- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1824]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Wash drawing of the curfew, or couvre-feu, from Mr. Gostling's collection that was kept by Horace Walpole in the fireplace of the Library at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title written below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 79 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):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ancient curfeu [art original].
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- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize) Box 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of part of the wall decoration, possibly a frieze or wallpaper, of the Round Tower at Strawberry Hill. An image of a cherub placing a vase upon a pedestal is present within an oval at the bottom of the design
- Description:
- Title from note on verso in an unidentified hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., and Formerly laid in at page 103 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Friezes (Ornamental bands), Wallpapers, and Putti
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > From Strawberry Hill, the tower [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1740]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 743 H432 Box 3 Folder 19 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Oval portrait of John Milton as a young man, bust in frontal view, wearing a ruff and buttoned jacket
- Description:
- Title devised by curator, based on published print after this drawing., Artist unknown., After a painting owned by Arthur Onslow at the time of creation., and One of ten portraits in oil and other drawings included in George Vertue's set of engravings: The heads of the most illustrious persons of Great Britain (London : John and Paul Knapton). See all catalog records by searching call number: LWL Folio 724 743 H432 (Oversize).
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Milton, John, 1608-1674,
- Subject (Topic):
- Poets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Milton [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1770?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 86 Box D166
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A watercolor after the popular satirical print of the same title by William Hogarth, first published 16 May 1763
- Description:
- Title from note in artist's hand., Artist not identified., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Wilkes Esqr. [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [179-?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.39
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Drawing of the effigies of Rene of Anjou and his wife on their tombs
- Alternative Title:
- René of Anjou and his wife
- Description:
- Artist unknown., With a collection of tracings by an unidentified artist from drawings by John Rous. Horace Walpole had the drawings traced and then engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Title from ms. note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand: "René of Anjou & his wife, parents of Margaret, Queen of Henry 6th.
- Subject (Name):
- René I, King of Naples and Jerusalem, 1409-1480. and Isabelle, Queen, consort of René I, King of Naples and Jerusalem, -1453.
- Subject (Topic):
- Effigies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > René of Anjou & his wife parents of Margaret Queen of Henry 6th. [art original]
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait drawing of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams; half-length, shoulders nearly in profile to the left, head turned back and looking at viewer; his right hand grasping the top of a walking stick, the index finger of his left hand extended and pointing to the left; wearing a loose coat, a cravat, and a long curled wig that extends down his back
- Description:
- Title from note in ink in Richard Bull's hand, below image on mounting page., Unsigned; artist not identifed., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this bookplate appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 87 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sir Charles Hanbury Williams [art original].
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1830 and 1852]
- Call Number:
- Drawings G761 no. 7 Box D123
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- John Bull stands defiantly in the center of a crowd of angry men -- military officers, gentlemen of various ages, tradesmen, and an amputee -- most of whom hold out bills ranging between £50 and £5000; the speech bubbles above their heads read: "King's taxes"; "Police rate"; "Parish rates"; "Excise duties"; "Tithes church rates pew rents & Easter doos [sic]"; "Sundres &c." John Bull's response reads, "Damme ye had better devour me., ye voratious crew. Am I never to have my hands out of my pocket again, but 't wont last long lads. I shall soon be in the Gazette & then ye lazy drones ye must work hard for you own livings." The man with a large belly on the lower right carries a little dog under his arm
- Description:
- Title from caption written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Paper watermarked: J.R. 1828., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Taxation, Anger, Crowds, Demonstrations, Dogs, Men, Military officers, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The present state of John Bull [art original]
- Published / Created:
- [April 1728]
- Call Number:
- 728.04.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the popularity of the Beggar's Opera in the form of a medley print. At top left a print shows two oval portraits, Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum on the left and Thomas Walker as Macheath on the right, two short columns of verse beneath. In the centre lies a print depicting a debased Parnassus: in the foreground muses drink from a barrel, one vomiting; a woman wearing a hat hands a basket to a muse sitting in a dust-cart drawn by a Pegasus; a cornucopia lies upended on the ground: in the background, is a boxing match surrounded on two sides with a temporary stand from which flies the flag of St George and to the right of which a bull and a bear are preceded by Apollo playing a fiddle; beneath are four lines of verse describing the scene. Behind the Parnassus print another shows the ghost of Jeremy Collier rising from his grave holding the pamphlet in which he had condemned "The Immoratlities of the English Stage", four lines of verse beneath. This print is overlaid by a smaller oblong print with four verses and portraits of Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst) Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Lavinia Fenton (as Polly Peachum). On the left is a print in which Democritus and Heraclitus examine a globe together, eight lines of verse beneath. In the centre is an engraved address 'To Polly Peachum' quoted, according to the earlier state from The Daily Journal, April 19, 1728. At lower left is a print with a stage where a Apollo descends on a cloud to judge between rival singers (Faustina and Cuzzoni) to whom a group of gentlemen with asses' ears listen without judgement, two columns of verse beneath explain the scene. On the right, a scene by a river where a balance has been set up in which the Beggar's Opera outweighs Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Addison, Nicholas Rowe and Thomas Otway; the personification of trade collapses in the arms of George II, assisted by Queen Caroline; verses beneath claim that the popularity of the Beggar's Opera is indicative of the sorry state of the country. At bottom right is a scene in Newgate with men and women sitting round a table on which is a punch bowl and pipes; they are toasting a laureated John Gay who sits at the centre, saying 'The Beggers Opera for yr', 'G(a)y for ever', 'Let's vote him King of the Beggers' and he responds, 'Yov'e done me too great an honour but I'll -'; a small child stands beside the table; two columns of verse beneath."-- British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text engraved above image., "Poet G-" refers to John Gay., Later state, lacking references to 'Daily Journal April 19th. 1728' below the verses "to the Tune of the Soldier and ye Sailor" and to 'Daily Journal April 10 1798' below those "To Polly Peacham". Cf. Compare no. 1806 in v. 2 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 45 x 34 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732, Gay, John, 1685-1732., Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760, Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744, Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726, Bordoni, Faustina, 1697-1781., Amhurst, N. 1697-1742. (Nicholas),, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Heraclitus, of Ephesus., Democritus, approximately 460 B.C.-approximately 370 B.C., and Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778.
- Subject (Topic):
- Social life and customs, Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc, Pegasus (Greek mythology), Apollo, Muses (Greek deities), Parnassus, Mount (Greece), Prints, Prisons, and Theaters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The stage medley representing the polite tast [sic] of the Town & the matchless merits of Poet G- Polly Peachum and Captn. Macheath. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Shelley, Samuel, approximately 1750-1808, artist
- Published / Created:
- [18th century?]
- Call Number:
- LWL Min. 137 Shelved in Object Room in Box 2d
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Unknown gentleman in red coat
- Description:
- Title from dealer's catalog. and Two portraits framed in rectangular gilt-metal frame, 14.5 x 10.5.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Unknown gentleman in gray coat Unknown gentleman in red coat. [art original]
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1790]
- Call Number:
- LWL Min. 108 Shelved in Object Room in Box 1d
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A locket with portraits in both frames
- Alternative Title:
- Boy in red coat
- Description:
- Title from dealer's catalog. and Laid in case lined with green silk and velvet.
- Subject (Topic):
- Girls and Boys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Young child with a bow A boy in red coat. [art original]