A portrait of Thomas Kirgate, half-length, looking to the right
Description:
Title written in black ink below plate line, in an unidentified hand., Statements of responsibility written in black ink below title, in an unidentified hand: Painted & etched by E. Edwards, 1784; finished by J. Hall., and Mounted on page 18 in Horace Walpole's Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex.
Title devised by curator; alternative title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom of plate., and On leaf 97 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Three individual drawings of men in profile and displaying varying levels of affluence based on attire
Description:
Title, date, and artist attribution suggested by cataloger., A constructed composition consisting of three individual drawings in the same style arranged in a row and pasted on to a backing sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
Two men gently lay an unconscious woman down on a soft mound of turf in the forest while a third man and two dogs observe the effort. The three men are armed with quivers of arrows and swords
Alternative Title:
Three men rescuing an injured woman and Supposed death of Imogen
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attributed to Bunbury., Date from local catalog card., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Wounds & injuries, Loss of consciousness, Dogs, and Rescues
Title supplied by cataloger., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Each design captioned in ms.: Foreground; Background; Light & shade., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Artist attrubtion in ms. on sheet: S Martin del.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor drawing depicting black and yellow arms with two lion-like figures, which resemble the arms of William the Conquerer. The tile was formerly owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 37 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
William I, King of England, 1027 or 1028-1087. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
After title page. Bibliographical and literary anecdotes by William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A., and
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
In Islington Church Yard
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on the presumption that this drawing was added to the volume when it was extra-illustrated by G. Wright in 1844., Inscription on the depicted tombstone: Within this vault lie the remains of John Nichols Esqr. F.S.A. London, Edinburgh & Perth, (Son of Edward and Anne Nichols, of this parish), author of the History of Leicestershire, and numerous other works; died November 26th, 1826, in his 82nd year of his age., and Bound in after title page in an extra-illustrated copy of John Nichols's Bibliographical and literary anecdotes by William Bowyer ...