A collection of drawings of Celtic designs, heads (a satyr, bacchanalian, Chinese, and two classical), ornaments, two with muscial motifs (wind instruments), on a variety of papers, some oiled, probably from the 16th-18th centuries, mounted on a leaf disbound from a 19th century album
Description:
Title devised by curator. and One of four sheets from a 19th century album. To view other sheets, see Lewis Walpole Library: Drawings Un58 nos. 74 and 75 and SH Contents Sa5 no. 1.
Subject (Topic):
Architectural decorations & ornaments and Heads (Anatomy)
Plate lettered in the top center 'F': Reverse copies of details from figures from the lower left corner of Hogarth's "Beer Street". Numbered 1: The fat butcher sits laughing (lower right) with a tankard of ale barely visible in his right hand. Standing above and behind him is the cooper or blacksmith wearing a cap and an apron with a pair of tongs at his waist. In his left hand he holds a large tankard of ale with a large head of foam.
Alternative Title:
Beer Street.
Description:
Maggs; December 1963; Acquisitions no.: 963-12-3., Mounted with one other print. To view other title, search by call number: Hogarth 787.00.00.46, Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., and Title devised by cataloger.
Plate lettered in the top center 'G': Reverse copies of details from figures from the lower left corner of Hogarth's "Beer Street". Numbered 1: A detail of man drinking from the lower right, above the hamper; 3. A paver with his ramer barely visible whispers in the ear of a servant-maid (2).
Alternative Title:
Beer Street.
Description:
Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., and Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified],
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist. and Hogarth, William,--1697-1764.
"Portrait standing whole-length next to an orange tree, left foot raised on the plinth below it, left arm resting on the large urn in which the tree is planted, holding a fruit and gesturing towards it with the other hand, smiling towards the viewer; from a series of thirteen plates after Kneller."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker and publishers statements taken from alternate state, see British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins, resulting in loss of imprint., and Title and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1207.
Publisher:
[J. Cooper],
Subject (Name):
Bliss, G. T.--Mrs.--Ownership., Bliss, Susan Dwight--Donor., Cooper, John, fl. 1726-1737, publisher., and Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723, artist.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist.
Call Number:
24 17 791P Copy 5
Collection Title:
Castle of Otranto.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Portrait of Lady Mary Coke, bust length, in profile to the left; wearing a plain headdress, a ruffled choker, and a low-cut gown.
Description:
Date of production based on artist's death date., Former owners include R.S. Holford and J.O. Jardine Binnie. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from E. Mathews, February 1939., Inlaid opposite page xiii in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791]., Title devised by curator., and Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card.
Subject (Name):
Binnie, J. O. Jardine--Ownership., Coke, Mary,--Lady,--1726-1811--Portraits., and Holford, Robert Stayner,--1808-1892--Ownership.