"Portrait seen three-quarter length, directed towards right, facing towards and looking to front, wig, velvet coat, ruffles, right arm across that of chair, hand holding pen, left arm on table to right, on which lie inkstand and papers addressed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable Horatio Walpole Esq
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state, before addition of date at end of artist's signature. Cf. State I in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 3, no. 157, page 1122., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted to 43 x 33 cm., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in pencil (traced in ink) in lower left corner: Created Lord Walpole June 1756.
A tracing of a 1731 print after Hogarth: Satire on Orator Henley and his followers. A view of his Oratory in Clare Market with Henley preaching from an open-air platform in front of the building, one cloven hoof protruding from beneath his robe. A monkey wearing clerical bands holds a rope which is attached to Henley's right hand; a small chest of pills, a medicine bottle and a pamphlet lettered "The Hyp Doctor" lie at his feet. In the foreground is a procession of men, lettered, "Ha!", "Ha!", "Te Hee", "He!" and "Silly Cur"; the latter wearing a laurel wreath is identified by Hawkins as Colley Cibber, and the others, two of whom wear ruffs, may be intended as actors or clowns; a puritan at their head, is urged by Henley's "Scout" towards the door of the Oratory, outside which stands a butcher acting as doorman; inside a man pays a clergyman at "The Treasury". On the extreme left, a man squats defecating on Henley's publications. Behind him a coach bears Folly, holding her bauble, towards an inn with the sign of the dunce's cap; a gallows labelled "Merit" stands beside it and an angel holding a ribbon labelled "Modesty" flies off
Description:
Title from text in image., Attributed in lower left, below image: W. Hogarth sc., Drawing attributed to Steevens by curator., Tracing of a 1731 print., Detailed description of the scene in a Steevens's hand, mounted to the right of this drawing., and On page 12 in volume 1.
Subject (Name):
Henley, John, 1692-1756 and Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: cooks., Mounted to 24 x 17 cm., and Subject identified in two later inscriptions below image as cook at the Rainbow Tavern in Fleet Street.
Volume 1, page 10a. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A French postillion wearing huge boots is seen from behind, walking away holding his whip
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Postillions., Mounted on page 10a in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 12.4 x 8.2 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink in lower left corner: HW. ipse sc.
Volume 1, page 10a. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A French postillion wearing huge boots is seen from behind, walking away holding his whip
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Postillions., Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 12.1 x 8.1 cm, on sheet 12.4 x 8.4 cm.
Description from Steevens's note mounted to the right of the print: A procession of painters to the shrine of Bacchus, a slight but spirited etching. The jolly god appears crowned with a jordan. His altar is a Hogshead. Among the trophies carried along, is a helmet which has a punch bowl & ladle for its crest, and a standard displaying pipies and bottles. A figure, probably designed for old Leveridge the singer, in the character of a priest of Bacchus, is seen in the rear of the cavalcade. The chief characters in this plate are copied & introduced, without the slightest propriety, into a wretched print erroneously attributed to Hogarth, and called The oratory. See. As it is not for a certainity known that this procession was the work of Hogarth*, let the collector who wishes to form his judgment of it from the style in which it is etched, compare it with the festoon of laurel, the subscription ticket for Garrick in King Richard III. *Perhaps it represents part of a Bacchanalian procession painted by Lagueree on the walls of a tavern in Drury-Lane where a club of virtuosi met. See Mr. Walpole's account of Laguerre
Description:
Title from Steevens., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Paulson in his second edition of Hogarth's graphic works (no. 280) is given tentative attribution to Hogarth but this attribution is dismissed in the 3rd edition based on stylistic grounds., On page 12 in volume 1., and Also ms. note (from Ireland, Hogarth Illus. p. 61-62) is inscribed on separate sheet below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity) and Leveridge, Richard, 1670 or 1671-1758
Subject (Topic):
Intoxication, Painters (Artists), and Parades & processions
A scene in Paris on the Boulevard des Italiens outside a coffee house (or French café) in which fashionable ladies (several wearing large hoop earrings) and gentlemen sit in ladderback chairs or stand about in conversation. One man looks through his quizzing glass at the scene. One woman sits with her two children and a dog. On the left a coachman looks done from his box
Description:
Title and date from contemporary manuscript annotations on a separate piece of paper pasted below the image., Sheet trimmed within plate., Watermark., and Mounted to 33 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Carriages & coaches, Children, Clothing & dress, Dogs, and Quizzing glasses
Portrait of a lady thought to represent Anne Boleyn; bust-length, wearing rectangular-fronted headdress and pearl necklace with oval pendant
Description:
Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand; the name "Jane Seymour" is also written lightly at bottom of sheet., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Apparently engraved after the picture by Holbein, perhaps after the copy by Eccardt that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 101 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 (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536,
Volume 1, page 68. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature of two men, one on the left turning from his examination of a small object to listen to the other who stands in profile on the right with a tray hanging on a strap in front of him, who gestures as he talks."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Tentatively attributed to Francis Grose in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1925,0511.83., Contemporary note "by Capt. Grose" written in ink at bottom of sheet., Date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 68 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.