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- Published / Created:
- [between 1701 and 1800?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Description:
- Caption title above woodcut., Date range conjectural., Verse begins: "In Rome a nobleman did wed"., In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules., In this setting line 24 begins with "and"., Mounted on leaf 51. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and virtuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children
- Published / Created:
- 1747.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 66 726 T675
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 141 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
- Publisher:
- John Tilsley
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Tilsley [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1715]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- A slip-song - "O brave England’s forces!"., "In praise of James Butler, duke of Ormonde's campaigns in Spain against Cadiz and Vigo; after his banishment" (Foxon)., Foxon dates this "[1715/-]"; that is, no earlier than 1715 (the year of Ormonde’s banishment), but with no terminus ante quem specified., Mounted on leaf 43. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spain
- Subject (Name):
- Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688
- Subject (Topic):
- Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1747, Campaigns, Vigo Bay, Battle of, Spain, 1702, Naval warfare, Warships, and Sailing ships
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The siege of Cales
- Published / Created:
- [between 1736 and 1783?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- John True and Susan Mead
- Description:
- Verse begins: "Attend, ye lovers, and give an ear"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., The left woodcut is found in other broadsides with Bow Church Yard and Aldermary Church Yard imprints; the date range is that covering both imprints; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Susan’s surname appears in other editions as either Massie or Mease., Mounted on leaf 60. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Cemeteries, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Skulls, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The unfortunate lovers, or, John True and Susan Mead
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- Published / Created:
- [approximately 25 November 1748]
- Call Number:
- 748.11.25.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- Emblematic funeral ticket for Isaac Watts, Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician who died 25 November 1748. In the center is a mausoleum decorated with pillars and scrolls with three small Cherub heads along the top and the lid decorated with two full-figure Cherubs holding torches on either side of an urn at the top of the structure. The center has been left blank to allow for the letterpress printing (used as the title). On the left, standing on a low block, is the allegorical figure of Time, shown as an old, bearded man with wings, scythe, and hourglass. On the right Death stands on a coffin, shown as a skeleton with an arrow in his left and his right hand resting on one of the small heads decorating the base of the mausoleum. Along the base of the mausoleum hangs a cloth with an image of a funeral procession in a graveyard. On the hills in the background are churches and on the right, a ruins overgrown with vines. In the sky centered above the mausoleum is the symbol of the Holy Ghost and above it the Sun and on either edge two Cherub heads
- Description:
- Title from letterpress text in a compartment left blank in an elaborately engraved pictorial sheet. and Plate mark: 23 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial, Cherubs, Churches, Coffins, Death, Funeral processions, Sun, Skeletons, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > You are desired to attend the funeral of the late Reverend Isaac Watts, D.D. : from Lorimer's-Hall, London-Wall, to the burial-ground in Bunn-Hill-Fields, on Monday, the 5th day of December, l748, at one o'clock in the afternoon
- Published / Created:
- [between 1733 and 1769?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 66 733 Al325
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 23 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Cartouche with three birds] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 1662-1733, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1733]
- Call Number:
- Folio 66 733 Al325
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., "Vid." engraved in upper left corner and "Inf." engraved in upper right corner., "Vol. III" engraved in lower left corner and "P. 198, 199" engraved in lower right corner., and On leaf 14 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Engraved roundel] [graphic]