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1. General James Oglethorpe [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1823?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 225 884S Copy 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of James Edward Oglethorpe, full-length, in profile to the left, seated on a stool with his legs crossed at the sale of Dr. Johnson's books, with a walking stick in his hand, reading a book, with a tricorne over his long curling wig, dressed in an elegant frockcoat and breeches, a sword at his waist."--British Museum online catalogue and Full-length portrait of James Oglethorpe, English general and philanthropist, seated, in left profile
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "Publishd. Septr. 9, 1785, by I. Cary, No. 188, Strand", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1887,0406.58., Date of publication inferred from 1823 watermark., Picture caption, printed under image: Died 30th June 1785 Aged 102 said to be the oldest General in Europe - Sketch'd from life at the sale of Dr. Johnsons books Feby. 18, 1785 where the Genl. was reading a book he had purchas'd without spectacles - In 1706 he had an Ensigns commission in the Guards & remember'd to have shot snipes in Conduit mead where Conduit Street now stands., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 368., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 21.5 x 16.5, on sheet 27 x 20.8 cm., Window mounted to 39 x 28 cm., and Bound in as page 42 in volume 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world. London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Oglethorpe, James, 1696-1785,
- Subject (Topic):
- Stools, Staffs (Sticks), Books, Reading, and Daggers & swords
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > General James Oglethorpe [graphic]
2. Horatio Lord Walpole from an original by Vanloo at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Collyer, Joseph, 1748-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1827]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 486 21
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark?, and Mounted on page 24.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Horatio Lord Walpole from an original by Vanloo at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]