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19. Pondus antiquum librale, ex aere factum ... [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mynde, James, 1702-1771, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1745]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of several antiquarian objects, five of which have Roman numeral numbering above. These include a small eagle statue of bronze (II); an ewer of bronze (III); and a small votive foot of bronze (IV). All were part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
- Description:
- Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., "Ex aere" etched in lower right corner, below object numbered "IV"., "Tab. XX"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 186 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 23.2 x 19.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- R. Manby and H.S. Cox
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical antiquities, Sculpture, and Pitchers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Pondus antiquum librale, ex aere factum ... [graphic]
20. [A 'coquet sphinx'] [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1785?]
- Call Number:
- 335 T
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 51 in Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of a sphinx with a woman's head, facing right, sitting on a pedestal
- Description:
- Title devised by curator, taken from the footnote on page 51 of: Walpole, H. Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Strawberry Hill, 1785., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalogue record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted to 18 x 24 cm., and Bound in opposite page 51 of Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ..., in a volume with the binder's title: Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture and Sphinxes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A 'coquet sphinx'] [graphic]
21. [A small bust in terra cotta of Nicolo Poussin's wife] [art original]
- Creator:
- Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of a bust of Anne-Marie (Dughet) Poussin, wife of Nocolo Poussin, executed in terra-cotta by Fiammingo. This sculpture, which came from Pierre-Jean Mariette's collection, was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 215 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A small bust in terra cotta of Nicolo Poussin's wife] [art original]
22. [Apollo] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bisschop, Jan de, 1628-1671, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1670]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Apollo Belvedere facing left seen from the front."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., First three letters of the name "P.P. Doncker" in artist's signature form a monogram., Signed with the monogram of printmaker Jan de Bisschop. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1901,1022.2531.5., Place and date of publication from the volume in which the print was published., Plate from: Signorvm vetervm icones. [Amsterdam], [167-?]., Plate numbered "4" in upper right corner., and Mounted on page 140 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.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Apollo (Deity),
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Apollo] [graphic]
23. [Bust of Henry VII] [art original].
- Creator:
- 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:
- Wash drawing depicting the stone bust of Henry VII, supposedly a model for his tomb designed by Torrigiano, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Star Chamber at Strawberry Hill
- Alternative Title:
- Henry VII OB: MDIX
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Written in ink within pedestal at bottom of image: Henry VII OB: MDIX., 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 105 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Bust of Henry VII] [art original].
24. [Courtyard of the Royal Exchange, London] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Nicholls, Sutton, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1729]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Page 137. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The courtyard of the Royal Exchange, London, with numerous male figures, most wearing hats and carrying canes; the statue of Charles II in the centre."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 137 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685, and Royal Exchange (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Merchants' exchanges, Commercial facilities, Courtyards, Colonnades, Sculpture, and Crowds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Courtyard of the Royal Exchange, London] [graphic]
25. [Moses] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bisschop, Jan de, 1628-1671, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1671]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Moses sitting looking at left, he is wearing a garment, at right a book under his arm; after Michelangelo."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Signed with the monogram of printmaker Jan de Bisschop. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1896,0528.1.15., Place and date of publication from the volume in which the print was published., Plate from: Paradigmata graphices variorum artificum. Hagae-Comitis, 1671., Plate numbered "15" in upper right corner., and Mounted on page 140 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.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Moses (Biblical leader)
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Moses] [graphic]
26. [Statue of Moses, from the Tomb of Pope Julius II] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Beatrizet, Nicolas, 1507?-1570?, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1520 and 1565]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Figure of Moses, on a pedestal in a niche; sitting, looking away to right, right hand twined in his long beared with the wrist resting on a book propped beside him. On the pedestal are three lines of text beginning: Moysis ingens ex marmore simulacrum ...
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker, place of production, and date range for production from the Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue, museum no.: DYCE.1169., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom right., and Mounted on page 124 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.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Moses (Biblical leader)
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Statue of Moses, from the Tomb of Pope Julius II] [graphic].