- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [March 1724]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Illustration to one of the episodes added by Gildon: Young Fantasio (Apuleius's Lucian) enters an Italian church where corrupt priests and gallants are celebrating the feast of St. Theresa
- Description:
- Title and imprint from Paulson., "Vol: I : P : 8"--Lower left, below image., A reversed copy of a print from the 1708 edition facing p. 5, with changes to the design by Hogarth: raised lectern and figures in foreground shifted., One of seven illustrations engraved for a modernized edition of Apuleius's The golden ass: Gildon, C. New metamorphosis. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 14.1 x 7.8 cm., and Date given in Steevens's hand: 1724. With other notes by Steevens that apply to the group of seven other illustrations mounted on same sheet.
- Publisher:
- Sam. Briscoe
- Subject (Name):
- Apuleius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The new metamorphosis. 2] [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.00.00.35+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An elegantly dressed young woman is seated in an armchair facing right reading a letter. The room is richly carpeted and furnished, with striped upholstery on the furniture and matching draperies. Through the window is visible a winter scene with ice skaters
- Description:
- Title from manuscript inscription on mount. and Date from Montgomery.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Ice skating, Reading, Rugs, Draperies, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The proposal] [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1825?]
- Call Number:
- 825.00.00.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print portrays a schoolroom with schoolmaster looking somewhat like Rowlandson's 'Dr. Syntax'.
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., Date of publication from unverified data in 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., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Child's -- Male costume: Schoolmaster -- Dr. Syntax -- Day school.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Education, Schools, Interiors, Classrooms, School children, and Teachers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The schoolmaster's return] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1723]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The interior of a seraglio shows a Turk with his harem, seated in a low hall that looks out to a garden. The women are served by eunuchs (the only other men allowed in the hall), one of whom peers in through the window to insure privacy. The master and his favorite are being cooled with a fan made of feathers as two other women dancing "after a wanton manner" accompanied by musicians. Figures are numbered; key provided in the text (see v. 1, p. 250-251).
- Description:
- Title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., One of fifteen illustrations engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., 'Tom. 1. No. XXII'--Upper right corner., and On page 5 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 25.5 x 34.8 cm.
- Publisher:
- A. de La Mottraye
- Subject (Geographic):
- Turkey. and Islamic Empire.
- Subject (Name):
- La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743.
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Clothing & dress, Eunuchs, Harems, Interiors, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The seraglio] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1723]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 80K(a) Box 225
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The interior of a seraglio shows a Turk with his harem, seated in a low hall that looks out to a garden. The women are served by eunuchs (the only other men allowed in the hall), one of whom peers in through the window to insure privacy. The master and his favorite are being cooled with a fan made of feathers as two other women dancing "after a wanton manner" accompanied by musicians. Figures are numbered; key provided in the text (see v. 1, p. 250-251).
- Description:
- Title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., One of fifteen illustrations engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., and 'Tom. 1. No. XXII'--Upper right corner.
- Publisher:
- A. de La Mottraye
- Subject (Geographic):
- Turkey. and Islamic Empire.
- Subject (Name):
- La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743.
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Clothing & dress, Eunuchs, Harems, Interiors, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The seraglio] [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1800]
- Call Number:
- 24 17 791P Copy 7
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 228. Castle of Otranto.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the characters Matilda and Theodore shown at center talking in a church, one on either side of the statue marking the tomb of Alphonso; Theodore wears full armor and Matilda wears an orange gown. Behind Matilda on the right is Manfred, who interrupts the conversation by reaching over Maltida's shoulder and stabbing her with the dagger held in his left hand. The interior of the church forms the background, with statues in alcoves along the wall on the right and a row of arched windows along the wall on the left
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date of production supplied by curator., and Mounted opposite page 228 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches, Interiors, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Homicides
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The stabbing of Matilda] [art original].
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817 artist
- Published / Created:
- [1789?]
- Call Number:
- SH Views C323 no.1 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 45
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor of the Tribune at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham
- Description:
- John Carter (1748-1817), British draughtsman and antiquarian., Title devised by curator. Formerly attributed to Edward Edwards., and Exhibited in 1789. See The Royal Academy of Arts / Algernon Graves. London : Henry Graves and Co., Ltd., 1905, p. 4.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Twickenham.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Houses and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The tribune at Strawberry Hill] [art original].
- Creator:
- Bates, L., active 1777-1779, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.00.00.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Musicians in a church, with vocalists singing from books in upper level and instrumentalists below, the latter labeled to indicate their nationalities, Prussia, Ger., Ital, Swiss, and on the far right Engl., possibly corresponding to caricature portrait of Dr. Arne. The bass player labeled Ger. may represent Karl Friedrich Abel. To the right the church congregation is indicated, with men in the foreground and women with the fashionable pyramidal hair styles seated in the upper gallery
- Description:
- Title and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title pencilled below image: The morning concert., and In laid to 30 x 34 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Abel, Karl Friedrich, 1723-1787. and Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778.
- Subject (Topic):
- Church musicians, Church music, Musicians, Churches, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Vocal and instrumental music in a church] [graphic]