- Published / Created:
- 1755.
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 2 Copy 11
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 100. Journey into England.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of the ruins, probably St. Austin's Abbey in Canterbury. A man, a woman, and a child are seen in the foreground
- Alternative Title:
- View of St. Austin's Monastery
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date written after title, in a different hand., and Mounted opposite page 100 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Hentzner, P. A journey into England. Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1757.
- Subject (Topic):
- Ruins
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view of St. Austin's Monastary [art original].
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- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.33
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Adriaen van Diest (1655-1704), born in The Hague, immigrated to England when he was 17 and remained there, active as a landscape painter of views of England in the western parts landscapes, chiefly in the Italian manner
- Description:
- Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 129., Title from item., Signed in ink, lower right: ob. 1704 Aeta '49. G.V., Inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower right below monogram: poss. Mr. Dahl pict., Inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower left: se ipse pinx., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Diest, Adriaen van, 1655-1704,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Dutch
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Adrian Van-Diest [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.23
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of John van Belcamp (ca. 1610-1653), Dutch born artist who was employed in England under Abraham Van der Doort (d. 1640) as a copier of the King's paintings in the court of Charles I.
- Description:
- Title from inscription below image., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in :Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 101., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Belcamp, Jan van, ca. 1610-1653,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Dutch
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Belcom paint [art original]
- Published / Created:
- [1742]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 743 H432 Box 6 Folder 23 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Half-length, oval portrait of William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester and first Headmaster of Eton, looking slightly left and wearing the mitre and robes of his office; within a decorative border and frame ending with a coat of arms. The two drawings were created in preparation for the engraved portrait print engraved by Jacobus Houbraken and published by John & Paul Knapton in 1742
- Alternative Title:
- William Waynfleet Bishop of Winchester
- Description:
- Title from inscription on verso of drawing., Title from inscription on mount under the drawing, in the same hand: Wm. Wainfleet Bishop of Winchester., Also written on the mount under the drawing in block lettering and scored through: The Old Bishop., Portrait is unsigned, but the mount is decorated with a border in ink and wash and signed: H. Gravelot inv. et delin., Counter watermark in center of sheet used as the mount: IV., Local card catalog gives unverified attribution: after Holbein?, and One of ten watercolor portraits and other drawings included in George Vertue's set of engravings: The heads of the most illustrious persons of Great Britain (London : John and Paul Knapton). See all catalog records by searching call number: LWL Folio 724 743 H432 (Oversize).
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Waynflete, William, 1395?-1486,
- Subject (Topic):
- Bishops
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bishop Wainfleet [art original].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1789]
- Call Number:
- Drawings R79 no. 14 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 70
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Prince of Wales ..., sword in hand, gallantly protects Britannia against the attack of three conspirators: Pitt raises a headsman's axe in both hands; Grafton, holding a conspirator's lantern, is about to strike her with a dagger; Richmond ... fires a musket, resting one knee on a cannon. The Prince wears a coronet with three ostrich feathers, he holds out his shield behind Britannia, who cowers towards him in terror."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print for which this is the original drawing
- Description:
- Titled by the artist in brown ink below image., Attributed to Rowlandson., Original drawing for a print of the same title published by H. Holland on 7 February 1789. Cf. No. 7503 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 247.
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Britannia's support of the conspirators defeated [art original].
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1785]
- Call Number:
- Drawings B87 no. 26 Box D300
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Five men accompanied by two dogs leisurly sit around a small table in a tavern smoking long-stemmed tobacco pipes and drinking while one of their number squeezes juice and pulp from a fruit into a large punch bowl resting on the table
- Description:
- Title and artist's signature inscribed in the artist's hand below image. and Sheet trimmed to oval shape.
- Subject (Topic):
- Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, Peg legs, Tobacco pipes, Leisure, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Club night [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.22
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Federico Zuccaro (ca. 1540-1609), Italian born painter, draughtsman and writer, brother of Taddeo Zuccaro
- Description:
- Title from inscription below image., Inscription in ink, lower right: in poses[n] Mr. T. Gibson paint., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Zucchero in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 1, opp. p. 140., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Zuccaro, Federico, approximately 1540-1609,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Italian
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Frederico Zucchero pictor obiit 1699 aeta: 66. [art original]
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of part of the wall decoration, possibly a frieze or wallpaper, of the Round Tower at Strawberry Hill. An image of a cherub placing a vase upon a pedestal is present within an oval at the bottom of the design
- Description:
- Title from note on verso in an unidentified hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., and Formerly laid in at page 103 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Friezes (Ornamental bands), Wallpapers, and Putti
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > From Strawberry Hill, the tower [art original].
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- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 23a Box 2
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On recto: One of three designs by Bentley for a Chinese buidling. This sketch shows the garden in front the proposed Chinese building. In the end of the designs were executed. On verso: a small pen sketch of a roof line
- Description:
- Title inscribed below design., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on top half of leaf 23 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1760].
- Subject (Name):
- Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774.
- Subject (Topic):
- Pagodas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Front to the flower-garden, of the Chinese building, for Mr. Fox at Holland-House [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [17--?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 7 Box D155
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Wash drawing depicting a portrait of British naval officer George Bridges Rodney whom is presented wearing a naval officer's dress uniform
- Description:
- Title from caption inscribed within image., Copy of a portrait by Joshua Reynolds., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > George Bridges Rodney, Esqr [art original].