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1. A view from Peter House, Cambridge [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [January 1810]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 53. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Dr. Barnes, wearing cap and gown, a clerical wig, and bands, stands in profile to the right. He is tall, with a fierce Punch-like profile. A second imprint is etched in reversed characters in the shadow at his feet: 'Whitt . . . N° 31 Shoe La[ne], London'."--British Museum online catalogue and "Francis Barnes, D.D., Master of Peterhouse from 1788, was Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy from 1813 to 1838, but gave no lectures. He was 'a disreputable survival from the eighteenth century'. Winstanley, 'Early Victorian Cambridge', 1940, pp. 80, 175."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Leaf 53 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808., and Figure identified as "Dr. Barnes" in lower left corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Barnes, Francis, 1744-1838
- Subject (Topic):
- Philosophers and Teachers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view from Peter House, Cambridge [graphic]
2. Sr. Francis Bacon Viscount St. Albans Lord Chancellor [graphic]
- Creator:
- Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1738.
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a tall hat and ruff; in an ornamental oval with curtain beyond; below a putto holding a sceptre; books and scrolls in lower left; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Sir Francis Bacon Viscount St. Albans Lord Chancellor
- Description:
- Title from text in image., Engraved after a painting by John Vanderbank. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1927,1126.1.7.5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., "In the Possession of Martin Foulkes Esqr."--Below image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 375 (leaf numbered '192' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
- Subject (Name):
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626,
- Subject (Topic):
- Philosophers, Statesmen, British, Putti, and Scepters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sr. Francis Bacon Viscount St. Albans Lord Chancellor [graphic]
3. The philosopher in meditation [graphic]
- Creator:
- Spooner, Charles, 1720-1767, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1765?]
- Call Number:
- 765.00.00.18
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An old, bearded man in a cap and long, furred robe, sits by a table, his eyes downcast in a pensive expression. On the table, placed next to large and opened window, are several volumes and an inkwell. One of the volumes is opened and propped up on a lectern. On ledge separating lower and upper window stands a vase. In the background is an empty fireplace. A plate hangs on the wall above it.
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Part of imprint, following Sayer's address, burnished from plate.
- Publisher:
- Sold by Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Philosophers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The philosopher in meditation [graphic]
4. [Ninon de Lenclos] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Worlidge, T. (Thomas), 1700-1766, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1766]
- Call Number:
- Portraits L563 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Ninon de L'Enclos, half-length, three-quarter to right, looking towards the viewer, with pearl necklace, low-necked gown with bejewelled brooches, strap over her right shoulder; in oval frame with ribbons, curtain, flowers, unlettered cartouche below; working proof"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title and artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1838,1215.58., Lettering on published state: Ninon de Lenclos from an original picture given by herself to the Countess of Sandwich and by the present Earl of Sandwich to Mr. Walpole 1757., Place of publication based on location of printmaker., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and In paper frame: 35.5 x 25.0 cm. Annotation in ms. in various hands on verso of etching. Dealer's catalogue description affixed to front.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Name):
- Lenclos, Ninon de, 1620-1705,
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, French, Courtesans, and Philosophers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Ninon de Lenclos] [graphic].