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1. A view from St Iohn's College Cambridge [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [May 1809]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 51. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Dr. Wood walks meditatively in profile to the left, holding his gown to his waist. He has short white hair or wig, a white eyebrow, wears a mortar-board, bands over a shirt-frill, and knee-breeches, showing a neat leg."--British Museum online catalogue and "James Wood (1760-1839), Fellow of St. John's and mathematician, was the son of a Lancashire weaver. He was B.D. 1793, D.D. 1815, Master of his College 1815-39, and Dean of Ely from 1820. He was the most influential man in the University, and according to the 'D.N.B.' the model head of a college ..."--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- View from St John's College Cambridge
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Leaf 51 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Mr. Wood" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Wood, James, 1760-1839
- Subject (Topic):
- College administrators and Mathematicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view from St Iohn's College Cambridge [graphic]
2. Always a character [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ash, William, active 1823, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [25 November 1823]
- Call Number:
- 823.11.25.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A caricatured portrait of comedian John Liston, standing before the Theatre Royal. Leaning against a bollard is a placard advertising the play 'Fish out of Water' in which he was starring as 'Sam Savoury'.
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 25th, 1823, by G. Humphrey, 24, St. James's Stt. & 74, New-Bond St., London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Liston, John, 1776-1846 and Haymarket Theatre (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Theaters, Comedians, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Always a character [graphic]
3. Simon Lord Fraser of Lovat [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1746]
- Call Number:
- 746.00.00.31
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of the elderly Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, whole length, sitting on a chair, its back carved with a scallop shell; he holds a book in his right hand with his left hand in his waistcoat. To his right is a small side table with a quill pen in ink bottle and along the wall shelves of books
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 166., Frontispiece to: Arbuthnot, A. Life, adventures, and many and great vicissitudes of fortune of Simon, Lord Lovat. London : Printed and sold (for the author) by R. Walker ..., MDDCCXLVI [1746]., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- R. Walker
- Subject (Name):
- Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747,
- Subject (Topic):
- Private libraries
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Simon Lord Fraser of Lovat [graphic].
4. The late Doctr. Bragg [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1787]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
- Collection Title:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bragge, Robert, Dr., 1700-1777,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The late Doctr. Bragg [graphic]
5. The late Right Revd. Dr. Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [December 1809]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 38. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Horsley, stout and prelatical, in apron, gaiters, and buckled shoes, walks in profile to the right, holding cane and tricorne hat in gloved hands."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Late Right Reverend Dr. Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "A reissue, with altered title, of a plate published in 1802, 'A trip from Rochester to St. Asaph', the final figure of the date being altered and '4 Spring Gardens' inserted with a caret"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 20.1 cm, on sheet 32.2 x 25.1 cm., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 560 (leaf numbered '154' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Geographic):
- Wales
- Subject (Name):
- Horsley, Samuel, 1733-1806 and Horsley, Samuel, 1733-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bishops, Clergy, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The late Right Revd. Dr. Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph [graphic]
6. The late Right Revd. Dr. Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [December 1809]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 38. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Horsley, stout and prelatical, in apron, gaiters, and buckled shoes, walks in profile to the right, holding cane and tricorne hat in gloved hands."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Late Right Reverend Dr. Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "A reissue, with altered title, of a plate published in 1802, 'A trip from Rochester to St. Asaph', the final figure of the date being altered and '4 Spring Gardens' inserted with a caret"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue., and Leaf 38 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Geographic):
- Wales
- Subject (Name):
- Horsley, Samuel, 1733-1806 and Horsley, Samuel, 1733-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bishops, Clergy, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The late Right Revd. Dr. Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph [graphic]
7. [Mrs. Ann Young, spinster] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Fauquier, William, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 77. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "This etching gives a portrait to the hips in profile, to our right, of an elderly woman, with a big nose and a protruding lower jaw: she wears a close cap, trimmed with lace at the fore edges; her right hand hangs in front of her body in a listless manner; she stoops."--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Mrs. A. Young, of Eltham, 1746
- Description:
- Title from contemporary note in brown ink below image., Additional title from annotation on British Museum impression of a variant state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,1211.148., Printmaker and date from Horace Walpole's note in brown ink, in lower right corner: By Mr. W. Fauquier 1783., Variant (later?) state, with printmaker's initials etched in lower right corner. For a state lacking these initials, see no. 2845 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Mounted on page 77 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Older people and Single women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Mrs. Ann Young, spinster] [graphic]