- Published / Created:
- [1843?]
- Call Number:
- 843.00.00.46
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Text within image: Hilloa! Ben here's the rigger for you, may hap he'll find the arms you lost at Trafalgar. Shiver my timbers! I wonder if he finds legs.
- Publisher:
- Published by Alfred E. Harrison, 5 White Hart Ct., Lombard St., Gambart & Co., and Printed by P. Jerrard, 206 Fleet Street
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A lucky discovery [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Bouchot, Frédéric, 1798- publisher
- Published / Created:
- [1841?]
- Call Number:
- 841.00.00.21
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., "Chez Aubert & du Journal la caricature au magazin de caricautres, Galerie Véro-Dodat", and Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 11.
- Publisher:
- Chez Aubert and Lith. de Delaporte St. de Langtamé
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > La liquoriste [graphic]
- Creator:
- Debucourt, Philibert-Louis, 1755-1832, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1811?]
- Call Number:
- 811.00.00.48+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins on two sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tailors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > La tailleur [graphic]
- Creator:
- Formentin, Melle, lithographer
- Published / Created:
- [1845?]
- Call Number:
- 845.00.00.42
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Angels of darkness
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
- Publisher:
- Chez Aubert, Galerie Vero-Dodat and Engelmann, Graf, Coindet et Cie., 14 Newmann Street, Oxfort St.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Les anges des ténebres The angels of darkness / [graphic] =
- Creator:
- Pouget, Jean Henri Prosper, -1769, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1769]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents P872 no. 1 Box 110
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Half-length, oval portrait in a square, shown in profile. The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence tentatively identifies her as Mme. Frotier-de-la-Messalière. See: The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 6, pages 344-347, 368 and v. 41, page 350
- Description:
- Title engraved in image, below portrait., Also signed in image: "Pouget delineavit et sculp.", "Pl. Ire"--Upper left corner., Quote from Milton below title, in English and French: "Grace in all her steps, heav'n in her eye, In every gesture Dignity and Love ...", The Lewis Walpole Library impression: Horace Walpole's note below imprint reads: "Mistress of George Visc. Bury, afterwards Earl of Albemarle.", and Sheet trimmed?
- Publisher:
- Pouget?
- Subject (Name):
- Frotier-de-la-Messalière, Marie-Élisabeth,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Milady Countesse of Bury [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1787]
- Call Number:
- 787.00.00.15+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A 1787 fencing match between a man and a woman in the elegant rooms of Carlton House, London. In the audience stands the Prince of Wales who had arranged this fencing demonstration between Mademoiselle d'Eon (right), and Monsieur de Saint George (left). Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (1728-1810), known as the Chevalier d'Eon, who lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman. The fencer on the left is Joseph de Bologne de Saint-Georges or the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), who was the son of a wealthy plantation owner in the French West Indies colony of Guadeloupe and one of his African slaves named Anne
- Alternative Title:
- Assault and Fencing match
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., After the painting by Victor Marie Picot., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark; design cropped.
- Publisher:
- Published by Corbeau at Paris and by Robinde at London
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810., and Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne, chevalier de, 1745-1799.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dueling, Fencing, and Spectators
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The assaut, or, Fencing match which took place at Carlton House, on the 9th of April 1787 between Mademoiselle La Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont and Monsieur de Saint George. In the presence of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, several of the nobility & many eminent fencing masters of London. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Guttenberg, Carl Gottlieb, 1743-1790, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1778]
- Call Number:
- 778.00.15.01++ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Anglo-American revolution
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Proof with title. Cf. No. 5490 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Place of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Adaptation, in reverse, of The oracle by John Dixon., Temporary local subject terms: Acts: Stamp Act -- America: tea -- Taxation: tea -- Emblems: France as a cock --Personifications: Time -- Europe -- Asia -- Africa -- America -- Switzerland -- Holland -- Lighting: magic lantern -- Flags: American flag with serpent -- French prints., and "No. 126" added in an unknown hand at top center of sheet.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The tea-tax-tempest, or, The Anglo-American revolution [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1900?]
- Call Number:
- Portraits F831 no. 1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Benjamin Franklin performing his famous experiment of June 1752 in which he attached a key to a kite and flew it in a thunderstorm in order to prove that lightning was electricity. Almost allegorical in presentation, Franklin is shown seated on clouds with cherub-like figures assisting him on the right in the backgroun, his red cape blowing in the wind against a stormy sky
- Description:
- Date and title taken from impression at the Philadelphia Museum of Art., Based on the Benjamiin West oil painting now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art., and Embossed letters at lower left corner: Cercle Librairie estampes encircling initials RTN.
- Publisher:
- Published by Godefroy Mayer, No. 15, Rue Pigalle
- Subject (Name):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790,
- Subject (Topic):
- Electricity and Inventors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Benjamin Franklin drawing electricity from the sky] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Landseer, Thomas, 1795-1880, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1827]
- Call Number:
- 827.12.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "In a grassy glade an ape lies as if asleep. His desolate mate sits on her haunches, watching him. They do not wear clothes. Below: '"-- now will canker Sorrow eat my bud, / And chase the native beauty from his cheek," Shakespeare.' ['King John', III. iv.]"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue. and Plate from: Monkey-ana or Men in miniature ... by Thomas Landseer.
- Publisher:
- Published Decr. 1, 1827 by Moon, Boys & Graves, 6 Pall Mall and Chez Piers Bernard Boulevar des Italiens
- Subject (Topic):
- Apes and Grief
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The widow] [graphic]