Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title devised by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., Date based on James Boswell's reference to his visit to Richmond on 17 May 1781 and seeing Lady Diana Beauclerk working on paintings from Spenser's Faerie Queene., One of a series of five illustrations., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808. and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Title devised by cataloger., Date based other drawings signed, dated, and executed by F. James for Harrison and Co., and Profile of a man in pencil on left margin.
Two men fight with swords as a woman in her bed looks on in horror. Possibly the scene where Zeluco arrives in Nerina's bedroom unannounced and catches her with another lover
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed in ink lower left: F. James del. 1803., A partial wash oval on verso., and As laid in the folder: a second sheet with graphite pencil notes for the engraver? "ABCDE G R W 17056 proportion 3 x 5 scale 1/8" - 1".
A group of drawings that illustrate select scenes from Laurence Sterne's novel The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. The drawings vary in level of detail and completeness; one is a slight pencil sketch, two are more detailed drawings in pen and ink over pencil, and three are elaborate drawings in ink and wash. The drawings are bound in as either the frontispiece or before the frontispiece, one in each of the six volumes of the eighth edition of the work. Several of the compositions were later engraved, presumably from larger designs by Bunbury
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., The drawings are unsigned, and only one has a title written at the bottom., Bound in H.W. Bunbury's copy of: Sterne, L. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770., In slipcase., and With H.W. Bunbury's original drawings (cataloged separately) bound in; also with verses in unidentified hand on end-papers of v. 4.