- Creator:
- Lombart, Pierre, 1612-1682, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1669]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Anne Hyde, first wife of James II, half length, head directed to right but looking at viewer; wearing pearls in her hair, around her neck and looped onto her dress."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Portrait of Anne Hyde, Duchess of York
- Description:
- Title from French verses etched below image., A copy by Mary Beale of the original painting by Lely was kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 112 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- York, Anne Hyde, Duchess of, 1637-1671, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Telle est la charmante duchesse dont la gloire obscurcit tout les fiécles passez et que tous le fuivans admireront sans cesse sans iamais l'admirer assez [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1745?]
- Call Number:
- 745.10.00.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A satire on Thomas Herring, Archbishop of York, and the enthusiastic part he played in raising volunteer troops to resist the Jacobite rising. He is shown dressed partly as a bishop and partly as a military officer his episcopal gown tucked up over a lace-edged military coat and waistcoat beneath, he has lawn sleeves but wears gaiters and a gorget, on his back is a knapsack with his mitre on top. He shoulders a gun from the trigger of which is a ribbon lettered O Lord open thou my Lips & my Mouth shall show forth thy Praise. He says 'My [mitre] My Lands My Gold, Church'. A fish is shown above his lace cocked hat in allusion to his name. Behind him are a group of less keen volunteers, on the left lay men march with armed clergy, one saying 'May [he] Starve with us' another carries a standard (large flag?) a cleric says 'I'm a Canon', another claims 'I’ll be Vicar of Bray still', two clerical soldiers on the right complain one saying 'I've 12 Children but no Lands' the other 'Fight I have but 20£ a Year'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Church militant
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: 'mitred' by a bishop's mitre, 'church' by an image of a church building., Temporary local subject terms: Clergymen -- Emblems: crowned herring for Bishop Herring -- Literature: reference to the song The Vicar of Bray -- Knapsacks -- Church buildings -- Portrayal of a church militant., and Watermark: countermark IV.
- Publisher:
- Che Cocin
- Subject (Name):
- Herring, Thomas, 1693-1757
- Subject (Topic):
- Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Bishops, Clergy, Miters, Daggers & swords, and Rifles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The [mitred] soldier, or, The [church] militant [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1787]
- Call Number:
- 787.00.00.15+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A 1787 fencing match between a man and a woman in the elegant rooms of Carlton House, London. In the audience stands the Prince of Wales who had arranged this fencing demonstration between Mademoiselle d'Eon (right), and Monsieur de Saint George (left). Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (1728-1810), known as the Chevalier d'Eon, who lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman. The fencer on the left is Joseph de Bologne de Saint-Georges or the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), who was the son of a wealthy plantation owner in the French West Indies colony of Guadeloupe and one of his African slaves named Anne
- Alternative Title:
- Assault and Fencing match
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., After the painting by Victor Marie Picot., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark; design cropped.
- Publisher:
- Published by Corbeau at Paris and by Robinde at London
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810., and Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne, chevalier de, 1745-1799.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dueling, Fencing, and Spectators
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The assaut, or, Fencing match which took place at Carlton House, on the 9th of April 1787 between Mademoiselle La Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont and Monsieur de Saint George. In the presence of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, several of the nobility & many eminent fencing masters of London. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Guttenberg, Carl Gottlieb, 1743-1790, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1778]
- Call Number:
- 778.00.15.01++ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Anglo-American revolution
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Proof with title. Cf. No. 5490 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Place of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Adaptation, in reverse, of The oracle by John Dixon., Temporary local subject terms: Acts: Stamp Act -- America: tea -- Taxation: tea -- Emblems: France as a cock --Personifications: Time -- Europe -- Asia -- Africa -- America -- Switzerland -- Holland -- Lighting: magic lantern -- Flags: American flag with serpent -- French prints., and "No. 126" added in an unknown hand at top center of sheet.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The tea-tax-tempest, or, The Anglo-American revolution [graphic].
- Creator:
- Philipon, Charles, 1800-1862, lithographer
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1840]
- Call Number:
- 845.00.00.40+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Companion print: Agens provocateurs., and Langlumé, lithographer and printer, active 1822-1840 in Paris.
- Publisher:
- Chez Fr. Janet, rue des Sts. Pères, No. 10, Published by Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street, and Lith. de Langlumé
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Victimes provoquées (balcon de l'opéra) / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1900?]
- Call Number:
- Portraits F831 no. 1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Benjamin Franklin performing his famous experiment of June 1752 in which he attached a key to a kite and flew it in a thunderstorm in order to prove that lightning was electricity. Almost allegorical in presentation, Franklin is shown seated on clouds with cherub-like figures assisting him on the right in the backgroun, his red cape blowing in the wind against a stormy sky
- Description:
- Date and title taken from impression at the Philadelphia Museum of Art., Based on the Benjamiin West oil painting now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art., and Embossed letters at lower left corner: Cercle Librairie estampes encircling initials RTN.
- Publisher:
- Published by Godefroy Mayer, No. 15, Rue Pigalle
- Subject (Name):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790,
- Subject (Topic):
- Electricity and Inventors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Benjamin Franklin drawing electricity from the sky] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Landseer, Thomas, 1795-1880, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1827]
- Call Number:
- 827.12.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "In a grassy glade an ape lies as if asleep. His desolate mate sits on her haunches, watching him. They do not wear clothes. Below: '"-- now will canker Sorrow eat my bud, / And chase the native beauty from his cheek," Shakespeare.' ['King John', III. iv.]"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue. and Plate from: Monkey-ana or Men in miniature ... by Thomas Landseer.
- Publisher:
- Published Decr. 1, 1827 by Moon, Boys & Graves, 6 Pall Mall and Chez Piers Bernard Boulevar des Italiens
- Subject (Topic):
- Apes and Grief
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The widow] [graphic]