Title below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874, and Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874,
An auctioneer with gavel in raised hand presides over a crowd of bidders wearing tall top hats and long coats as they frantically scribble notes and examine items indistinclty depicted in the background
Description:
Title from a later caption inscribed in graphite pencil below image., Date based on the date of the sale of Horace Walpole's collections at Strawberry Hill., Curatorial note: The scene in the drawing may not depict The Strawberry Hill sale due to a lack of specific details., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Auctions, Auctioneers, and Gavels
Cursive bookhand. Bound in original limp vellum. and Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England during the fourth quarter of the sixteenth century.
Description:
Binding: original limp vellum, cut away except for spine., Ex libris John Plimly. Ex libris John Jones. Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Inscription on f. 53r of John Jones of Bala, 1815: "John Jones Bala Meirionydd Sydd yn gwneuthur rhodd o hwn Lyfr gell Ysgoldy Iesu Chwefror 10fed 1815 wedi ei gael gerllaw y Bala gan hen offeiriad.", Inscription on f. 56v: "John Plimly his Booke.", Inscription on f. 57r: "Mary Mall, 1660.", and On 57r: ""Mary Mall ... her book ... 1660
Subject (Name):
Jones, John,--of Bala--1815--Ownership, Mall, Mary--Ownership, and Plimly, John--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--16th century and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
One large pencil drawing showing new designs for the wings of Chute's home in Hampshire. On the verso are two smaller sketches of the same
Description:
John Chute (1701-1776), English architect and connoisseur of the arts and literature, member of Horace Walpole's 'committee of taste.' and Originally laid in: Slight architectural sketches by John Chute, Box 1.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Chute, John, 1701-1776 and Vyne (Hampshire, England)
Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within the plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Elections: Boston, Lincolnshire, 1790 -- Petitions -- Aldermen -- Gwydyr, Peter Burrell, Baron, 1754-1820 -- Glass: wine bottles -- Wine glasses -- Furniture: tables.
The fourteen men in British Museum satire no. 7693, with the same numbers and identifications, stand in a street or market-place; their expressions and gestures show rage or disgust. The lawyer, '13', holds the 'London Eveng Post' and tells the bad news
Alternative Title:
Aldermen Common-Council &c. of Boston in Lincolnshire on the parade receiving the news of their petition being thrown out
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Published in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 29 June 1878., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries.
Frontispiece. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Arms and quarterings of Sir Robert Walpole, Knight of the Garter
Description:
Title from note above image, in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted., With a numbered list of the families whose arms are represented, written on either side of image., and Mounted as the frontispiece in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., Walpole, Catherine, Lady, 1681 or 1682-1737., and Walpole family.
A table with a bowl of presumably alcohol stands in a green room with paintings hanging on the wall. Standing around a table, three men raise their glasses in a toast. To the right of the table, a man assists another who is vomiting
Description:
Title inscribed by artist in ink below image., Signed by the artist, lower left in image: W. Goulding des., and Inscription in pencil on verso: [Here's] health to all good soldiers.
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Intoxication, Soldiers, British, and Vomiting