George Aust papers concerning the Secret Service, 1794-1800
Container / Volume:
Folder 3
Image Count:
6
Abstract:
This collection, with its painstaking accounts and administrative receipts, shows the daily complexities of managing a secret service.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --History --George III, 1760-1820
Subject (Name):
Aust, George, 1749-1829, Great Britain. Foreign Office --Officials and employees, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Thomas Coutts & Co, and Wickham, William, 1761-1840
Subject (Topic):
Ciphers, Cryptography --Great Britain, and Intelligence service --Great Britain
Structural drawing of the church and chancel at Croome, in black in with scale and some additions in purple ink. Square section in upper left corner cut out
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Inscribed at top of page: "Section of [the] Church and Chancel for Ld. Coventry at Croome, Worchestershire."
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1738]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3636 no. 5+ (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Self-portrait of Jonathan Richardson the elder, head and shoulders, wearing wig and neckcloth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Me, as you find my soul, neglect or love ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist, printmaker, and date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Text below image: Me, as you find my soul, neglect or love, and show by virtue virtue you approve. R. 1738., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Note in pencil in a 20th century hand: Taken from an extra-illustrated Boswell's "Johnson"., Window mounted on wove paper to 29 x 23 cm., and Annotation in ink in Horace Walpole's hand, on a 2.5 x 7.6 cm piece of laid paper, window mounted below portrait: John Richardson, painter, by himself.
Title from dealer's catalog., Inscribed on verso: Purchased for me by Mrs. Forster at Strawberry Hill; 10th May 1842. R. R. Preston. Liotard by himself. A legacy to Mr. Horace Walpole from Mrs. Delany 1788., Blackened pearwood frame., and Sitter in profile to the left, red cap.
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:
Wash drawing depicting one of the ossuaria kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill. In the pediment of the ossuarium is a tripod supported by griffins; at each corner is a head of a man and a bird; in the center is an inscription in Latin
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 87 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.
Two English settees originally with crimson Norwich damask, now with reproduction worsted damask. Formerly in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Inscriptions: signed on the stretcher 'by Thos. Courtenay Devenish' and incised 'IF'; and on the frame 'Restuffed by H. Adams Nov. 1833.', Also attributed to English furniture maker William Vile and John Cobb, English cabinet-maker and upholsterer., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A pair of window couches, of similar fashion, covered en suite., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
One sheet with sketches on front and back, mostly in ink, of bridges from a variety of angles
Description:
John Chute (1701-1776), English architect and connoisseur of the arts and literature, member of Horace Walpole's 'committee of taste.' and Originally laid in: Slight architectural sketches by John Chute, Box 1.
Studies of two couples and two men, most with caricatured faces. One of the couples is dancing (?); the other is shown with the woman sitting on the man's lap, he with a lewd grimace on his face
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Thomas Rowlandson., and For further information, consult library staff.