The scene in the church after Manfred has stabbed his daughter Mathilda. She lies on a cot as Theodore holds her head in his hands; a monk with a crucifix in his hand also attends her. Behind the monk, Manfred with arms crossed against his chest looks down in anguish. In the background (right) the right arm of the statue of Alfonso the Good points down accusatorily at the scene unfolding below his tomb
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Date based on Horace Walpole's letter (dated 22 February 1796) to Bertie Greatheed's father in which he admires his son's four drawings that were inspired by his reading of The Castle of Otranto. All four drawings are bound in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of The Castle of Otranto (Lewis Walpole Library 49 3729).
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Homicides, Monks, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Drawing of the monument Nicholas Stone Senior (1586-1647).
Description:
Title devised be cataloger., Inscription in pencil, within design of the monument encirling effigy: Nicholas Stone, sculp. & architect, &c., Inscription in pencil, within design of the monument below effigy: 24 Aug 1642 departed this life., Inscription in pencil, within design at the base of the monument: H.S. posuit., Inscription in pencil, lower half of sheet: This monument was fixed in the north wall of the Parish Church of St. Martins in the Fields., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Stone in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 23., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Subject (Name):
Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647, and Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647
A flirtatious young couple under a pear tree: The male suitor is half-climbing the tree with one hand supporting himself on a branch and the other dropping freshly picked pears into the upraised apron of his companion. The couple stare lovingly into each others eyes and a the man's walking stick and hat rest on the ground off to the side
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Artist and date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Gray wash drawing of a charming bucolic landscape. In the foreground a small group of three individuals rest along the banks of calm stream while farther in the distance a second group congregrates and a hazy silhouette of buildings peers over the treeline
Portrait of George Griffith after Robert White, half length in an oval, long hair, wearing bands and gown, holding a book; curtain in the background to left, bookshelf to right, with inscribed motto 'Most gladly would I Learne & gladly Teach'.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local record., Copy of 17th century engraving by Robert White. Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits, v. 2, p. 390., and For further information, consult library staff.
Framed in an oval, the writer George Saville Carey is shown looking to his left while holding a mirror up in his extended right arm and holding a theater mask in his left arm, bent at the elbow
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
Four pastoral figures. A man holding a tool stands next to a woman carrying a sieve. She is looking at a woman and a child sitting down
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Signed in lower right: DB., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., and For further information, consult library staff.
A drawing of a snuff box made from a Scottish ram's horn
Description:
Title devised by currator., Inscription in pencil In Thomas Kirgate's hand, upper right corner, above image: "Inscription: This trifle given by Sir James Calquhoun of Luss, Bart. to the Honble. Horace Walpole as a mark of respect.", Date based on letter from Horace Walpole to Sir James Calquhuon, thanking him for his gift of the "beautiful goat's horn ... with the inscription with which you have been pleased to overhonour me." See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 42, p. 322-3., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Unidentified artist., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Wash drawing depicting several ships just offshore. Three men in a small boat row towards a ship that looks to have run aground; a man stands on the sandbar(?) beside the incapacitated ship with his arm raised
Alternative Title:
Gale
Description:
Title from local catalog card; alternative title from the print after which the drawing was made., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Drawn after a print entitled "A gale," engraved by P.C. Canot after a painting by van de Velde, which was published by John Boydell on 1 November 1773. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0609.1656., Date of production from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso: Charles Gore 1781 from a print after an original by Vandevelde in the possession of Mr. Pratt, engrav'd by Canot 1773., Formerly laid in at page 103 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Wash drawing depicting several ships just offshore. Three men in a small boat row towards a ship that looks to have run aground; a man stands on the sandbar(?) beside the incapacitated ship with his arm raised
Alternative Title:
Gale
Description:
Title from local catalog card; alternative title from the print after which the drawing was made., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Drawn after a print entitled "A gale," engraved by P.C. Canot after a painting by van de Velde, which was published by John Boydell on 1 November 1773. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0609.1656., Date of production from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso: Charles Gore 1781 from a print after an original by Vandevelde in the possession of Mr. Pratt, engrav'd by Canot 1773., Formerly laid in at page 103 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.