Title devised by curator., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: tripod table -- Foot-stool -- Chair.
Depiction of both sides of a silver medal, the obverse showing the bust of Pope Gregory XIII in profile to the left and the reverse showing the destroying angel murdering the Protestants
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of publication based on death date of Richard Bull, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated volume he assembled., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of large portions of the plate., Horace Walpole owned one of these medals and kept it in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 111 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gregory XIII, Pope, 1502-1585, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Thomas Morton, half-length; seated to right, with head turned to look to front; wearing a double-breasted coat fastened with two bottons, over waistcoat, shirt with standing collar and neckerchief tied in a bow; after Shee."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, and place and date of publication from similar print in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0612.1113., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and Stamp on verso: Copyright Fredk. Hollyer, Pembroke Square, Kensington.
Possibly a view of Donnington Grove in Berkshire, which was designed and built by John Chute in 1763 for James Pettit Andrews
Description:
Title devised by curator., Approximate date of publication supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 103 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Volume 1, page 77. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"This etching gives a portrait to the hips in profile, to our right, of an elderly woman, with a big nose and a protruding lower jaw: she wears a close cap, trimmed with lace at the fore edges; her right hand hangs in front of her body in a listless manner; she stoops."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. A. Young, of Eltham, 1746
Description:
Title from contemporary note in brown ink below image., Additional title from annotation on British Museum impression of a variant state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,1211.148., Printmaker and date from Horace Walpole's note in brown ink, in lower right corner: By Mr. W. Fauquier 1783., Variant (later?) state, with printmaker's initials etched in lower right corner. For a state lacking these initials, see no. 2845 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Mounted on page 77 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Portrait of an unidentified woman, three quarter length, left arm resting on a pillow with tassels, curtain behind
Description:
Title from previous owner written in pencil below image., Mounted on leaf numbered 26 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
"Portrait of Mrs Lawson, nearly whole length, seated to front in a landscape, with head slightly tilted to left, looking to front; her right hand resting on a draped piece of furniture, her left hand on her lap; wearing a veil and low-cut dress fastened with two clasps; curtain, tree and fence behind; church in background at left; proof illustration to Mrs Jameson's 'Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles II' (London: 1833); after Willem Wissing; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, date, and artist, from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits, which also states: "From picture now at Hampton Court. Pl. to Mrs. Jameson's Beauties of the Court of Charles II, 1833."
A three-quarters length portrait of a man in a hat, sleeping
Description:
Title from ms. not in Steevens's hand on an impression in the Lewis Walpole Library., Note in Paulson's Hogarth's graphic works (1962): not by Hogarth., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below print mark: one of Hogarth's club., and On page 235 in volume 3.
Title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 141 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.