Watercolor depicting a man, shown full-length, playing a violin and wearing a jacket trimmed with gold tassels. On the right a young lady dances to the tune. The dancer, with blue ribbon tied around her waist, discreetly lifts up her skirt to performing the dancing steps while turning her head towards the musician
Alternative Title:
Country dance
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Date and artist suggested by curator based on costume and style.
A young woman wraps her arms around an older gentlemen who appears to resist her flirtatious gesture. A young man mischeviously peeks at the embrace from behind a large tree
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Attributed to Rowlandson., and For further information, consult library staff.
Pen and ink drawing depicting a large gaming room decorated with a single chandelier, a large mantel holding vases and candles, and framed paintings on the walls. Guests are seated around two tables playing card games while other guests stand together in groups
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Games, Card games, Chandeliers, Mantels, and Rooms & spaces
A confrontation in a bedchamber between a black woman in a nightgown in bed and four men who surround her canopy bed. One man holds a candle. The woman is slapping the one man to her right on the cheek while another pulls him away. A fourth man is pointing towards her shoulder
Description:
Title from ms. note. Date from curator., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above sheet: Gin-Drinkers. Spurious., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below sheet: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 429., and On page 154 in volume 2.
A man stands at a shop door leaning on a cask while looking at another man sitting on the pavement who is pointing towards the man. Canisters of tea are displayed in the shop window
Description:
Title from published print based on this original drawing: The Retort Courteous., See British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, vol. 7, no. 9114., Inscription in pencil lower left, below the image: Original., Inscription in ink on verso: The Country and proud London Stone. Finnucane., Inscription in pencil on verso: Original drawing by Finucane for "The Retort Courteous" BM 9114 published 1 August 1797 by Laurie and Whittle., and For further information, consult library staff.
A sailor, holding a bowl of water, sits on a bucking horse. The townspeople seem to mock the sailor
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing: Published by Carington Bowles, 20 May 1782., Robert Dighton, English draughtsman, 1752-1814., and For further information, consult library staff.
Satirical drawing on the professions of medicine, law and the church. Three practitioners stand in a well furnished interior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document, the clergyman a book, and the physician a phial. Pictures on the wall show men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tithes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside
Description:
Title from that of the print likely engraved after this drawing., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Date of production based on that assigned to the print with the same image in reverse by Louis Philippe Boitard. See online record for no. 1775 in the British Museum online catalogue., Formerly laid in at page 207 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.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Interiors, Lawyers, Pictures, Physicians, and Quarreling
Satirical drawing on the professions of medicine, law and the church. Three practitioners stand in a well furnished interior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document, the clergyman a book, and the physician a phial. Pictures on the wall show men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tithes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside
Description:
Title from that of the print likely engraved after this drawing., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Date of production based on that assigned to the print with the same image in reverse by Louis Philippe Boitard. See online record for no. 1775 in the British Museum online catalogue., Formerly laid in at page 207 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.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Interiors, Lawyers, Pictures, Physicians, and Quarreling
Title devised by curator. and Approximate date based on that of a print in the same collection done in a similar style and depicting a similar theatrical scene. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Waller no. 24.
Drawing of various containers sitting on an ornate mantel or shelf. Possibly drawn from life at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham; alternatively, it could be a design drawing for the villa
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., With several pencil sketches of a man's arm on verso., and Formerly laid in at page 97 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.