- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 February 1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.02.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An elderly man plays a harp on a hillside surrounded by couples and children. In the distance are mountains and a tower
- Alternative Title:
- Harpist in the mountains, the Welsh bard
- Description:
- Title from the first line of the four-line poem printed below the image., Title continues: "... That not a mountain rears his head unsung. And many an amorous, many a humourous lay, which many a bard had changed many a day.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Frontispiece to: Jones, E. Bardic Museum. Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh Bards, v. 2. London : For the author, 1802.
- Publisher:
- Published according to act of Parliament Feb. 20, 1802 by Ed. Jones, in Lord Steward's Court-Yard, St. James's Place
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Couples, Harps, Mountains, and Musicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "The muse so oft her silver harp has strung ..." [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 March 1786]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 56. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A group in a garden room listening to a girl read, seated in the centre with the book in her lap, two woman sitting on either side of her, one patting a dog at right, the other with solemn expression, which has been noticed by a man standing against the wall at right, gesturing towards her, another standing directly behind her looks on with concern, a child sitting on the floor beside a large sleeping dog, his eyes raised up; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse, from William Shenstone's ballad 'Jemmy Dawson', engraved below title: Come listen to my mournful tale, ye tender hearts and lovers dear; nor will you scorn to heave a sigh, nor need you blush to shed a tear. Vide Shenston., Dedication engraved above imprint statement: To the Countess Sutherland this plate after an original Drawing by Mr. Bunbury, in her Ladyship's possession, is with the greatest respect dedicated by her Ladyship's most obliged humble servant, James Bretherton., and Mounted on page 56 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- Published 3 March 1786 by James Bretherton, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Shenstone, William, 1714-1763.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Children, Courtship, Dogs, and Reading
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tale of love [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1789]
- Call Number:
- 789.07.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An older man sits under a tree and plays with two little girls and a boy. A small dog is trying to play with a doll one of the girls holds in her lap
- Description:
- Title from item. and Plate numbered '253' in lower left corner.
- Publisher:
- Published 1st July 1789 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Dolls, Children, and Grandparents
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A visit to the grandfather [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1789]
- Call Number:
- 789.12.01.02.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A woman visiting her grandmother with two children, standing on the right ready to take the little child the grandmother holds on her knee, while the child holds out a hat to receive a bird's nest offered by a young boy; a little truck lying in the foreground; corner of a building behind the figures and trees beyond. On the shelf to the left of the grandmother are two books and a pair of spectables
- Description:
- Title from item., Plate numbered '254' in lower left corner., and Companion print: A visit to the grandfather.
- Publisher:
- Published 1st Decr. 1789 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Birds, Children, Eyeglasses, Families, Grandparents, and Nests
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A visit to the grandmother [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1789]
- Call Number:
- 789.12.01.02.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A woman visiting her grandmother with two children, standing on the right ready to take the little child the grandmother holds on her knee, while the child holds out a hat to receive a bird's nest offered by a young boy; a little truck lying in the foreground; corner of a building behind the figures and trees beyond. On the shelf to the left of the grandmother are two books and a pair of spectables
- Description:
- Title from item., Plate reworked from the earlier state which also published by Sayer under the same title and on the same day., Companion print: A visit to the grandfather., and Plate numbered '254' in lower left corner.
- Publisher:
- Published 1st Decr. 1789 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Birds, Children, Eyeglasses, Families, Grandparents, and Nests
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A visit to the grandmother [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1750]
- Call Number:
- 750.00.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "In a room, a group watching as a man sitting at a round table builds a house of cards, which tumbles down as a figure leans in at right, the man and a man standing in outdoor clothes behind looks at him with dismay; in the right foreground two young children build their own house on a small table; doors open onto garden in background."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Publisher inferred from another print in the series: The king and miller of Mansfied., One of a series of engravings after paintings by Francis Hayman for the ballroom at Vauxhall Gardens in 1743., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting i`n loss of imprint.
- Publisher:
- Robert Sayer
- Subject (Topic):
- Chairs, Children, Dogs, Drawing rooms, Furniture, Interiors, Playing cards, Screens, Tables, and Toys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Building houses with cards [graphic] : from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens
- Creator:
- Truchy, L., 1731-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.35+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a room, a small group of women and children watch as a man sitting at a round table builds a house of cards, which tumbles down as a figure leans in at the right; a man standing in outdoor clothes behind looks at him with dismay. On a chair on the right a lapdog jumps on the woman standing between the two young boys; in the left foreground two little girls build their own house on a small table; doors open onto garden in background; after a painting by Hayman for Vauxhall Gardens
- Description:
- Publication date from Carington Bowles's entry in Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered in upper right corner: V. 6.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil [sic], and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Cards, Chairs, Children, Dolls, Furnishings, Games, Interiors, Screens, Tables, and Upholstery
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Building houses with cards engraved after the original painting in Vaux Hall Garden / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 August 1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 5. Bunbury
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A woman seated in profile to right, holding a handkerchief on her laps with both hands; a little girl standing next to her, almost in profile to left, putting both hands on the woman's lap and looking up towards her; to right, an older girl seated, holding a book open on her lap with both hands, looking up to the sky; to left, a boy seated, in profile to left, blowing a trumpet; in a roundel; after H Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title from text below image., State with dedication added above imprint statement. For an earlier state lacking this text, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.953., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of text below title: The shade of my mother hovers round me, when in a still evening I sit in the midst of her children, I wish that she could look down upon us, and see that I fulfil the promise I made her to be a mother to them. Sorrows of Werter, Dedication etched above imprint statement: To the Honble. Miss Grenville, this print after an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. is with the greatest respect dedicated by her most obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson., Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther., and Mounted on page 14 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd August 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Trumpets, and Books
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Charlotte [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 April 1772]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 43. Bunbury
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young woman standing on a mountain-top, looking away to left, her hands tucked under her apron, wearing a gown with a laced bodice, fichu and a soft hat, with a shaggy dog beside her to right and a little boy chasing a butterfly in front of her, with a church at the foot of mountains in the background to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 5 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs April 30th, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy.
- Subject (Topic):
- Peasants, Clothing & dress, Children, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Contadina della Savoja [graphic]
- Creator:
- Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 April 1789]
- Call Number:
- 789.04.07.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A domestic scene in a dressing room with a maid assisting a lady as she dresses, placing ornaments in her mistress's hair. A young girl sitting in a chair reads to a little boy who leans on her knee and looks lovingly into her face. A hat box rests on a high boy (left); another hat box and hair accessories sit on a table and chair to the right
- Description:
- Title engraved below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published April the 7th, 1789, by Ino. Matthews, No. 441 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Boudoirs, Boxes, Children, Clothes chests, Draperies, Dressing tables, Floor coverings, Hats, Reading, and Wallpapers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dressing room à l'Anglaise [graphic]