Pen and black ink architectural drawing of an elevation of a gothic room featuring columns, profiles of cornice molding, a detail of a fleur-de-lis or Strasburg lily, and a single window with intersecting lattice work
Alternative Title:
Elevation of a gothic room of three bays by two, with gothic ornaments and cornices
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and One of four drawings in a folder.
Subject (Topic):
Quatrefoils, Cornices, Architectural decorations & ornaments, Fleur-de-lis, and Floor plans
Ink and wash architectural drawing of an elevation of a room with a gothic chimneypiece that includes an ornate mirror with cartouche frame over the mantel. Copious notes in pencil are dispersed throughout the plan and include construction materials and corrections
Alternative Title:
Interior elevation and plan of a room with gothic chimneypiece surrounded by a mirror
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and One of four drawings in a folder.
Subject (Topic):
Chimneypieces, Cornices, Architectural mirrors, and Floor plans
Pen and ink drawing of five heads in profile. From left to right in two rows: A woman with soft features wearing a scarf; an eccentric middle-aged man with snub nose and mouth agape; an elderly man wearing a cap and holding a long-stemmed tobacco pipe between clenched lips; an elderly man with bushy brow and elongated tubular nose; and an elderly man with sunken chin and disheveled hair
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
A full-length caricature of a man in profile walking to the left with a folded umbrella held in the crook of his arm. Behind in on the right, a small figure
Description:
Title, date, and artist attribution suggested by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
Scene showing the actor and dramatist Samuel Foote in the role of Fondlewife, a character in William Congreve's comedy "The Old Bachelor". Foote wears a long unfastened, deep-cuffed coat over a waistcoat, breeches tied at the knee, and a tassled scarf knotted at his neck. He holds a tall walking stick in his right hand
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777, and Congreve, William, 1670-1729.
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., Two columns of verse below image: A fawning flatterer D. J. Thou see'st not, what thou see'st, then doe not say ..., and Watermark.
Ink and pencil copy of an eighteenth-century engraved portrait of John Watson, Church of England clergyman and antiquary. Watson is drawn half-length directed to the right, with his head almost in profile, right hand on hip, left holding a scroll in front of him with his elbow propped on an unseen ledge; wearing dark clerical robes with waistband, and white bell-bottomed wig. A numbered .5 cm grid is penciled over the ink drawing
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., A copy of a 1780 engraved portrait by James Basire after Daniel Stringer., and For further information, consult library staff.
A sketch by Bentley for Thomas Gray's Ode on the destruction of the Welsh bards: a landscape with figures on horseback and the bard with attendants on a cliff on the upper left. On the verso, lower edge, a sketch of a head with a helmet in grey wash with swatch of wash background
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date and attribution based on other drawings for the publication., With watermark on top portion of sheet: L.V. Gerrevink., Horace Walpole's ms. note on mount below image on leaf 11 referring to this and the image above on leaf 12: This and the two following are sketches for Mr. Gray's Ode on the destruction of the Welsh bards., and Formerly mounted on bottom half of leaf 12 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].