A confrontation in a bedchamber between a black woman in a nightgown in bed and four men who surround her canopy bed. One man holds a candle. The woman is slapping the one man to her right on the cheek while another pulls him away. A fourth man is pointing towards her shoulder
Description:
Title from ms. note. Date from curator., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above sheet: Gin-Drinkers. Spurious., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below sheet: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 429., and On page 154 in volume 2.
Thirty-seven men gather in a large room with a painted ceiling and a tessellated marble floor. They drink and converse in small groups. Some are seated at small tables. Servants provide coffee and punch. At the far right, the artist Thomas Patch, seated on the statue of a golden ass, holds a palette and painting stick. The front of the pedestal is inscribed: EREXIT| ANNO | [MD]CCLXI. A lengthy doggerel Italian verse is on the side. Seven canvases hang on the walls. From left to right they are an abbé, perhaps Anton maria Bisconi), Sir Henry Mainwaring, Lord Stamford, the Duke of Roxburghe Doune (later Earl of moray), the Rev. Johnathan Liyeatt, and on the right wall, a parody of a classical picture with Patch in Roman costume. Humorous statuettes represent the four continents. Some of the figures have been identified, including John Althorp, Duke of Roxburghe who is handing a letter to Horave Mann, Lord Cowper, Sir brooks Bridges and Charles Boothby. Other possible identities include Lord Grantham, Thomas Robinson, Lord Torrington and James White. At the center foreground a dog, perhaps Patch’s own, is seated on the floor with a collection of wine coolers and bottles
Alternative Title:
Punch party [from Watson]
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Alternative title from Watson: A punch party., Inscribed on the front of the plinth: EREXIT/ANNO/[M]DCCLXI., and For more information see Object File in Flat File 35.
Title assigned by cataloger., Plate numbered "21" in upper right corner., Other prints in the series were designed and etched by either Tim Bobbin or Thomas Sandars., Restrike of a plate from: Human passions delineate ... by Timo[thy] Bobbin. Manchester : Printed and published by John Heywood, 1773., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Money lenders -- Macaronies -- Property deeds., and Mounted on verso is description in verse of the image: Plate 21. My lord at Arthur's sharp'd of all his store, I 'th' morning quested how to finger more ...
Title assigned by cataloger., Other prints in the series were designed and etched by either Tim Bobbin or Thomas Sandars., Plate from: Human passions delineated in above 120 figures ... design'd in the Hogarthian style ... by Timo[thy] Bobbin. [Manchester] : John Heywood, 1773., Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Toupée wigs -- Club wigs -- Nosegays -- Female dress, 1773.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Wigs, Corsages, and Flowers
publish'd as the act directs June 1773. and [printed 1816]
Call Number:
773.06.00.24.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger., Other prints in the series were designed and etched by either Tim Bobbin or Thomas Sandars., Plate from: Human passions delineated ... by Timo. Bobbin. Manchester : Printed and published by John Heywood, 1773., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Wigs: toupée wigs -- Wigs: club wigs --Nosegays -- Female dress, 1773.., and Watermark: 1816.
publish'd as the act directs, June 1773. and [printed 1816]
Call Number:
773.06.00.37
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Other prints in the series were designed and etched by either Tim Bobbin or Thomas Sandars., Printing date of 1816, based on watermark., Plate from: Human passions delineated in above 120 figures ... by Timo[thy] Bobbin. Manchester : John Heywood, 1773., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Drinking -- Contentment -- Glass: wine bottle -- Corkscrews -- Containers: jug., and Mounted on verso: description in verse of the image: Plate 37. Behold, ye wordlings! whence true pleasure springs not from much wealth, or from the smiles of kings ...
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 2d. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Unfinished drawing of the Gothic lantern, designed by Richard Bentley, that hung in the Entrance of Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Lanthron in the Red Hall
Description:
Title from local catalog card; the title written in ink on mounting page has "lanthorn" misspelled as "lanthron"., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Inlaid on page 2d in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the Gothic lantern, designed by Richard Bentley, that hung in the well of the staircase (Entrance) at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 17 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.
A young woman leans on a large terrestrial globe as she reads a manuscript. Behind her is a bust displayed on a table near a wall lined with well-stocked bookshelves
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Inscribed by Horace Walpole on label on former mount: "Elias Martin fec. 1771 a Swede came over in 1768, son of a cabinet maker.", Inscribed on label on former mount by a later hand: "Elias Martin 1771 from the Strawberry Hill Collection bought at the sale 1842.", Formerly hung in the "red bed chamber" at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, home of Horace Walpole. Sold at the 1842 London sale as one of the "Four humourous drawings, washed, perfectly unique of their kind, by Elias Martin.", and One of the companion paintings is also in the Lewis Walpole Library. See Martin's "The music room."
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Reading, Young women, Private libraries, Sculpture, and Globes
Wash drawing showing "The Little Gray Man" on his gibbet-wheel as a monkey seated on the chest of a corpse with the dying lovers, Leopold and Mary-Ann, below. Written on the verso, in ink, three verses from Matthew Gregory Lewis's "Tales of wonder, The little gray man" published in 1801
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Inscribed by the artist with the date and his initials in lower left corner., In an unidentified hand on verso: "Drawn by Bertie Greatheed w[hen] twenty years old for E[arl] N[...]"., and Trimmed on left and lower edges with loss of text on verso. Remnants of old album mounts on verso.