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- Creator:
- Percy, René de, 1756-1835
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 39-40 Box 4
- Collection Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript poem, in an unidentified hand, consisiting of eight lines. "Under the Earth / Lies the skin / under the Skin / The Body / Of a Psyche Bitch / Wife of a Cupid Dog. / She lived very mild / And died with Child." Above the poem, in the upper left corner of the sheet, is written "Vive" in the same hand
- Description:
- In English., Title from first two lines of the poem., Attributed to René de Percy based on manuscript note in a different hand below poem: By [the] Abbé́ Percy échantillon of English., Date based on the death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this poem was found., Formerly laid in at page 120 of 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.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Under the earth lies the skin ..., not after 1806
- Call Number:
- Folio LWL Mss Vol. 191
- Image Count:
- 171
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- An album of music, songs, engravings, newspaper clippings, chapters from books, broadsides, maps, tickets, a watercolor, etc., all relating to Spring Gardens, Vauxhall with an emphasis on the music performed. Engravings include portraits of actors and performers, politicians, ladies of fashion, views of the gardens, maps, and both songs and engraved musical scores
- Description:
- In English., Title from spine., and Bound in half sprinkled calf, gilt panelled back, with crimson morocco label and gilt emblems of lyres.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Lowe, Thomas, ca. 1719-1783., Vernon, Joseph, 1737 or 1738-1782., and Stevenson, Miss.
- Subject (Topic):
- Music, Parks, and History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Vauxhall miscellany, 1732-1821
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 170
- Image Count:
- 58
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in Walpole's and others' hands, of a collection of several dozen scraps of notes, verse fragments, sketches, and drawings, collected from Walpole's papers. The notes are primarily epigrammatic or anecdotal, on such topics as printing books; British monarchs; Waldegrave's time as ambassador at Paris; Lady Mary Coke's affectations; and Sir W. Draper's gambling. The collection also includes several riddles and verses. Some of the notes have been transcribed, on the same page, by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis and The manuscript also contains 29 drawings, including pencil sketches of Strawberry Hill some done by Walpole and others possibly by John Chute; a pen-and-wash drawing of a scene from The Castle of Otranto accompanied by a note of thanks from Mrs Susanna (Highmore) Duncombe; a pen drawing of the actor William Kemp copied from the frontispiece of a book; numerous busts; a detailed pastoral landscape scene in pencil, possibly by Agnes Berry; pencil sketches of a pig, cow, and dog; pen sketches by Sir John Fenn; and a woodcut title page to a book of John Skelton's works, dated 1523
- Alternative Title:
- Walpoliana mss and drawings
- Description:
- In English., Laid in: scrap of paper with faded ink writing, possibly Walpole's., Marbled endpapers., Binding: full calf; gilt decoration. In gilt on spine: Walpoliana mss and drawings., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852., Coke, Mary, Lady, 1726-1811., Draper, William, Sir, 1721-1787., Duncombe, Susanna Highmore, 1730?-1812., Fenn, John, 1739-1794., Kemp, William, fl. 1600., Skelton, John, 1460?-1529., Waldegrave, James Waldegrave, Earl, 1684-1741., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anecdotes, English poetry, Epigrams, English, Nobility, Social life and customs, Riddles, Kings and rulers, Humor, and Sketches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Walpole's notes and drawings, [1700s].
- Creator:
- Young, Arthur, 1741-1820
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 52
- Image Count:
- 208
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of descriptions of residences of English nobility. The author focuses on descriptions of the views from each seat and the landscape in which the house is situated; occasionally he also describes the architecture and furnishings of the houses and provides anecdotes about the owners. He calls Winander Meer in Westmoreland "the largest water of the kind in England," and notes its picturesque promontories and shrub-decorated shores. At Raby Castle in North Riding, Yorkshire, the seat of the Earl of Darlington, he praises the Gothic taste of the windows; provides the dimensions of the "rendezvous apartment"; and explains how the dog-kennel, "rising out of a wood," beautifies the scene. He also speaks approvingly of Sir James Lowther's project in Cumberland of "building a town to consist of 300 houses, for the use of such of his Domesticks, and other people as are married," which he calls "a most incomparable method of promoting population."
- Description:
- In English., Alphabetical table of contents at beginning of manuscript., At end of manuscript: "The following table of Rooms in the Noblemen & Gentlemen's Seats mentioned in this Vol[u]me do not give the exact proportion of any whole house ... .", Title from title page., Bookplate of Philip Shirley., Bookplate of Ettington Manuscript Library. Written in ink in center: No. 62., Steel engraving pasted on preliminary leaf, opposite clipping with description: Ickworth House near Bury St. Edmunds : the seat of the most noble the Marquess of Bristol / engd. on steel by Alfred Adlard. 50 Dorset Street, Salisbury Square., and Binding: quarter calf over marbled boards. Printed on spine: Noblemens Seats.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., England, and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.
- Subject (Topic):
- Architecture, Domestic, Gentry, Homes and haunts, Nobility, Social life and customs, Travelers' writings, English, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Young's descriptions of noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, prospects, &c, in different parts of England, [ca. 1790].
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss File 82
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Receipt for teas and spices sold to the Rt. Honble. the Countess of Winterton on 16 July 1767 with a note that it was paid on 1 July 1767
- Description:
- In English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Merchants and Tea trade
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Receipt for goods bought at Vale's, in Tavistock Street] : Covent Garden, 16 July 1767