George Aust papers concerning the Secret Service, 1794-1800
Container / Volume:
Folder 2
Image Count:
19
Abstract:
This collection, with its painstaking accounts and administrative receipts, shows the daily complexities of managing a secret service.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --History --George III, 1760-1820
Subject (Name):
Aust, George, 1749-1829, Great Britain. Foreign Office --Officials and employees, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Thomas Coutts & Co, and Wickham, William, 1761-1840
Subject (Topic):
Ciphers, Cryptography --Great Britain, and Intelligence service --Great Britain
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentifed., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., Possibly a depiction of one of the tiles with arms, from the catherdral at Gloucester, that was in the floor of the China Room at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill house., and Mounted on page 25 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
SH Contents B87 no. 1 Framed, shelved in Object Room A:B
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A view of Richmond Hill, near Twickenham
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned., Formerly hung on the staircase at Strawberry Hill. See Description of Strawberry Hill, vol. ii, p. 420., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Richmond Hill (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)
Watercolor in an oval design depicting the British admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, 1731-1804. Duncan is portrayed in the standard naval dress uniform of an embroidered blue coat with white facings, gold tassles at the shoulder, and a medal pinned at his breast. Duncan wears a stern expression on his mature wrinkled face framed by curly white hair
Alternative Title:
Admiral Adam Duncan
Description:
Title from grapite pencil inscription below image., General note., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Duncan of Camperdown, Adam Duncan, Viscount, 1731-1804,
Volume 1, page 15. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Inveniam viam avt faciam and Inveniam viam aut faciam
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Motto in upper left portion of image: Inveniam viam avt faciam., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 15 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 146 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wash drawing depicting one of the ossuaria kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill. The sides of the ossuarium are decorated with images of rams' heads and a hunting scene involving a lion running from men with bows and arrows; the cover is topped with a perched eagle
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 90 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Volume 1, page 124. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of a white Gothic-style tower framed by trees, with the edge of a separate structure with arched windows and a crenellated roof visible on the left. A pedestal is seen on the lawn to the right. Several groups of people walk on the path leading to the tower; a dog bounds on the path in the foreground
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower left corner of image., Date of production based on the inclusion in the same volume of other drawings by Shepherd that depict the temporary building for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842., and Bound in as page 124 in volume 1 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.