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1. [Coin struck during reign of King Theodore] [art original].
- Creator:
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1810]
- Call Number:
- 33 4 Copy 16
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 88. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Latin motto "Pro bono publico" around the
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to Thomas Kirgate from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., Three lines of text written below image, in ink over pencil: This is taken from a coin of Theodore's, engraved in a French 4to. book entitled Recueil general des pieces obsidionales 7 de nécessité, plate 27, no. 8., With placement instruction "88" written in pencil in upper right corner., and Mounted opposite page 88 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
- Subject (Topic):
- Coins
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Coin struck during reign of King Theodore] [art original].
2. A remarkable piece of K. Edw. VI [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- titles in Latin around the edge. The reverse
- Alternative Title:
- Remarkable piece of King Edward VI
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., "Dw. 20, gr. 3"--Below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Horace Walpole kept an example of this coin in the rose-wood case in the Library at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 88 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Coins and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A remarkable piece of K. Edw. VI [graphic].
3. [Heraldic Bookplate of Charles Cornwallis, Lord Cornwallis] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [between 1722 and 1753]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 66 726 T675
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Cha. Cornwallis Ld. Cornwallis
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Date based on time period when Charles Cornwallis was known as "The Lord Cornwallis"., Text within banner below shield: Virtvs vincit invidiam., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Laid in an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
- Publisher:
- Charles Cornwallis
- Subject (Name):
- Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Earl, 1700-1762.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Heraldic Bookplate of Charles Cornwallis, Lord Cornwallis] [graphic].
4. Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1743]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3646 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A confrontation in a bedchamber between a black woman in a nightgown in bed and four men who surround her canopy bed. One man holds a candle. The woman is slapping the one man to her right on the cheek while another pulls him away. A fourth man is pointing towards her shoulder
- Alternative Title:
- Discovery
- Description:
- Text in Latin and English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Confrontations, Black people, and Bedrooms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo [art original].
5. [Drawings, mostly done by Vertue, of various people and of antiquities] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Published / Created:
- [between 1723 and 1735]
- Call Number:
- 49 2610
- Image Count:
- 56
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A volume of drawings mostly by Vertue in various medium and some engravings, with the drawings mounted or laid in, including twenty-two portraits; eighteen other drawings of allegorical figures, scenes from mythology, and a scene from Richard Steele's Spectator (1711), in which Yarico is drawn as a Native American Indian maiden. Some of the drawings are copies of engravings including those by Pierre Berchet, Claude Lorrain, and other unidentified sources. A few portraits are unidentified but most have been annotated with the name of the subject, some with additional annotations in Horace Walpole's hand: Sr. R. Walpole from Wotton; W. Caxton, printer; Sr. Is. Watts; Coverd[?]; Henry Howard Earl of Surrey; Junus; Dr. Clarke; Dr. Swift; Milton; Joseph Bowles, with a note indicating that the sketch took 55 minutes; Scarpu(?); T. Hearne; Tho. Tristram, dated 20 April 1723; Mich. Bergers; Chr. Mazard(?); Dr. Tudway, with a portrait of the Earl of Oxenford on verso; unidentified portrait with a portrait of Vertue on the verso; unidentified scholar, dated July 1729 Cambridge. Also tipped in are: an engraved portrait of Darcy Wentworth by Willem de Passe; an engraved portrait of William Parsons by Simon Gribelin, after Pierre Berchet; an engraved portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Goltzius; Hatchard, a gentleman of Berkshire who "was so very fat that he could not get into a hackney coach", S.G. sculp. Also included is a drawing of a pearl said to have been "taken out of the ear of my grandfather after his head was cutt off and given to the princess Royal. This the attestation of Queen Mary .. now in the possession of the Duke of Portland ... trans. by G. June 1735", later used for his engraving 1749? Also included is a portrait sketch identified as "Grimaldi" on wove paper and laid in (at a later date?) a sketch of a man on a sleigh pulled by a horse, also on wove paper
- Alternative Title:
- Drawings by Vertue
- Description:
- In English, some Latin.
- Subject (Name):
- Burgers, Michael, -1726,, Bowles, Joseph, 1692 or 1693-1729,, Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492,, Clarke, Alured, 1696-1742,, Hearne, Thomas, 1678-1735,, Junius, Franciscus, 1589-1677,, Milton, John, 1608-1674,, Oxford, Edward De Vere, Earl of, 1550-1604,, Parsons, William, 1658-1725?,, Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1517?-1547,, Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745,, Tristram, Thomas,, Tudway, Thomas, 1655 or 1656-1726,, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,, Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748,, and Wentworth, Darcy, 1592-1667,
- Subject (Topic):
- Inkle and Yarico, Cupids, Gods, and Goddesses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings, mostly done by Vertue, of various people and of antiquities] [art original].
6. English deck of single figure cartomancy cards
- Creator:
- Waite, Arthur Edward, 1857-1942, conceptor
- Published / Created:
- [1937?]
- Call Number:
- ENG38
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Latin/Italian suit system, modified
- Publisher:
- Arthur Edward Waite and Church of Light
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Divination cards
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > English deck of single figure cartomancy cards