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- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 174. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., and Mounted on page 174 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A very stout lady] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 65. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of Chichester Cross, a 15th-century market cross that stands in the center of the city of Chichester
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., Scale within a banner drawn in upper left corner., Portions of the drawing were done on smaller pieces of paper integrated into the larger sheet; the image of the clock is drawn on a sheet 65 x 27 mm that is pasted onto the larger sheet at the center of the composition, while the image of the top of the structure is drawn on a sheet 72 x 32 mm that is pasted into an area at the top of the composition where the larger sheet has been cut away., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 65 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Chichester (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, structures, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Chichester Cross] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1842]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, opposite page 178. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of the finely carved chair, the back ornamented with grotesque heads and the center bearing the date 1601, that was owned by Horace Walpole and sold in lot 117 on the seventeenth day of the 1842 Strawberry Hill Sale
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., At top of sheet is a small (30 x 50 mm) pen and ink drawing showing the details of the coat of arms carved into the backrest of the chair., and Bound in opposite page 178 in volume 2 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Chairs and Coats of arms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Elizabethan arm chair] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1806]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 36 Box 4
- Collection Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of a young woman reading a book outside under a tree; wearing a long-sleeved dress, hair down and partially covered; head propped up on her left arm; an hourglass on a pedestal beside her, a bird on a tree branch in the background; a church visible in the distance
- Description:
- Title from local catalog card., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 109 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Girl reading] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 175. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Titles devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Two drawings on one sheet, recto and verso. Left edge of sheet is trimmed along profile of the depicted head on recto; sheet is attached to page along right edge only, allowing it to be flipped over to reveal the drawing on verso., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., and Mounted on page 175 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Head of a woman in profile] [Older head]. [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 19. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., A grid has been added in pencil, presumably to assist with proportions while copying. Fourteen small sketches in ink, representing details within the image, are present in the margins., and Mounted on page 19 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547,
- Subject (Topic):
- Kings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Henry VIII] [art original].
- Creator:
- Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1767]
- Call Number:
- Drawings G877 no. 1 Box D205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Interior of a kitchen showing servants at leisure: a stout woman dances with a black man in the centre accompanied by a man with a wooden leg who sits playing a violin on the left; watched by others on the right, a young woman standing on a chair and supported by a young man, while a seated man wearing a tricorn smiles and points at her and an elderly woman stands with her arms folded under her apron, a dog at her heels; two posters pasted on the wall behind, shelves, bellows and other kitchen implements in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of the same design
- Description:
- Title from a copy published by Carington Bowles, July 17th, 1770., Unsigned; attributed to Francis Grose., and Date of production based on exhibition history; this drawing was exhibited at the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1767.
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Interiors, Kitchens, Servants, Peg legs, Violins, Bellows, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [High life below stairs] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 185. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., Mounted below on the same page is a watercolor drawing of nearly the same scene., and Mounted on page 185 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
- Subject (Topic):
- Trees and Fences
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Landscape with trees and fence] [art original].
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1818]
- Call Number:
- Drawings N736 no. 9 Box D141
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Half-length portrait of a man, in profile to the right, playing a horn. On the back, a pencil sketch of the backs of two figures
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to John Nixon., Date based on artist's death date., and Numbered "57" in ink on mount, centered above image.
- Subject (Topic):
- Musicians and Musical instruments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Man playing a horn] [art original].