- Published / Created:
- [1780?]
- Call Number:
- 780.00.00.27.1 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A curiously carved chest, or seat, representing "The English Bank of Exchange" (Wisselbank) is suspended like a pair of scales by chains from the horn of a unicorn whose head emerges from clouds. It tilts down on the right, where a stout Englishman, "an English lord", sits precariously, exclaiming in alarm as a Frenchman (right), standing on the ground beneath, pulls him by the leg. The Frenchman's right hand is on the hilt of his sword. The balance is further depressed by America, a naked child crowned with feathers, who is seated on the "Bank" beside the Englishman and holding his arm, admonishing him with an upraised finger. A Spaniard holding a crutch crouches on the ground beside the Frenchman. A "Dutch skipper" (left) holds one leg of the "Bank" to prevent its being dragged down by France. He turns to speak to a "merchant of Amsterdam" seated on a chest and writing in a ledger. Round the chest are "sacks of gold", bales of goods, cheeses (one stamped with crossed keys), and rolls of textiles. In the background (centre) is a Dutch landscape; a group of six windmills flying a flag with three stripes, and four cows, two of which are being milked. Beneath the design, verses are engraved in two columns, English (left) and Dutch (right)."--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Europe in her present disordered state
- Description:
- Titles from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Verses beneath image in English and Dutch: "Bold Jack! pray, what's the business to-day? ..." and "Hoezee! tienduizendmaal! van dikhuot zaagt men deelen...", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Headdresses, Windmills, and Commerce
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Het tegenwoordig verward Europa] [Europe in her present disordered state]. [graphic] =
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- Published / Created:
- [1780?]
- Call Number:
- 780.00.00.27.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A curiously carved chest, or seat, representing "The English Bank of Exchange" (Wisselbank) is suspended like a pair of scales by chains from the horn of a unicorn whose head emerges from clouds. It tilts down on the right, where a stout Englishman, "an English lord", sits precariously, exclaiming in alarm as a Frenchman (right), standing on the ground beneath, pulls him by the leg. The Frenchman's right hand is on the hilt of his sword. The balance is further depressed by America, a naked child crowned with feathers, who is seated on the "Bank" beside the Englishman and holding his arm, admonishing him with an upraised finger. A Spaniard holding a crutch crouches on the ground beside the Frenchman. A "Dutch skipper" (left) holds one leg of the "Bank" to prevent its being dragged down by France. He turns to speak to a "merchant of Amsterdam" seated on a chest and writing in a ledger. Round the chest are "sacks of gold", bales of goods, cheeses (one stamped with crossed keys), and rolls of textiles. In the background (centre) is a Dutch landscape; a group of six windmills flying a flag with three stripes, and four cows, two of which are being milked. Beneath the design, verses are engraved in two columns, English (left) and Dutch (right)."--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Europe in her present disordered state
- Description:
- Titles from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Trimmed within plate line; damage with loss of design in lower right corner., and Verses beneath image in English and Dutch: "Bold Jack! pray, what's the business to-day? ..." and "Hoezee! tienduizendmaal! van dikhuot zaagt men deelen ..."
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Headdresses, Windmills, and Commerce
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Het tegenwoordig verward Europa] [Europe in her present disordered state]. [graphic] =
93.
- Creator:
- Matham, Jacob, 1571-1631, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1593]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Plate 2: Hope. A female figure, whole-length to left, holding an anchor, in a niche."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue., Publisher not identified; the set of plates was published on several occasions in the Netherlands, first by Goltzius in Haarlem, then by Claes Jansz Visscher (before 1652) in Amsterdam, and finally by Jochem Ottens. See British Museum online catalogue., One of a series of seven numbered plates showing whole length personifications of "The Virtues" placed in niches, after Hendrik Goltzius., Two lines of text engraved below image: Spes humiles luiquit ... atria sertur. F.E. [Franco Estius]., Plate numbered "2" in lower left corner of image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of design. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1857,0613.504., Mounted on page 76 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 : engraving on wove paper ; 31.1 x 13 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Based on the type of paper, this impression probably represents a mid- to late-18th century printing from an earlier plate.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Hope] [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1720]
- Call Number:
- 720.00.00.71+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Pasquin's wind cards of the wind trade in the year 1720., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., One of two plates depicting a set of 54 playing cards., Twenty seven images of playing cards in three rows, begining with the king of hearts in the upper left corner and ending with the image of a cock holding a print of unicorn in his beak in the lower right corner. Each image is 8.4 x 4.8 cm., and Part of plate 15 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Pasquins Windkaart op de Windnegotie van 't Iaar 1720] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [between 1480 and 1520?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3567.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A Flemish or Dutch drawing of a female saint in a Poor Clare habit and with a crown of thorns (probably Catherine of Siena) kneeling before a crucifix, arms crossed over her chest, as she resists the temptation of riches, power, and pleasure. Riches are represented by three well-dressed men on the left offering her treasure, including an open chest filled with coins and valuables. Power is represented by a crown suspended in the cloud above, while pleasure represented on the right by two female musicians, one playing a flute and another a lute, while a third woman offers a bouquet of flowers. Above and behind the figures on the left is the ruin of a building. In the clouds on the right above the musicians, the triumph of faith over temptation is represented as the grim reaper with a scythe cutting down three kings whose crowns topple from their heads
- Alternative Title:
- Female saint worshipping a crucifix
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Date of the drawing is questionable. Possibly a much later drawing, 17th-century?, On verso, in unknown (possibly W.S. Lewis's) hand: "A Flemish drawing of a female saint worshipping a crucifix.", On verso: "Probably not Horace Walpole's. W.S. Lewis 7 Feb. '73.", On verso: "'Late 15th or early 16th century. Probably Dutch. Anne-Marie Logan, BAC, Sept. 30, 1996.", Lower right corner of image, ownership stamp initial 'D' encircled., Numbered on mount in upper right corner in ink '83' and in a different hand in pencil '63'., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Drawings collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380
- Subject (Topic):
- In art, Grim Reaper (Symbolic character), Crucifixes, Musicians, Prayer, Saints, Temptation, and Wealth
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Temptation of Saint Catherine of Siena] [art original].
- Creator:
- Waterloo, Anthonie, 1610-1690, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1640 and 1690]
- Call Number:
- Topos Un58 no. 1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger. and Date of publication from that of similar prints in the British Museum online catalogue.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Wooded landscape with two figures and a dog crossing a plank bridge over a stream] [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1781]
- Call Number:
- 781.00.00.22
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title, place of publication, and date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and partially colored., and Beneath image in lower left: No. 2.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Yorktown (Va.) and United States
- Subject (Topic):
- Siege, 1781, History, and Commerce
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [York Town] [graphic].