A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London : Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785).
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Also bound in are three prints described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum; these are cataloged separately., and Original boards with new back but old hand-lettered label, uncut. With Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP2 later state) on half-title page. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron. Press-mark R.10, but apparently moved from the Round Tower to the Library in the Offices. Not in Walpole's Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of the Earl of Orford (1813-94), imitated from Horace Walpole's, and bookplate of John A. Spoor. Also with bookplate "AHA".
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
Description:
Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
Description:
Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Half length portrait of Henry Angelo as a fencer, directed towards the right, facing and looking towards the left, with long hair and a double-breasted fencing jacket (formerly misidentified as a Guernsay jacket). He holds a foil in his right hand
Description:
Title from caption below image., After a portrait by Mather Brown in the National Portrait Gallery, London, oil on canvas, NPG 5310?, Questionable date of publication from ms. annotation preceding imprint: Oct. 1st, 1791., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge., and Mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by B.F. Scott, No. 18 Broad Court, Long Acre
"Benn's Club; group portrait of six aldermen around table in club, all seen seated whole-length and mostly to front, waiter standing at left polishing glass; l-r, Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Sir Henry Marshall, Edmond Ironside, Robert Alsop, Benn and John Blashford, a letter on the floor at his feet addressed to him at 'Bowcombe in the Isle of Wight', franked by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1231., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and Sitters' names in ms. beneath image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street & John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhil
"Portrait of Anne Clifford, Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery; aged 81; half length, to left, veil over head; coats of arms at top corners; with false title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from the volume in which the print was published., Plate from: Pennant, T. A tour in Scotland: MDCCLXXII. Part II. London : Printed for Benj. White, 1776., Numbered "XLIV" in upper left corner and "358" in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 118 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., and Title modified in brown ink by Horace Walpole, with "Dorset and Pembroke, only daughter of the Earl of" written in the space between first and second lines of text below image.
Publisher:
Benjamin White
Subject (Name):
Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of, 1590-1676,
"Portrait, standing, three-quarter length, directed to left, facing and looking to front, his right hand on belt, wearing cloak and cap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Arutin George was an Armenian merchant who came to England during the reign of Queen Anne. See British Museum catalogue., Title engraved below image., and Annotation in ink in a contemporary hand on verso: 2 Anne.
Publisher:
Sold by I. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square
Full length portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram who began his career in shipping and trading, both in America and England, gaining a wide knowledge of colonial affairs. Later became projector of the Foundling Hospital, shown sitting, directed, facing and looking to the left, wearing open coat over vest and cravat, holding gloves in his left hand and a medal in his right hand, hat on the floor by his right foot; surrounded by emblems representing his mercatilist and philanthropic activities, including a scroll lettered "The Royal Charter" and a globe on the right; column and view of the sea and boats behind
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Copy., and On page 107 in volume 2.
Full length portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram who began his career in shipping and trading, both in America and England, gaining a wide knowledge of colonial affairs. Later became projector of the Foundling Hospital, shown sitting, directed, facing and looking to the left, wearing open coat over vest and cravat, holding gloves in his left hand and a medal in his right hand, hat on the floor by his right foot; surrounded by emblems representing his mercatilist and philanthropic activities, including a scroll lettered "The Royal Charter" and a globe on the right; column and view of the sea and boats behind
Alternative Title:
Captain Thomas Coram
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker and imprint from later state., Later state with lettering below the image with title, continuing "who after 17 years unwearied application, obtained the Charter of the Foundling Hospital, / To the Governors & Guardians of the Hospital, this Print is humbly dedicated / by their obedient humble Servt / R. Cribb", production and publication details: "W. Hogarth Pinxt" "London, Published Dec. 1. 1796, by R. Cribb No 288 Holborn" and "W. Nutter sculpt"., Sheet trimmed to plate mark except at bottom., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at bottom of print: Not in Nichols's book. Proof impression., and On page 222 in volume 3.