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.
A man dressed in nightclothes sits in an armchair in front of a fireplace. His feet and legs are in bandages, and rest on a pillow. On a table next to him stands a bowl and spoon and a medicine bottle. He greets with enthusiasm a small dish of food being brought to him by a young woman
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date of production supplied by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Watermark 1824.
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Diet therapy, Sick persons, Food, and Servants
A set of playing cards, or transformation cards, drawn by an unidentified artist, showing caricatured figures; each vignette incorporates the formation of hearts or diamonds into the scene. Some of the cards are numbered or annotated on the backs while others show drafts of other sketches. The set contains only the red suits, cards numbered from one to ten in each, although some numbers are missing and there are multiples of some numbers. Illustrations are also duplicated while others appear not to have been finished. There are no cards with clubs and spades. A number of the cards center on Shakespearean themes, social history, and street scenes (such as courtroom drama, musicians performing, a man in the stocks and, in a few, card playing itself). Some of the scenes depicted on these cards show more ribald, drawing from Macbeth’s Weird Sisters, Twelfth Night, King John, and The Merry Wives of Windsor; several are annotated on the reverse with lines from the plays. Falstaff is featured on several cards. Many of the cards reflect the mores of the period and the contrast between ruling passions and rules of conduct. In one, two men cast judgment upon a pregnant woman; it is annotated on the reverse with a dialogue between a Constable and a Judge. In "Village School" a schoolteacher manages to simultaneously hold a book and pinch a child's ear (nine of hearts). Other subjects include a game of chess (five of diamonds); drinking and smoking in a pub (seven of diamonds); and "Bunbury’s Country Club" (six of diamonds) in which the artist has kept elements from the print (published circa 1788). On the ten of diamonds the artist depicts a game of whist (annotated on the reverse "Can you one?").
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger., Some cards annotated and numbered on the verso., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, and Social life and customs
Title devised by curator., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"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
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[before 1809]
Call Number:
Print00996
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in ink at lower left., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from published print: Published Octr., 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title devised by curator., Pencil inscription verso., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local subject terms: Country doctors., Temporary local subject terms: Dental examination., Temporary local subject terms: Corns., and Temporary local subject terms: Office interiors.
Subject (Topic):
Podiatry, Dentistry, Dental offices, Pain, and Surgery
A set of original designs by Robert Cruikshank, for an unrecorded series of conundrum cards. The eight designs are all inscribed with a number (the highest being 170) and the name of the character, but all lack the 1- or 2-line conundrum
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Each card annotated in pencil or ink, signed ‘RCk.', and Date from dealer's description.
Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900, artist
Published / Created:
[1837]
Call Number:
Print10249
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by curator., This drawing originally hung in the Fulton Room on the Cushing Rotunda balcony in the School of Medicine., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Universities.