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1. A collection of prints and a drawing collected by Horace Walpole to illustrate his copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1787?]
- Call Number:
- 49 3069
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London : Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785).
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Also bound in are three prints described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum; these are cataloged separately., and Original boards with new back but old hand-lettered label, uncut. With Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP2 later state) on half-title page. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron. Press-mark R.10, but apparently moved from the Round Tower to the Library in the Offices. Not in Walpole's Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of the Earl of Orford (1813-94), imitated from Horace Walpole's, and bookplate of John A. Spoor. Also with bookplate "AHA".
- Subject (Name):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of prints and a drawing collected by Horace Walpole to illustrate his copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
2. Principal floor of Strawberry-Hill, 1781 [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1781]
- Call Number:
- 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 121.3. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., With a lettered key written to the left of the image that identifies the various rooms depicted in the floor plan., Possibly the original drawing for a plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., and Bound in as page 121.3 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Principal floor of Strawberry-Hill, 1781 [art original].
3. [Charlotte Boyle's drawings for The old English baron] [art original].
- Creator:
- Boyle-Walsingham, Charlotte, 1769-1831, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1789]
- Call Number:
- 53 R259 777D
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of amateur watercolor drawings that illustrate various scenes from Clara Reeve's Gothic novel The old English baron. The drawings are inserted throughout the printed text of the fourth edition, bound in near the scenes that are depicted. Although untitled, the drawings have been assigned titles that derive from the text
- Description:
- Collection title devised by cataloger., Each drawing is signed 'C. Boyle' and most are dated with the month, day, and year of production. The artist is probably Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham (1769-1831), who married Lord Henry Fitzgerald in 1791; she legally changed her name to Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros in 1806, after successfully petitioning to end the abeyance to the Barony of de Ros and becoming 20th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley., Bound in a copy of: Reeve, C. The old English baron: a Gothic story. London : Printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXXXIX [1789]., Lacking the two published plates., Bound in vellum with gilt edges and tooling and with pink silk endpapers., Extra-illustrated with eight watercolor drawings on vellum, produced by Charlotte Boye in 1789 (these drawings are cataloged separately)., Autograph (Fitz-Gerald?) scratched out on page iii., and In red case.
- Subject (Name):
- Reeve, Clara, 1729-1807.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Charlotte Boyle's drawings for The old English baron] [art original].
4. [Henry William Bunbury's drawings for The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman] [art original].
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1770]
- Call Number:
- 75 B87B St45
- Container / Volume:
- v.1
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of drawings that illustrate select scenes from Laurence Sterne's novel The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. The drawings vary in level of detail and completeness; one is a slight pencil sketch, two are more detailed drawings in pen and ink over pencil, and three are elaborate drawings in ink and wash. The drawings are bound in as either the frontispiece or before the frontispiece, one in each of the six volumes of the eighth edition of the work. Several of the compositions were later engraved, presumably from larger designs by Bunbury
- Description:
- Collection title devised by cataloger., The drawings are unsigned, and only one has a title written at the bottom., Bound in H.W. Bunbury's copy of: Sterne, L. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770., In slipcase., and With H.W. Bunbury's original drawings (cataloged separately) bound in; also with verses in unidentified hand on end-papers of v. 4.
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Henry William Bunbury's drawings for The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman] [art original].
5. [Portrait drawings to illustrate Correspondance complète de la marquise du Deffand avec ses amis le président Hénault-Montesquieu-d'Alembert-Voltaire-Horace Walpole ...] [art original].
- Creator:
- Baudet-Bauderval, A., artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1865]
- Call Number:
- 536 865
- Container / Volume:
- t.1
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of portrait drawings depicting some of the correspondents included in a French collection of Madame du Deffand's letters. The drawings are inserted throughout both volumes of the printed text, supplementing the engraved portraits and other plates that were either issued with the work or added later
- Description:
- Collection title devised by cataloger., All but one of the drawings have the sitter's name added in pencil below, and all but two are signed "ABaudet Bauderval" (with the initial letters forming a monogram). The artist is tentaitvely identified as A. Baudet-Bauderval, a lithographer who was active in France in the mid-19th century; see person record in the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France., Bound in a copy of: Du Deffand, M. Correspondance complète de la marquise du Deffand avec ses amis le président Hénault-Montesquieu-d'Alembert-Voltaire-Horace Walpole ... Paris : H. Plon, 1865., and Extra-illustrated with plates, portraits, drawings.
- Subject (Name):
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, d'Averne, Sophie de Brégis, comtesse, active 1721-1723,, Pont-de-Veyle, 1697-1774,, Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,, Saint-Lambert, Jean-François de, 1716-1803,, Luynes, Marie Brûlart de La Borde, duchesse de, 1684?-1763,, Chaulnes, Anne Josèphe Bonnier de La Mosson, duchesse de, 1718-1787,, Vallière, Anne Julie Françoise de Crussol, duchesse de, 1713-1797,, Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville-Villeroy, duchesse de, 1707-1787,, and Rochefort, Marie Thérèse de Larlan de Kercadio, comtesse de, 1716-1782,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait drawings to illustrate Correspondance complète de la marquise du Deffand avec ses amis le président Hénault-Montesquieu-d'Alembert-Voltaire-Horace Walpole ...] [art original].