Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption continues: "Pretty well I tank you Mr. Cesar only I aspire too much!", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Costume: 1830., Watermark: J Whatman., and Plate numbered in ms. near top of sheet: 237.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Fans (Accessories), Staffs (Sticks), and Umbrellas
Travellers see strange things logic without his specs
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Imprint statement erased from sheet., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill.
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption continues: Turn away thine eyes from me, Timothy, for they overcome me thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead!", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: 1830 -- Male costume: 1830 -- Lighting -- Shells: conch --Reference to Gilead., and Print numbered in ms. near top edge of sheet: 44.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Chairs, Dogs, Fireplaces, Mirrors, and Vases
An admission ticket to a performance on 30 November 1789 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Such private theatricals at country houses became increasingly popular during the eighteenth century, with plays starting in earnest at Blenheim in 1786 and becoming so successful that a greenhouse was converted into a proper theater
Alternative Title:
Fourth night. Blenheim. Monday, November 30, 1789, will be performed ...
Description:
Letterpress ticket on card, printed on recto only. and Traces of glue on verso, probably formerly mounted in an album. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Oxfordshire.
Subject (Name):
Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795. and Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Aristocracy (Social class), Social life and customs, and Amateur theater
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 4a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of one of the chairs, designed in a Gothic style by Richard Bentley and Horace Walpole, that were in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., and Inlaid on page 4a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 4b. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the table of Sicilian jasper on a black frame, designed by Richard Bentley, in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., and Inlaid on page 4b in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Title from text inscribed in black ink above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Probably a copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward., One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 21 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lavishly costumed female dwarf performs a dance while holding up a section of her dress
Description:
Title from text inscribed in black ink above image in the artist's hand., Date supplied by cataloger., Attributed to Woodward., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Operas & operetta, Dancers, Dwarfs, and Human curiosities
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 42a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of one of two small Welsh armchairs kept by Horace Walpole in the Star Chamber at Strawberry Hill. The support posts of the chair are painted with alternating blue and white bands; the triangular seat has a cushion of blue-gray point lace. Centered within the backrest are the yellow and black arms of Mr. Richard Bateman
Alternative Title:
Welsh armed chair
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Inlaid on page 42a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].