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19. Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].
- Creator:
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 D18 828
- Image Count:
- 40
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Two scrapbooks containing a collection of mostly 18th century engravings and etchings, some of which are purported to have belonged to Horace Walpole, organized thematically. With four original drawings, including a watercolor and wash drawing of the Neapolitan painter Luca Jordano signed by J.B. Catenaro, an unsigned portrait in red crayon of Cornelius Jansen, a pencil portrait of an unknown woman, and another small pencil drawing of a landscape. The first volume contains etchings and engravings of English villages and rural scenes including the farm house and printing house at Strawberry Hill and two vignettes of Strawberry Hill; topographical scenes in Surrey and Twickenham; etchings of Roman scenes; portraits of eminent historical and contemporary political figures and The second volume begins with a series of 192 small French engravings of women, which document the hair styles and hat fashions in the 17th and 18th centuries, all engraved by Dupin or Desrais. A second series of the 48 engravings from Wenceslaus Hollar's Theatrum mulierum depict the costumes of 17th century women (mostly) in Europe. These prints are followed by 29 small engravings by C. Heath of prominent British politicians and writers of the 18th century. The final pages include several portraits of contemporary British and French figures as well as the plates drawn and engraved by Henry Moses for A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume published in London by E. and C. M'Lean in 1823
- Description:
- In English and French. and Recovered in cloth with marble boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe, Great Britain, Europe., Great Britain., and England
- Subject (Name):
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705, and Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661.
- Subject (Topic):
- Costume, History, Hairstyles, Authors, English, Politicians, Fashion, Clothing and dress, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].
20. The Lord Mayor's Mansion House shewing the front of the house & the west side = Vüe de l'Hôtel du Lord Maire : qui comprend la façade et le côté occidental. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1764]
- Call Number:
- Topos L847 no. 55+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "View of the Mansion House looking down Cornhill and Lombard Street on the left, and also showing the west side of the building on the right; a grand carriage drawn by six horses passing front of building, many figures dotted across streets, a sedan chair crossing from the left"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
- Alternative Title:
- Vüe de l'Hôtel du Lord Maire
- Description:
- Title from caption on separate sheet pasted below image., Terminal date of publication based on form of publisher's name in imprint. See British Museum online catalogue., Bottom portion of sheet with title and imprint has been trimmed, and the two resulting sheets pasted to a cardboard secondary support., The Lewis Walpole Library: From the Topographical Prints collection., and Mounted to 33 x 47 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Jno. Bowles and Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., and London (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Mansions and Official residences
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Lord Mayor's Mansion House shewing the front of the house & the west side = Vüe de l'Hôtel du Lord Maire : qui comprend la façade et le côté occidental. [graphic]
21. The inside of Westminster Abby Le neff de L'Abaie de Westminster / [graphic] =
- Creator:
- Bowles, Thomas, -1767, printmaker, artist, publisher
- Published / Created:
- published according to act of Parliament, Aug. 1, 1753.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Page 173. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Interior view of Westminster Abbey looking down the nave towards the organ, with groups of elegantly dressed figures in foreground
- Alternative Title:
- Inside of Westminster Abbey and Neff de L'Abaie de Westminster
- Description:
- Titles etched below image, in English and French., Titled 'The Inside of Westminster Abbey, by Bowles, 1753' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc, London, 1829., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated on bottom edge, resulting in slight loss of imprint statement., Title in English and French, with remaining text in English., Folded to 28.3 x 23.7 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 173 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- Printed for Tho. Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, John Bowles & Son in Cornhill, Rob. Sayer in Fleetstreet & H. Overton without Newgate
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London, London (England), and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Westminster Abbey, and Westminster Abbey.
- Subject (Topic):
- Church buildings, Abbeys, Interiors, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The inside of Westminster Abby Le neff de L'Abaie de Westminster / [graphic] =
22. Venus de Medicis [graphic]
- Creator:
- Thomassin, S. (Simon), 1652?-1732, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1695]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of the copy at the Palace of Versailles of the statue known as the Venus de' Medici. Aphrodite, looking right, stands naked in a pudica pose; a dolphin being ridden by a putto sits next to her left leg
- Description:
- Title etched within pedestal at bottom of image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Thomassin, S. Recueil des figures, groupes, thermes, fontaines, vases, statues, et autres ornemens de Versailles. Amsterdam : P. Mortier, 1695., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "39" in upper right corner., Mounted on page 159 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- P. Mortier
- Subject (Name):
- Aphrodite (Greek deity)
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Venus de Medicis [graphic]
23. [D'Eon in his study] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Le Roy, Jacques, 1739-
- Published / Created:
- [1775?]
- Call Number:
- 775.00.00.43
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A possibly female figure wearing male attire writing a letter at a table before a window in a study or library. Books fill shelves in the rear while two others lie open on the table, one title Le Code de Cithere
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Title from item., Imperfect; cropped within plate mark., Pencilled on verso: "pour Rʹetif avant lettre...", i.e. possibly an illustration from a work of Restif de La Bretonne., and Mounted to 27 x 23 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810.
- Subject (Topic):
- Letter writing, Interiors, Libraries (Rooms), and Writing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [D'Eon in his study] [graphic].