A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London : Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785).
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Also bound in are three prints described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum; these are cataloged separately., and Original boards with new back but old hand-lettered label, uncut. With Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP2 later state) on half-title page. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron. Press-mark R.10, but apparently moved from the Round Tower to the Library in the Offices. Not in Walpole's Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of the Earl of Orford (1813-94), imitated from Horace Walpole's, and bookplate of John A. Spoor. Also with bookplate "AHA".
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake., Mounted on page 162 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 14.6 x 22 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in pencil in lower right corner: Some of the figures in the boxes are different from those in Mr. Walpole's picture.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake., and On page 235 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: plate mark 14.5 x 21.9 cm, on sheet 15.4 x 22.7 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Title etched below image., Imprint and date from Paulson., The portrait is actually of the painter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, copied from G. White's mezzotint (after G. Kneller). See Paulson., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for T.W. for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, J. Knapton and 15 others
Subject (Name):
Monnoyer, Jean Baptiste, approximately 1636-1699, and Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Title etched below image., Imprint and date from Paulson., The portrait is actually of the painter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, copied from G. White's mezzotint (after G. Kneller). See Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Sheet partially trimmed. Tipped on the t.p. for the work, which has contemporary annotations on verso.
Publisher:
Printed for T.W. for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, J. Knapton and 15 others
Subject (Name):
Monnoyer, Jean Baptiste, approximately 1636-1699, and Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
according to act of Parliament, 1750.
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character of Mrs Riot (the 'Fine Lady') in Garrick's 'Lethe'; three-quarters to left, looking to front, carrying a lapdog in her right arm, which she rests on the panniers of her skirts, her left hand catching the fabric of her dress; in wooded landscape by the riverside, boating party behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.185., Two lines of text below title: Shew me to the pump room then, fellow; where's the company, I die in solitude &c., "Price 6 d."--Following imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 76 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 32.9 x 22 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature, imprint statement, and price from bottom edge., Contemporary annotation in pencil in lower left corner: Worlidge delin., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
according to act of Parliament, 1750.
Call Number:
Portraits C642 no. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character of Mrs Riot (the 'Fine Lady') in Garrick's 'Lethe'; three-quarters to left, looking to front, carrying a lapdog in her right arm, which she rests on the panniers of her skirts, her left hand catching the fabric of her dress; in wooded landscape by the riverside, boating party behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.185., Two lines of text below title: Shew me to the pump room then, fellow; where's the company, I die in solitude &c., "Price 6 d."--Following imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 36.7 x 25.2 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Volume 1, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 99. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Charlotte Walpole dressed as a sentry at Cox Heath in her role as Nancy in R.B. Sheridan's 'The Camp', standing on a hill above a military camp at left which she points towards, a cabin with letters 'CW' on the side and smoking chimney behind; after Bunbury, published state after change of title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate originally published with the title "Miss Walpole" and without the verses below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,66.33., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: My Nancy leaves the rural plain, a camps distress to prove; All other ills she can sustain, but living from her love., Plate numbered "3" in upper left corner., Mounted on page 14 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink directly below title: Miss Walpole the actress.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 22d, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Atkyns, Charlotte Walpole, Lady, approximately 1758-1836,
Subject (Topic):
Actresses, Soldiers, Guards, Military camps, and Theatrical productions
Volume 1, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 99. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Charlotte Walpole dressed as a sentry at Cox Heath in her role as Nancy in R.B. Sheridan's 'The Camp', standing on a hill above a military camp at left which she points towards, a cabin with letters 'CW' on the side and smoking chimney behind; after Bunbury, published state after change of title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate originally published with the title "Miss Walpole" and without the verses below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,66.33., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: My Nancy leaves the rural plain, a camps distress to prove; All other ills she can sustain, but living from her love., Plate numbered "3" in upper left corner., Mounted on page 99 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 23.9 x 18.2 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number from upper left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 22d, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Atkyns, Charlotte Walpole, Lady, approximately 1758-1836,
Subject (Topic):
Actresses, Soldiers, Guards, Military camps, and Theatrical productions