Page 173. 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., Artist's name and date written in ink in lower left corner., and Mounted on page 173 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).
Full-length depictions of a man in seventeenth-century dress, a feather in his hat, a sword at his side, holding a cane. The view of him from the back is drawn to the left of a wood-engraved image of Thomas Coryat's shoes, while the view of him from the front is drawn to the right. The Latin phrase "ad mortum est libi" is written in ink above
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attribution to J.H. Shorthouse based on his ownership of the book and the presence of his initials "J.H.S" beneath the drawn frontispiece in the same volume., Date of production from local card catalog record., For the wood engraving on the same page as this drawing, see no. 78 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and Drawn on page opposite signature l3 in volume 1 of J.H. Shorthouse's copy of the 1776 reprint of Coryat's crudities.
A campanion piece to print of the same title (Such things are. Telles choses sont) which ridicules women's dress. This plate shows four figures of dandies, one with a huge muff, one with a tall cane, all with the high waist, tight trousers, exaggerated ruffles at the neck, fashions that are all of the period
Description:
Title and date from print based on this drawing published by S.W. Fores April 2, 1787., Attributed to Captain Mercer: According to Henry Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comed. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, vol. 1, p. 328., and Formerly mounted with an impression of the engraving, based on this drawing: See Lewis Walpole Library 787.04.02.04+.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, French, and Men