Volume 1, page 65. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of Chichester Cross, a 15th-century market cross that stands in the center of the city of Chichester
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., Scale within a banner drawn in upper left corner., Portions of the drawing were done on smaller pieces of paper integrated into the larger sheet; the image of the clock is drawn on a sheet 65 x 27 mm that is pasted onto the larger sheet at the center of the composition, while the image of the top of the structure is drawn on a sheet 72 x 32 mm that is pasted into an area at the top of the composition where the larger sheet has been cut away., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 65 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Page 193. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility and date written in ink on verso, in a contemporary hand., and Mounted on page 193 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
View of the clock and the couple's initials "HA" above a love knot
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date inferred from that of the plate on which the drawing is mounted; the plate, which depicts the clock with a detail of the inscription on it, was engraved for the 1842 Strawberry Hill sale catalogue., The watercolor drawing is pasted in the lower right corner of the larger sheet of the print, beneath the wood-engraved image., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547., Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536., and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A collection of pictorial conundrum cards from various unidentified sets of cards trimmed from larger sheets of etched images; also a single drawing signed "R. Ck." suggesting it is his work on the largest set (incomplete) of 19 cards. The other four sets, also incomplete, are grouped by the similarity in style and letterforms. All cards contain a humorously named person with an image and a riddle. Presumably the sheet from which these images were cut contained the answers to the riddles. Queen Victoria and Sir Edwin Eglinton (the Eglinton Tournament 1839) suggest the possible date of 1840
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Each card shows an illustration and a query., Date range estimated base on pictorial images and design., and For further information, consult library staff.
Some with unidentified notes; also some with dates and locations including: Drury Lane and Covent Garden; the provinces, including Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other locations
Description:
Includes some undated playbills.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, London., Ireland, Dublin., Scotland, Edinburgh., and Glasgow.
Subject (Name):
Covent Garden (London, England) and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
A large crowd of theatregoers file out of a theater and onto the street in a pouring rainfall and high winds that turns umbrellas inside out. One man has fallen and broken his lantern as a woman falls back over him as her shoes are being changed. The audience is a mix of classes, couples, old women, young boys, some carrying laterns, one with a cane
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Drawer 802.11.01.05., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right., "The artist is said to have based the theatre in this image on the Orchard Street Theatre in Bath, opened in October 1750 near the South Gate, outside the medieval walls of Bath ... The theatre was the first country theatre to be granted a Royal patent and became known as the Theatre Royal, Bath. .... The theatre was closed in 1805."--Dealer's description., and With Joel Spitz's collector's label on verso of mount.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Lanterns, Rain, Theater audiences, Theaters, Umbrellas, Watchmen, and Winds
Cards for a Regency parlor game that take the form of question and answer. The cards printed in black are questions from a man to a woman, her replies are the red printed set
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Fourteen cards printed in black, fourteen cards printed in red., Possibly privately printed., and For further information, consult library staff.
Page 170. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., On verso is another pencil drawing: [Caricature of a woman and small profile of a man]., Mounted on page 170 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641)., and Temporary local subject terms: Crest of Horace Walpole.
Two views of the dagger believed by Horace Walpole to have been formerly owned by King Henry VIII. The first, at bottom, shows the dagger in its jeweled scabbard; the second, above, shows the dagger without the scabbard. A third image, at the top of the sheet, shows a mace, possibly the one described in the 1842 Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, day 19, lot 80 -- "A beautiful Italian steel mace, of exquisite workmanship, inlaid with gold, from the collection of M. Julienne."
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date inferred from that of the plate on which the drawing is mounted; the plate, which depicts the dagger in its scabbard, was engraved for the 1842 Strawberry Hill sale catalogue., The watercolor drawing is pasted on the top half of the larger sheet of the print, above the wood-engraved image., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)