Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
Description:
Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
Description:
Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Title etched below image., Below image center: Publishd according to Act of Parliament August, 1760., Place of publication supplied by curator., Above image, title reversed., A Vue d'optique., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Spedale di S. Maria Nuova (Florence, Italy).
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Plazas, City & town life, and People with disabilities
Title from item., Parallel title in English, French, and Italian., Date derived from publisher's date of death., Place of publication derived from publisher's nationality., Published: Marcellus Laroon, The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life. Editions were published in 1688 and 1711., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., In image lower right corner: 68., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
P Tempest exc; Cum Privilegio
Subject (Topic):
Posture, Equilibrium, Contortionists, Street entertainers, and Monkeys
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., See Print00308., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Pica (Pathology) in children, Eating disorders, Anomalies, Human curiosities, and Eating & drinking
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Sheet trimmed., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain; Dispensaries.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Manchester Royal Infirmary.
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatric hospitals, Hospitals, Lakes & ponds, and Health care facilities
Title from item., Published: The Political Register. Vol. 2, June, 1768., In lower margin: The Blood & Vitals from her Wounds he drew, And Fed the Hounds that help'd him to pursue. Dryden., British Museum description: Satirical frontispiece to the Political Register, June 1768, showing Britannia stabbed by Lord Bute, her blood caught in bowls held by Lords Weymouth and Barrington; behind on the right, Lord Mansfield hands a bowl of blood to Lord Chatham who is seated his gouty leg on a stool and holding a crutch; on the steps in front of them, Lord Talbot drinks greedily from another bowl, a spit hanging by his side instead of a sword identifies him Lord Steward of the Household; behind on the left, Fletcher Norton, in legal robes, stands drinking from another bowl, an unidentified man leans forward to look at Britannia as she falls back, and another lawyer stands behind drinking from yet another bowl., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793., Talbot, William Talbot, Earl of, 1710-1782., and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789.
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Politicians, Blood, Crutches, Bowls (Tableware)., and Homicides