Title assigned by curator., Signed lower right: "E.E." [i.e. Edward Edwards]., Image on contemporary mount with wash lines and gold ink., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
A set of playing cards, or transformation cards, drawn by an unidentified artist, showing caricatured figures; each vignette incorporates the formation of hearts or diamonds into the scene. Some of the cards are numbered or annotated on the backs while others show drafts of other sketches. The set contains only the red suits, cards numbered from one to ten in each, although some numbers are missing and there are multiples of some numbers. Illustrations are also duplicated while others appear not to have been finished. There are no cards with clubs and spades. A number of the cards center on Shakespearean themes, social history, and street scenes (such as courtroom drama, musicians performing, a man in the stocks and, in a few, card playing itself). Some of the scenes depicted on these cards show more ribald, drawing from Macbeth’s Weird Sisters, Twelfth Night, King John, and The Merry Wives of Windsor; several are annotated on the reverse with lines from the plays. Falstaff is featured on several cards. Many of the cards reflect the mores of the period and the contrast between ruling passions and rules of conduct. In one, two men cast judgment upon a pregnant woman; it is annotated on the reverse with a dialogue between a Constable and a Judge. In "Village School" a schoolteacher manages to simultaneously hold a book and pinch a child's ear (nine of hearts). Other subjects include a game of chess (five of diamonds); drinking and smoking in a pub (seven of diamonds); and "Bunbury’s Country Club" (six of diamonds) in which the artist has kept elements from the print (published circa 1788). On the ten of diamonds the artist depicts a game of whist (annotated on the reverse "Can you one?").
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger., Some cards annotated and numbered on the verso., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, and Social life and customs
Title devised by curator., Inscriptions: Scale drawn in below image., Artist's name, possibly in his hand, recto lower left corner: Robt Adam Archtitect 1767., Inscription on verso, unidentified hand: H Walpole Esq., Two ownership stamps in red, one on recto and the other on the verso: Initials "A.C." in a rectangle., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
View of houses along the shore of Isleworth Middlesex as seen from the Thames River. Ladies and gentlemen stroll on the path along the river. One gentleman alights from a boat that has pulled up to the landing on the right as his companion turns to pay the boatman
Description:
Title from curator., After the title is written, in same unknown hand, "H. Walpole's collection.", Attributed to J.-H. Müntz., and Press-mark C.1.22 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; moved to the Round Tower.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Middlesex., and Isleworth (London, England)
A drawing of a dirt road surrounded by fences leading towards Canonbury Tower within London's residential district of Canonbury. In the foreground a woman in a black bonnet and white apron leads a small child by the hand away from the village
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and For further information, consult library staff.
A view of Luscombe Castle in the county of Devon, England. The architectural style is gothic revival featuring castellated towers and walls along with large gothic windows. In the foreground under a large tree a woman sketches the house
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from watermark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Wash drawing depicting several ships just offshore. Three men in a small boat row towards a ship that looks to have run aground; a man stands on the sandbar(?) beside the incapacitated ship with his arm raised
Alternative Title:
Gale
Description:
Title from local catalog card; alternative title from the print after which the drawing was made., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Drawn after a print entitled "A gale," engraved by P.C. Canot after a painting by van de Velde, which was published by John Boydell on 1 November 1773. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0609.1656., Date of production from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso: Charles Gore 1781 from a print after an original by Vandevelde in the possession of Mr. Pratt, engrav'd by Canot 1773., Formerly laid in at page 103 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Wash drawing depicting several ships just offshore. Three men in a small boat row towards a ship that looks to have run aground; a man stands on the sandbar(?) beside the incapacitated ship with his arm raised
Alternative Title:
Gale
Description:
Title from local catalog card; alternative title from the print after which the drawing was made., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Drawn after a print entitled "A gale," engraved by P.C. Canot after a painting by van de Velde, which was published by John Boydell on 1 November 1773. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0609.1656., Date of production from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso: Charles Gore 1781 from a print after an original by Vandevelde in the possession of Mr. Pratt, engrav'd by Canot 1773., Formerly laid in at page 103 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Watercolor of the view of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with the Thames River and the lawns
Description:
Title devised by curator., Companion drawing to his: Strawberry Hill chiefly taken in the year 1769 by Mr. Sandby. Lewis Walpole call no.: 49 3485 (12) no. 1., Drawing that was later used as the basis of an engraving for A description of the villa of Horace Walpole (1784) entitled: South front of Strawberry Hill., and Paul Sandby (bap. 1731-1809), English artist and architect.