Wash drawing of the shell seat, which was completed in 1754, located on the grounds of Horace Walpole's estate Strawberry Hill, in Twickenham, Middlesex
Description:
Title in pencil by unknown hand at bottom of sheet., From a group of Strawberry Hill views by the same hand, two of which carry watermarks dated 1821 and 1822., Unknown artist., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from text below image, in lower right corner., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., In lower left corner: S. Sly & Co., and Mounted to: 31 x 24 cm.
Page 457. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of the shrine designed by Pietro Cavallini, brought to the chapel at Strawberry Hill from Rome in 1768. A cross sits on the floor beneath the shrine, between the twisted columns; an armored glove and dagger are seen in the foreground, while other arms and armor hang on the walls in the background
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Artist "E.B." identified as E. Bell in local card catalog record., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., and Mounted on page 457 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Page 299. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of several items from Horace Walpole's collection that were sold at the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842. Sitting on a table draped in a red tablecloth, surrounded by other items, is the silver bell that was once attributed to Benvenuto Cellini. Shields, urns, a book, a decorated hunting horn, and an ornate dagger occupy the floor in front of the table. To the right are several pieces of armor, on the floor beneath a stained glass window; wooden cases in the Gothic style are seen in the background
Alternative Title:
Silver bell and other curiosities and gems as seen in Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from contemporary note in ink, on a separate sheet mounted below image., Statement of responsibility written in ink on mounting sheet, beneath lower right corner or image. Artist "E.B." identified as E. Bell in local card catalog record., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., and Mounted on page 299 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Bells, Urns, Shields, Daggers & swords, Stained glass, and Windows
Title from printed label on portfolior cover., Printmaker's name from: Before and after Waterloo; letters from Edward Stanley ... London : T.F. Unwin, 1907., Date of publication from dealer's description. Edward Stanley was rector of Alderley, Cheshire, at that time, and this work was probably published locally., and Bound in quarter morocco with plain boards; oval illustrated title label pasted on front board. Two plates with punchline added in old ink manuscript. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Science, Demons, Dueling, Insects, Owls, and Quacks
Presumably a parody of David Tenier the Younger's print "A Flemish Club". In this version, also a tavern setting, four monkeys dressed in shirts and vests and two wearing plumed hats, sit around a bowl, one looking back at a companion who holds up a glass, one who smokes as he holds a tankard; the one holding a knife looks with surprise at the bowl of food
Alternative Title:
Smoking club
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Animals smoking., and Mounted to 21 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Eating & drinking, Monkeys, Smoking, and Pipes (Smoking)
Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse pasted on sheet: And oh! how painful it was to hear, when our son was in swaddling-clothes ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Quacks -- Zannies -- Peace negotiations with France, 1762 -- Newspapers: The Auditor -- Newspapers: The Monitor -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Demons -- Trades: street pedlar -- Medical instruments: clyster pipes -- Medicine bottles -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniform -- Letters: "Wandsworth Epistle" -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Reference to Lord Temple., and Mounted to 35 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
"Satire on the popularity of the Beggar's Opera in the form of a medley print. At top left a print shows two oval portraits, Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum on the left and Thomas Walker as Macheath on the right, two short columns of verse beneath. In the centre lies a print depicting a debased Parnassus: in the foreground muses drink from a barrel, one vomiting; a woman wearing a hat hands a basket to a muse sitting in a dust-cart drawn by a Pegasus; a cornucopia lies upended on the ground: in the background, is a boxing match surrounded on two sides with a temporary stand from which flies the flag of St George and to the right of which a bull and a bear are preceded by Apollo playing a fiddle; beneath are four lines of verse describing the scene. Behind the Parnassus print another shows the ghost of Jeremy Collier rising from his grave holding the pamphlet in which he had condemned "The Immoratlities of the English Stage", four lines of verse beneath. This print is overlaid by a smaller oblong print with four verses and portraits of Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst) Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Lavinia Fenton (as Polly Peachum). On the left is a print in which Democritus and Heraclitus examine a globe together, eight lines of verse beneath. In the centre is an engraved address 'To Polly Peachum' quoted, according to the earlier state from The Daily Journal, April 19, 1728. At lower left is a print with a stage where a Apollo descends on a cloud to judge between rival singers (Faustina and Cuzzoni) to whom a group of gentlemen with asses' ears listen without judgement, two columns of verse beneath explain the scene. On the right, a scene by a river where a balance has been set up in which the Beggar's Opera outweighs Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Addison, Nicholas Rowe and Thomas Otway; the personification of trade collapses in the arms of George II, assisted by Queen Caroline; verses beneath claim that the popularity of the Beggar's Opera is indicative of the sorry state of the country. At bottom right is a scene in Newgate with men and women sitting round a table on which is a punch bowl and pipes; they are toasting a laureated John Gay who sits at the centre, saying 'The Beggers Opera for yr', 'G(a)y for ever', 'Let's vote him King of the Beggers' and he responds, 'Yov'e done me too great an honour but I'll -'; a small child stands beside the table; two columns of verse beneath."-- British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text engraved above image., "Poet G-" refers to John Gay., Later state, lacking references to 'Daily Journal April 19th. 1728' below the verses "to the Tune of the Soldier and ye Sailor" and to 'Daily Journal April 10 1798' below those "To Polly Peacham". Cf. Compare no. 1806 in v. 2 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 45 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732, Gay, John, 1685-1732., Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760, Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744, Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726, Bordoni, Faustina, 1697-1781., Amhurst, N. 1697-1742. (Nicholas),, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Heraclitus, of Ephesus., Democritus, approximately 460 B.C.-approximately 370 B.C., and Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc, Pegasus (Greek mythology), Apollo, Muses (Greek deities), Parnassus, Mount (Greece), Prints, Prisons, and Theaters
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 8 Box D170
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young, fashionably dressed man walks down the street while sweeping his walking stick back in forth in front of him. He has struck a passerby on the shin, the latter holding the injury in both hands wincing in pain. From the caption: ... who must always remember when in action to sing or whistle a tune, in order that the swing may be kept in proper time. By carefully observing these rules, great execution may be performed on the ancles [sic] and shins of every person within the sphere of attraction
Alternative Title:
Six different methods of carrying a stick with their effects. Compartment no. 1
Description:
Title from letterpress caption below image., Pen and ink drawing on a letterpress broadside with ornamental border., Letterpress caption in six lines below image: May be practised with a small cane, switch, or whip, giving the arm full play; the practitioner should be a young giddy fellow, about one and twenty ..., One of a series of six drawings by Woodward with the same letterpress heading., and For further information, consult library staff.
