Drawing of a shepherd, full length, facing left and looking slightly upward; bald, with a long beard; barefoot, wearing a robe; holding a staff in his right hand, his left hand partially outstretched
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 105 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Title from contemporary manuscript note in ink below image., 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., Number "1" etched above image., 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.
On the left, in profile looking left, the head and shoulders of a man with a laurel wreath around his head, probably Dante. On the right the head and shoulders of a man with a tonsure and a friar's habit, possibly Thomas Aquinas
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Approximate date assigned by curator.
Subject (Name):
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, and Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274,
Ink drawing depicting a prisoner, possibly Saint Laurence of Rome, about to be burned over coals by Roman soldiers. The prisoner's hands are bound behind his back and he is naked apart from a loin cloth; a soldier on foot grasps him from behind while two mounted soldiers look on. Four other figures surround the prisoner, one crouching at the prisoner's feet and spreading coals. A statue of a seated figure next to an eagle is visible in the upper right, probably an architectual element of a building in the background
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Signed in ink with the artist's initials in lower right corner of mount; also signed on verso with the same initials., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly laid in at page 153 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Ink drawing depicting a prisoner, possibly Saint Laurence of Rome, about to be burned over coals by Roman soldiers. The prisoner's hands are bound behind his back and he is naked apart from a loin cloth; a soldier on foot grasps him from behind while two mounted soldiers look on. Four other figures surround the prisoner, one crouching at the prisoner's feet and spreading coals. A statue of a seated figure next to an eagle is visible in the upper right, probably an architectual element of a building in the background
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Signed in ink with the artist's initials in lower right corner of mount; also signed on verso with the same initials., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly laid in at page 153 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Title devised by curator., Place of creation and date tentatively assigned by cataloger., Unsigned., and This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Drawing of a young man, full length, twisted in preparation to throw a ball(?) with two cords attached(?) that is held in his left hand; with medium-length hair; naked except for a cloth tied around his shoulder and draped across his hips
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 109 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Two Asian figures, a woman and a girl, stand facing each other beneath tall bamboo plants; they wear traditional attire, perhaps that of China
Description:
Title from local card catalog record., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., Image partially cut out of sheet; the blank parts of the sheet have been trimmed away from the top half of the octagonal decorative border, and from around the figures and bamboo plants., Laid in at page 377 in Horace Walpole's copy of Matthew Prior's Poems on several occasions., and Temporary local subject terms: ?China: Social life and customs.