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1. Club night [art original]
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1785]
- Call Number:
- Drawings B87 no. 26 Box D300
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Five men accompanied by two dogs leisurly sit around a small table in a tavern smoking long-stemmed tobacco pipes and drinking while one of their number squeezes juice and pulp from a fruit into a large punch bowl resting on the table
- Description:
- Title and artist's signature inscribed in the artist's hand below image. and Sheet trimmed to oval shape.
- Subject (Topic):
- Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, Peg legs, Tobacco pipes, Leisure, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Club night [art original]
2. Design (not executed) for the antichapel at the Vine [sic] in Hampshire [art original].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1750]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 34b Box 3
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An elevation drawing of the entrance end of John Chute's estate, The Vyne, drawn before 25 August 1757 as referenced in a letter from Horace Walpole to Bentley. Another drawing, also not executed, was mounted below on the same leaf: Another side for the antichapel at the Vine [sic]. On the verso of this drawing is a small pencil sketch of a clock tower
- Alternative Title:
- Design (not executed) for the antichapel at the Vyne in Hampshire, Design for an antichapel at Mr. Chute's at the Vine [sic] in Hampshire by Rich. Bentley 1750, and Design for an antichapel at Mr. Chute's at the Vyne in Hampshire by Rich. Bentley 1750
- Description:
- Title written in ink in Horace Walpole's hand on mount., Added title written in ink in Horace Walpole's hand on verso of drawing: Another side for the antichapel at the Vyne., See Horace Walpole's correspondence with George Montague 25 August 1757 (Yale edition, Horace Walpole's correspondence, vol. 9, p. 216)., and Formerly mounted at the bottom of leaf 34 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
- Subject (Name):
- Vyne (Hampshire, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Design (not executed) for the antichapel at the Vine [sic] in Hampshire [art original].
3. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others [art original].
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1757]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581
- Container / Volume:
- v.1
- Image Count:
- 53
- Abstract:
- A large portfolio assembled by Horace Walpole from various lots he acquired at the Vertue sale 16 March 1757 including rare prints and drawings, among which are Holbein drawings. In addition to the portfolio, is a small volume of eight portrait drawings taken from this collection and later acquired separately
- Alternative Title:
- Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others
- Description:
- Title from item. Title from Hazen: Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others., Two volumes and one solander box containing a drawing housed separately., and Some of these, about fifty, are now mounted and rebound in red morocco, with Horace Walpole's manuscript title-page preserved. Bookplate 1. Press-mark D.3.13 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; moved to the Round Tower. Bookplate of William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings and Portraits
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others [art original].
4. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others [art original].
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1757]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581
- Container / Volume:
- v.2
- Image Count:
- 16
- Abstract:
- A large portfolio assembled by Horace Walpole from various lots he acquired at the Vertue sale 16 March 1757 including rare prints and drawings, among which are Holbein drawings. In addition to the portfolio, is a small volume of eight portrait drawings taken from this collection and later acquired separately
- Alternative Title:
- Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others
- Description:
- Title from item. Title from Hazen: Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others., Two volumes and one solander box containing a drawing housed separately., and Some of these, about fifty, are now mounted and rebound in red morocco, with Horace Walpole's manuscript title-page preserved. Bookplate 1. Press-mark D.3.13 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; moved to the Round Tower. Bookplate of William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings and Portraits
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others [art original].
5. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others [art original].
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1757]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581
- Image Count:
- 60
- Abstract:
- A large portfolio assembled by Horace Walpole from various lots he acquired at the Vertue sale 16 March 1757 including rare prints and drawings, among which are Holbein drawings. In addition to the portfolio, is a small volume of eight portrait drawings taken from this collection and later acquired separately
- Alternative Title:
- Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others
- Description:
- Title from item. Title from Hazen: Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others., Two volumes and one solander box containing a drawing housed separately., and Some of these, about fifty, are now mounted and rebound in red morocco, with Horace Walpole's manuscript title-page preserved. Bookplate 1. Press-mark D.3.13 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; moved to the Round Tower. Bookplate of William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings and Portraits
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others [art original].
6. Slight sketches of architecture by John Chute, Esq., of the Vine in Hampshire,1753 [art original].
- Creator:
- Chute, John, 1701-1776
- Published / Created:
- [1753]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3490
- Image Count:
- 173
- Abstract:
- A collection of approximately 130 drawings and sketches by John Chute and one etching and engraving entitled Chaucer's Grove by P. Mazell (artist James Pettit Andrews) given to Horace Walpole, for his renovation of Strawberry Hill, bound in one volume and with an additional 23 loose leaves, including sketches for the Gallery, Round Tower, and one inspired by a doorcase in Dugdale's St. Paul's for the presses in the Library. Some of the drawings have been annotated by Walpole and/or Thomas Kirgate
- Alternative Title:
- Original drawings and sketches
- Description:
- Title from ms. title page in Horace Walpole's hand., Title from Hazen: Original drawings and sketches., In English., John Chute (1701-1776), English architect and connoisseur of the arts and literature, member of Horace Walpole's 'Strawberry committee.', Bound in original marbled boards., Inscribed on front fly leaf: "Lady Waldegrave from W.V. Harcourt, July 5, 1887.", On front pastedown, Carlingford's bookplate., Marble boards with half-leather. Written in ink in unidentified hand on front cover: Strawberry Hill (drawings). Paper lable on spine: "33.", The 3 volumes consist of 1 album and 2 cases., and Original marbled boards. Second Strawberry Hill Sale fleuron used as bookplate. Press-mark K.13, but moved to the Closet. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; probably kept in the Glass Closet until 1790. Inscribed on the fly-leaf: 'Lady Waldegrave from W.V. Harcourt, July 6, 1867.' Bookplate of Lord Carlingford, who married Lady Waldegrave in 1863.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Country homes, and Buildings, structures, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Slight sketches of architecture by John Chute, Esq., of the Vine in Hampshire,1753 [art original].
7. [Drawing with three perspectives of a drum] [art original].
- Creator:
- Wyck, John, 1640-1702, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1702]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3567.3+ (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Horace Walpole's note beneath image: Wyke., Note on verso: "Kaye Dowland 1872.", Note on verso, in unknown hand, "No. 219.", Illegible text in image., Formerly mounted and hinged, with residual glue and paper on four corners of the recto., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Drums (Musical instruments)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawing with three perspectives of a drum] [art original].
8. [Macbeth] [art original].
- Creator:
- Wright, John Massey, 1777-1866, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1866]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W947 no. 1 Box D180
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Wash and pencil drawing depicting a scene from Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Artist from local card catalog record., and On the verso of the sheet: The two gentlemen of Verona.
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Macbeth] [art original].