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1. [Arms with rainbow and caterpillars] [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].
2. [Bookplate] [art original].
- Creator:
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1810]
- Call Number:
- 33 4 Copy 13
- Collection Title:
- Page g. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two images, the bottom of which is a saracen's head in profile above a banner with the Walpole motto "Fari quae sentiat". Above, an armorial shield surmounted by the head of a black man with a kerchief around his head and decorated with flags and a cannon protrude from its sides; branches extend outward from the pile of dirt at the base of the shield, on which cannon balls and a drum sit
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to Thomas Kirgate from note in pencil on mounting page: "Evidently drawn by his printer Jos.[?] Kirgate.", Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 'g' in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookplates and Coats of arms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Bookplate] [art original].