A whimsically portrayed Horace Walpole makes a shushing gesture with one finger on his lips while holding an empty picking basket in his other hand. A small lapdog with a decorative bow tied around its neck, presumably Tonton, accompanies Walpole on the task. Doctor John Dolittle, the central character in Hugh Lofting's series of children's books also appears in the scene as a young curious boy pointing up towards the hill
Description:
Title from text above image., Date based on watermark: 1914 England., Text penned below title: The dilletante member for King's Lynn sneaks away from Parliament in the midst of an important debate to pick strawberries on Strawberry Hill with his young friend John Dolittle, the naturalist, aged seven., and Text penned below image: Note: the dog shown is the first specimen of the Strawberry-hound introduced into England.
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd accg to act. Feby. 17, 1780 by D. Long
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Volume 1, opposite page 102. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Collective title devised by cataloger., Each drawing has the title of Sheridan's play "The Rivals" written in ink above, as well as the depicted actor's name, the name of the character portrayed, the theater name, and the performance date written in ink below., Statement of responsibility "by W. Loftie" added in pencil for each drawing, in lower right corner of sheet., Date from partially trimmed watermark on sheet of upper right drawing: 1794 [J. W]hatman., and Mounted together opposite page 102 (leaf numbered '154' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Dodd, James William, 1740?-1796, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, and Johnstone, John Henry, 1749-1828
A preparatory sketch for an unpublished caricature illustrating a scene in a large Georgian kitchen. In front of the open hearth a bull is roasting on a spit as a large-bottomed man (Grenville) sits beside it basting the meat. The dish beneath it is inscribed 'Broad bottom dripping pan'. Other dishes around the room are labeled as are the pools of fat in the dripping pan; some legible notes include plum pudding and mock turtle
Description:
Title from dealer's description., Signed "J. Gillray" in lower right corner., Date from watermark: Ruse & Turner 1805., Two sheets of paper joined:, One of at least three drawings of similar composition executed by Gillray; other versions of the design are held by the New York Public Library and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London., Formerly mounted on a blue paper backing, now removed with residual spots of mounting paper., and This sketch is mentioned in Broadley and Rose's Napoleon in Caricature 1795-1821, published in 1911. In a footnote to page 280, volume I, it notes that 'amongst Gillray's unfinished sketches for caricatures in possession of the writer [presumably Broadley, a known collector] are two very similar drawings entitled the "Broad Bottom Dripping Pan".'
Subject (Name):
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Bulls, Kitchens, Cookery, and Cooking utensils
Volume 1, after page xxxvi. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Samuel Johnson is shown full-length on the left, facing right and apparently asleep standing up; his knees are bent, his eyes are closed, and his head rests on his left hand. A second man stands on the right, hands in his coat pockets, looking over at Johnson; this figure may be Sir John Hawkins
Alternative Title:
Scene from Boswell's 'Tour'
Description:
Title and date supplied by curator., Alternative title from description of original drawing in: Riely, J. The age of Horace Walpole in caricature. New Haven : Yale University Library, 1973, no. 48., After a drawing that is probably the work of Samuel Collings., Printmaker attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 38 x 27 cm., and Bound in after page xxxvi (leaf numbered '41' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 and Hawkins, John, 1719-1789
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1808]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 43 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Napoleon's brother Joseph presents himself as King of Spain to a reulctant and resisting crowd of Spanish citizens and soldiers and is flanked by disheveled French soldiers dramatically supporting Joseph. The Spanish crowd responds to the announcement with a series of defiant exclamations, "He was [?] attorney and we'll soon eject him from Spain", "Though a woman I am determined to resist", and "Yes commrade and for our chattels too if I guess right". Joseph, ignorant of the recalcitrance, wears a crown, cape, medallion and spreads his arms while saying, "For this kind and flattering reception much thanks, behold the brother of the great Napoleon come to reign over you for your goods." The French troops, incredulous at of the Spanish resistance, exclaim, "Will no one huzza will no one ring the bells, if you don't make a noise you shall all fall by the royal bayonet" and "Vive le Roy, huzza!".
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on subject of image., Attributed to Woodward., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., Two columns of verse below image: A fawning flatterer D. J. Thou see'st not, what thou see'st, then doe not say ..., and Watermark.
"The Prince of Orange in old-fashioned uniform, heavily gold-laced, stands in profile to the left, looking up, both hands resting on a tall cane. He wears a cocked hat, long pigtail, aiguillettes, a star, a long sword, and clumsy jack-boots. He has not the heavy somnolent appearance of Gillray's portraits, cf. British Museum Satires No. 9065, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Possible signature "D12[?]" in lower right, partly scored through. The British Museum catalogue gives a tentative attribution to either Denis or Richard Dighton., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Leaf 78 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
A silver medal from Holland, with satirical images of Oliver Cromwell. On the obverse is a bust of Oliver Cromwell, crowned with laurel leaves and in armor; on the reverse, Cromwell kneels in the lap of Britannia, with his breeches down, as the French and Spanish ambassadors in the background argue over who shall kiss first. Formerly housed in the Library at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 99 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)