Mounted on 34 leaves, a collection of 197 hand-written notes addressed to "the door keeper of the House of Lords" or specifically to Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, requesting that the bearer of the ticket or the person named be admitted to the House of Lords in August 1820 for the trial of Queen Caroline, all signed and with wax seals. The collector has mounted on some of the tickets cropped portraits from prints, some trimmed from a mezzotint by John Charles Bromley published in 1832 after the painting of the trial by Sir George Hayter, View of the House of Peers During the Trial of Queen Caroline 1820 (now in the National Portrait Gallery, London). Other portraits have been trimmed from an engraving by John Murray and John Porter also after the same Hayter painting. Still other portraits have been trimmed from the engraving "View of the interior of the House of Lords, during the important investigation in 1820" after the painting by J. Stephanoff and engraved by John George Murray. The collection also includes later tickets for admission to the House of Lords in October and November 1822 and on the final leaf, a collection of autographs of other persons associated with the trial of Queen Caroline, such as Thomas Denman, the Lord Chief Justice or William Vizard, Solicitor to the Queen and Also mounted on the sheets are nine subscription forms for various prints published by R. Bowyer, with the signatures of many of the persons associated with the trial of Queen Caroline. Some of the subscription cards have been annotated to indicate a request for a print other than the one indicated on the form. All of this suggesting that the creator of this collection was associated with Robert Bowyer’s business as they had access to the subscription tickets
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger., The subscription ticket for "View of the interior of the House of Lords during the trial" signed by "Stafford" with two trimmed portraits., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bowyer, Robert, 1758-1834., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.
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. and Also bound in are three prints described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum; these are cataloged separately.
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.
"Portrait of Queen Caroline wearing hat; profile, head and shoulders to left; with border of acorns and oak leaves and other tree branch leaves."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., After a portrait by Thomas Charles Wageman. For another engraving after the same portrait, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.1513. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 351, no. 23., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1997,0928.5., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,
Volume 1, page 1. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after a drawing by Lawrence; bust-length to front, head turned in three-quarter profile to look right, wearing a short wig curled at the sides."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image, within engraved border., Attribution to William Evans (as opposed to the stated "T. Evans") and date of publication from the signature "Wm. Evans sculpt. 1797" on proof state. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Portraits W218 no. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 1 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.
A head and shoulders profile portrait of Miami chief Pacanne, holding a tomahawk across his chest, with bracelets on his upper arms and jewellery in his ears, nose and across the crown of his head
Description:
Title in scratched letters at top of image, partially in reverse; the individual letters are printed correctly but the words themselves run right to left on the print., Printmaker attribution and date from impression at the Library and Archives Canada (Acc. No. 1938-223-42), on which the contemporary statement of responsibility "by Mrs. Simcoe 1794" is written in ink., After a drawing by British Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton, who travelled with Pacanne during the American Revolution. The original drawing is now housed at the Houghton Library at Harvard., A slightly later date is suggested by a contemporary ink annotation beneath plate mark on Lewis Walpole Library impression: An Indian Chief N. America of the Miamis tribe (from life 1795)., and Presumably one of only two small plates etched by Simcoe, which were sent to England in 1794 and printed in Bristol and London; see Dictionary of Canadian Biography, entry for Elizabeth Posthuma (Simcoe) Gwillim.
Volume 2, after page 146. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricatural portrait of Robert Bragge, bust length, in profile to right, in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Late Doctor Bragg
Description:
Title etched below image., Tentative attribution to James Hook from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, page 435 (after no. 7206). See also: British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1867,0309.767., Date "1787" following printmaker's initials is etched in reverse., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 31 x 24 cm., and Bound in after page 146 in volume 2 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1842]
Call Number:
SH Contents F171 no. 1 Box 100
Image Count:
1
Description:
Title from published based on this drawing., Mounted on a 1843 printing of the wood engraving based on this drawing which had been engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., and Attributed to Fairholt who drew illustrations for the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue. See London magazine, ca. 1843.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A portrait of Thomas Kirgate, half-length, looking to the right
Description:
Title written in black ink below plate line, in an unidentified hand., Statements of responsibility written in black ink below title, in an unidentified hand: Painted & etched by E. Edwards, 1784; finished by J. Hall., and Mounted on page 18 in Horace Walpole's Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex.