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1. [Transformation playing cards] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 97 Shelved in Object Room A:A
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A collection of hand-drawn transformation playing cards using the suit symbols incorporated in the sketches of people in a variety of scenes, some clearly English, others continental. Two examples are a fireside scene illustrating a mother and child (and two others) seated in front of a fireplace with a hanging cauldron, and an illustration of an amorous couple enjoying a dance as a violinist plays stage left. The cards depict both black and white characters, all of whom are wealthy or of high status, including soldiers, bishops, and men and women in fashionable dress. At the top of one card above the head of a man who reads from a sheet as he addresses a woman who looks down demurely, are the words "Mio ben.". On the verso of two cards are inscriptions in English. The first shows a figure in Shakespearean-era costume on the front and on the back, a quote from Twelfth night (Act II, Scene 5): "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” A second shows a couple sitting across from each other with an empty table between and on the back three stanzas from William Cowper’s The Diverting History of John Gilpin, first published in 1782
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger. and In a later envelope inscribed 'Mlle. de Bernardy' and 'N. Anderson'.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Playing cards, Card games, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Transformation playing cards] [art original].
2. [View of Piazza della Signoria in Florence with the Grand Duke's military guard] [art original].
- Creator:
- Patch, Thomas, 1725-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1782]
- Call Number:
- Drawings P294 no. 1 Box D205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A small audience sitting on benches on a tribune next to the equestrian statue of Cosimo I de' Medici in Piazza della Signoria, watching a military parade of the guards of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Lorena (1765-1790), son of the Empress Maria Theresa of Habsburg and brother of Joseph II. The soldiers, forming an L-shaped cordon and led by four battalion officers, are recognizable by their tricorns and the bayonets. At the center of the square, under the grand building of Palazzo Vecchio, stands a troop of drummers. Figures in the the foreground include a group of cavalrymen bearing a banner and followed by a cart on the right; a lady and gentleman waiting for a landau carriage at center; and a figure, maybe a soldier on look-out, watching the scene in Palazzo Uguccioni's shadow on the left
- Description:
- Title and artist attribution from dealer's description. and Date based on artist's death date.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Florence (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Piazza della Signoria (Florence, Italy), and Palazzo vecchio (Florence, Italy),
- Subject (Topic):
- Plazas, Equestrian statues, Military parades & ceremonies, Spectators, and Carriages & coaches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [View of Piazza della Signoria in Florence with the Grand Duke's military guard] [art original].