasselled cane which rests on his shoulder, his right is thrust under his waistcoat. He is fashionably dressed with a laced hat, and his coat appears to have epaulettes."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Courtesan and friseur
- Description:
- Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "V. 4" in upper left corner and "5" in upper right corner., Suckling; June 1956; Acquisitions no.: 956-6-1-49., and Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- Pub'd. accorg. to act August 9th by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Darly, M.
- Subject (Topic):
- Barbers, Clothing & dress -- England -- 1770-1780, Courtesans, and Dandies -- British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A courtesan & friseur [graphic].
2. A plan of Mr. Pope's garden, as it was left at his death: with a plan and perspective view of the grotto. All taken by J. Serle, his gardener. With an account of all the gems, materials, spars, and ores of which it is composed, and from whom and whence they were sent. To which is added, A character of all his writings.
- Creator:
- Serle, John.
- Published / Created:
- 1745.
- Call Number:
- 762 P748
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- Includes: Pope's Verses on a grotto: p. 12; 'The cave of Pope: a prophecy' by R. Dodsley: p. 19-20; 'A character of Mr. Pope's writings' [in verse; by William Thompson]: p. 21-29., Number [8] in volume labelled: Poems & odes., and Signatures: 1 l. unsigned, B-D⁴, 1 l. unsigned.
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Dodsley, and sold by M. Cooper
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Garden structures--England--London--Early works to 1800. and Gardens--England--London--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A plan of Mr. Pope's garden, as it was left at his death: with a plan and perspective view of the grotto. All taken by J. Serle, his gardener. With an account of all the gems, materials, spars, and ores of which it is composed, and from whom and whence they were sent. To which is added, A character of all his writings.
3. Bad news [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [ 26 November 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.11.26.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- A miserable, angry-looking tailor stands in the middle of his dilapidated workshop. His wig is turned sideways on his head, his empty pockets turned wrong side out, and his stockings undone. Between his feet on the floor lies a large lottery ticket signed "Blank." The tools of his trade are scattered on the workbench and on the floor, including his trade guild tankard. On the wall to the right hangs an advertisement referring to the bubble lottery of 1698, on the left a broadside ridiculing Mongolfier's hot air balloon ascent earlier in the year. Below it lies a credit note from a baker.
- Description:
- First of two images etched on the same plate and published as one print., Imperfect: original print includes two images. Publication line trimmed., Mounted to 29 x 19 cm., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Possibly after Ramberg's painting, Bad news., Publication information from a copy in the Peel Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title from caption etched above image.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Novr. 26, 1783, by Jno. Russell, Bond Street, Bath
- Subject (Name):
- Ramberg, Johann Heinrich, 1763-1840
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Lotteries, Poverty -- England -- 18th century, Tailor shops, and Tailors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bad news [graphic].
4. Bianca Capello, a Venetian lady, mistress and afterwards second wife to Francis the First, Great Duke ... [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [17--?]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents Un58 no. 16 Box 120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- 1842, May 14, Day 18, Lot 110 bt Earl of Derby, £5.5.0; 1954 July 2, Christie's, Derby Sale, Lot 207 to Agnew & Sons for W.S. Lewis September 1954. The lot of six drawings also included a Flemish drawing of a Female Saint worshipping a crucifix., Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin., Note on verso continues: " ... she married first a Florentine, for wch. his father disenherited him, and being reduced, she maintained herself and husband by washing linnen ...", One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bianca, Grand-Duchess, consort of Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1548-1587, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Walpole Horace, 1717-1797
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bianca Capello, a Venetian lady, mistress and afterwards second wife to Francis the First, Great Duke ... [art original].
5. Bianca Capello, a Venetian lady, mistress and afterwards second wife to Francis the First, Great Duke ... [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [17--?]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents Un58 no. 16 Box 120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- 1842, May 14, Day 18, Lot 110 bt Earl of Derby, £5.5.0; 1954 July 2, Christie's, Derby Sale, Lot 207 to Agnew & Sons for W.S. Lewis September 1954. The lot of six drawings also included a Flemish drawing of a Female Saint worshipping a crucifix., Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin., Note on verso continues: " ... she married first a Florentine, for wch. his father disenherited him, and being reduced, she maintained herself and husband by washing linnen ...", One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bianca, Grand-Duchess, consort of Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1548-1587, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Walpole Horace, 1717-1797
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bianca Capello, a Venetian lady, mistress and afterwards second wife to Francis the First, Great Duke ... [art original].
6. Billingsgate eloquence [graphic] / A.S. inv.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Call Number:
- 795.01.06.01.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- "A lean and elderly virago (three-quarter length) with straggling hair, wearing a handkerchief which scarcely covers her breast, stands in profile to the left, glaring fiercely. Her arms are bare to the elbow; she holds her thumb and second finger together, her left hand is on her hip. Etched below her are her words: "What do you know, you B-? -every one knows I am a - & a -, and setting that aside who can say black to my eye?" Her profile is that of Lady Cecilia Johnston as caricatured by Gillray. She had a bitter tongue ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- By Gillray using pseudonym 'A.S.' See British Museum catalogue., One of a set of eight satirical portraits, each issued separately., Three lines of text below image: What do you know, you B-? Every one knows I am a - & a -, and setting that aside who can say black to my eye?, and Title etched above image.
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia,--Lady,--1727-1817--Caricatures and cartoons., and Riviere & Son Binding.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Billingsgate eloquence [graphic] / A.S. inv.
7. Bob's the whole [graphic] / E. Cotin in. sc.
- Creator:
- Cotin, E.
- Published / Created:
- [1741]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C2 738
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-33., 'Price 1 shilling'--Below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and left side., Temporary local subject terms: Cession of Gibraltar -- Cession of Port Mahon -- Conventions: Pardo, 1739 -- Electorates: German electorates -- Electorate of Hanover -- Cuba: Fort St. Iago -- Cumberland Harbor -- Fairs: Horn Fair -- Yarmough fish -- Hungary -- France -- Bavaria -- Slogans: wooden shoes -- Hats: King's hat -- Parodies: parody on Athanasian Creed., Ten lines of text in rebus, followed by two columns of further text in rebus, below image: Whosoever will [be] rich or [high] be [for] [all] things ..., The following words within the text are represented by a rebus: be by an image of a bee, high by an image of a throne, for by number 4, all by an awl., Title engraved at top of design, within the scroll surrounding the images., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
- Publisher:
- Sold by G. Bickha[m] at the Blackmoor's Head, Exeter Exchange
- Subject (Name):
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
- Subject (Topic):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Yarmouth, Amelie Sophia de Walmoden, Countess of, 1706-1765
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bob's the whole [graphic] / E. Cotin in. sc.
8. Christina of Lorrain, Great Duchess of Tuscany [art original] : wife of Ferdinand the Great, 3d. Gr. Duke.
- Published / Created:
- [17--?]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents Un58 no. 15 Box 120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Alternative Title:
- Christina of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany and Christine of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany
- Description:
- 1842, May 14, Day 18, Lot 110 bt Earl of Derby, £5.5.0; 1954 July 2, Christie's, Derby Sale, Lot 207 to Agnew & Sons for W.S. Lewis September 1954. The lot of six drawings also included a Flemish drawing of a Female Saint worshipping a crucifix., Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin., One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christine, of Lorraine, Grand Duchess, consort of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1565-1636, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Walpole Horace, 1717-1797
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Christina of Lorrain, Great Duchess of Tuscany [art original] : wife of Ferdinand the Great, 3d. Gr. Duke.
9. Christina of Lorrain, Great Duchess of Tuscany [art original] : wife of Ferdinand the Great, 3d. Gr. Duke.
- Published / Created:
- [17--?]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents Un58 no. 15 Box 120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Alternative Title:
- Christina of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany and Christine of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany
- Description:
- 1842, May 14, Day 18, Lot 110 bt Earl of Derby, £5.5.0; 1954 July 2, Christie's, Derby Sale, Lot 207 to Agnew & Sons for W.S. Lewis September 1954. The lot of six drawings also included a Flemish drawing of a Female Saint worshipping a crucifix., Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin., One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christine, of Lorraine, Grand Duchess, consort of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1565-1636, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Walpole Horace, 1717-1797
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Christina of Lorrain, Great Duchess of Tuscany [art original] : wife of Ferdinand the Great, 3d. Gr. Duke.