An elevation drawing of a Gothic columbarium for renovations to John Chute's estate, The Vyne, drawn before 25 August 1757 as referenced in a letter from Horace Walpole to Bentley. Another drawing, also not executed, was mounted below on the same leaf --"Elevation of the entrance end"-- and dated by Walpole on verso 1750
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note written in ink on the mount above the image., Partial watermark centered in lower edge: GR., See Horace Walpole's correspondence with George Montague 25 August 1757 (Yale edition, Horace Walpole's correspondence, vol. 9, p. 216)., and Formerly mounted in the lower half of leaf 46 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
In a kitchen with great over-hanging chimney, probably a tavern, five men sit around a simple table, drinking and smoking, a pitcher between them. Hams hang from the rafters in ceiling, the attic above visible through missing planks. In the background, near the door, is an old couple in conversation
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
An image of an outbuilding and the printing house at Strawberry Hill. A figure believed to be Thomas Kirgate stands in the road in front of the two buildings holding a large portfolio under his arm
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Title written in black ink in unidentified hand below image. and An amateur copy probably after the F. Jukes print of the same title, which was based on Edward Edwards' drawing "Printing-House at Strawberry Hill 1784". The original drawing is held in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
A George III reverse painting on glass. A child stands between his two parents, his mother kneeling on the left and his father swings his watch to entice the child to take his first steps in their fashionable appointed sitting room. Through the open window above the settee can be seen a boat with a sail on a river and a imposing building on the distant shore
Description:
Title from item. and For further information, consult library staff.
Reverse painting on glass. A personification of Flora in a chariot pulled by two cats. In the distance a garden with a folly
Description:
Title from item., Artist unidentified., With text below image: Stampa & Steffenoni, 14 Heather Lane, London., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Plate numbered '1' in upper right corner., Plate from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Secondary sheet with letterpress text mounted on print: The packet is quitting Dover "with fav'ring gale," the cargo, on deck, in a state of "blissful ignorance" ...
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: From Paris. A party are posting to Calais, -and the passengers of the Dilligence are stretching their own limbs and relieving the horses' up a hill ..., and Second sheet attached to print 7 x 17 cm.
Title from the first line of verse., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Originaly imprint and printmaker's name below image mostly burnished out., Publication date in an unverified card catalog record: 1700?, Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: From cares that man is never free, Who sets his heart upon his riches ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms.
"Five passengers sit together on a bench against the side of a ship, all but a small boy, seemingly a mulatto, manifesting misery or resignation. The others (left to right) are a woman shrouded in black except for her chin, a planter in a long coat and broad-brimmed hat, his wife's arm through his. A fat and hideous negress, awkwardly asleep. The deck is level."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Reproduction of an etching by George Cruikshank, after a drawing by Frederick Marryat; Cruikshank's "etched by G.C." signature and Marryat's artist's device (an anchor tilted diagonally) are reproduced and legible beneath the design, as is the original imprint "London, Pubd. June 5th, 1824, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street.", Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, no. 14718., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1140., and Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1248.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Passengers, Decks (Ships), Motion sickness, Hats, and Smoking