- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1790]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 790.07.01.09 Box 115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1726]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 86K(b) Box 125
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Frontispiece portrait of Samuel Butler
- Description:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Samuel Butler [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1726]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 726.00.00.01 Box 100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Frontispiece portrait of Samuel Butler
- Description:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Samuel Butler [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [22 January 1780]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Nancy [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1724]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "The parable of the two sons (Matthew, 21:28-32); a bearded man stands at left, commanding his son to attend to an extensive vineyard below a mountain, another boy sleeping with his elbow on a rock at foreground right."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Frontispiece to Horneck's Happy ascetick and Master of the vineyard
- Description:
- Title from text below image, Above title: St. Matthew Ch. 21. Verse 28., Frontispiece to Anthony Horneck's The Happy Ascetick, or, the Best Exercise ... 6th ed. (London : Printed for Samuel Chapman, 1724)., Alternative title suggested in Paulson: The master of the vineyard., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above image: Original., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below image: Master of the Vineyarde. Frontispiece to Horneck's Happy Ascetic, Ms. note below image: See Nichol's Book, 3d Edit, p. 444/ Sold for £2.2.0., and On page 6 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- Samuel Chapman
- Subject (Name):
- Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.
- Subject (Topic):
- Agricultural equipment, Fathers, Grapes, Parables, and Sons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Son, go work to day in my vineyard [graphic].
8.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [15 May 1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.05.15.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Johnson (right) and Boswell (left) embrace; Boswell, his face hidden behind that of Johnson, holds up his hat as if in triumph. Johnson, wearing hat and boots, holds his oak stick; his eyes are closed; a large book protrudes from his coat-pocket. The post-boy (left) stands warming his back at the fire watching the embrace. A bare-legged man (right), scratching his tousled head, holds out a bowl to Boswell."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Two lines of verse below title: "On Saturday the 14th of August 1773 late in the evening I received a note from him that he was arrived at Boyd's Inn at the head of the Cannongate ..." Vide Journal p. 12., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Post-boy., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-144.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd May 15th 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-le-bone Street Golden Square
- Subject (Name):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The embrace
9.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 June 1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.06.20.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Johnson and Boswell sit at a small circular table in a plainly furnished room. Boswell holds his head, leaning on the table, and pointing with his left hand at an open book inscribed 'Twentieth Sunday after Trinity'; he looks with abject supplication at Johnson, who leans back in his chair, his right hand raised as if speaking oracularly. Boswell's forehead is bandaged, his shoes are unlatched, his breeches unbuttoned at the knee, from his coat-pocket protrudes 'Ogden' (see BMSat 7031). A water-bottle and a bowl are on the floor beside him. Johnson wears his top-boots. Above Boswell's head is a picture of a pig under a vine, suffering from a surfeit."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London]: [E. Jackson], [1786], Four lines of verse below title: "I awaked at noon with a severe head ach I was much vexed that I should have been guilty of such a riot and afraid of a reproof from Dr. Johnson ..." Vide Journal p. 318., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Drunken frolic -- Head ache -- Water bottle., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-158.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 20 June, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary bone [sic] Street, Golden Square
- Subject (Name):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The recovery
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1725]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Title and imprint from Paulson., Designed for John Beaver's Roman military punishments., Sheet trimmed., On page 24 in volume 1., Numbered in ms. by Steevens (?) in upper left: 16., and Title written in ms. note by Steevens above: Degradation.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Beaver, John, active 18th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Military camps, Roman, Punishment & torture, and Soldiers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Degrading punishments] [graphic]