- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1794]
- Call Number:
- Drawings B87 no. 8 Box D105
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A soldier, worried look upon his face, leads his pregnant lady by the arm through a rural scene
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on uniform., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, British, Poverty, Pregnant women, and Soldiers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A soldier and his girl] [art original].
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- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1796]
- Call Number:
- Drawings N736 no. 4 Box D141
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Ink and wash drawing depicting an ornately costumed actor engaged in a dramatic elocution with one arm extended forwards, palm upturned
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger. and Acronym "J.N" for John Nixon, British artist and printmaker.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Actor declaiming] [art original]
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1779?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings B87 no. 6 Box D105
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady in quasi-military dress rides a sorry horse on the road to Coxheath. She is followed by her husband, dressed as a militia officer for auxilliary forces that frequently encamped on Cox Heath. A dog trots panting at the side of the group
- Alternative Title:
- Sir Horatio Mann returning from Linton to Barham Court having lost his way, is escorted by a farmer's wife returning from Maidstone market
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger based on title of published print based on this drawing., Date based on publication date of James Bretherton's etching., A pen and ink copy of an etching after Bunbury., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horseback riding, Signs (Notices), Military uniforms, British, Militias, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Coxheath ho!] [art original].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1807]
- Call Number:
- Drawings C889 no. 7 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. She watches a servant holding a foppish, elderly naval officer by the collar as he flourishes a cudgel. At his feet lie a set of bellows. On the wall is a framed picture of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
- Description:
- Title from published print based on this drawing., Signed "George Cruikshank" lower right. The British Museum catalogue attributes the design to George's father Isaac in its description of the print engraved after this drawing. Cohn similarly suggests that this design "was probably the work chiefly of Isaac"., A drawing for the illustrated songsheet "Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily", published by Laurie & Whittle in 1807, which tells the tale of a servant Darby Daly who discovers the young Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, forces her seducer to marry her., Backed with Japanese tissue; with the title "The outraged husband" printed on mount., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10938., and Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1144.
- Subject (Topic):
- Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Couples, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfortunate Miss Baily] [art original]
- Creator:
- Vanloo, Jean-Baptiste, 1684-1745, artist
- Published / Created:
- [18th century?]
- Call Number:
- LWL Ptg. 122 Framed, on view in New Library
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The famous author Alexander Pope is depicted in three-quarter length. He is seated at a desk in a leather armchair. He turns his glance to his proper left. His right arm supports his wigged head. His elbow rests on a volume with an eligible title on the spine. In his left hand holds some leaves of manuscript. He wears a brown coat with ruffled shirt sleeves and cravat. On the desk is a silver ink well with quill and some scattered papers
- Description:
- Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Inscription in upper left of image: Alexr. Pope.
- Subject (Name):
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of Alexander Pope] [art original].