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1. Captain Thomas Coram from the original picture in the Foundling Hospital / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 1798.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Full length portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram who began his career in shipping and trading, both in America and England, gaining a wide knowledge of colonial affairs. Later became projector of the Foundling Hospital, shown sitting, directed, facing and looking to the left, wearing open coat over vest and cravat, holding gloves in his left hand and a medal in his right hand, hat on the floor by his right foot; surrounded by emblems representing his mercatilist and philanthropic activities, including a scroll lettered "The Royal Charter" and a globe on the right; column and view of the sea and boats behind
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Copy., and On page 107 in volume 2.
- Publisher:
- Published for John Ireland
- Subject (Name):
- Coram, Thomas, 1668?-1751,
- Subject (Topic):
- Globes and Philanthropists
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Captain Thomas Coram from the original picture in the Foundling Hospital / [graphic]
2. Simon Lord Lovat [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published March 1798.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Copy of William Hogarth's portrait of Simon Lord Lovat as an elderly, rotund man seated on a chair, its back carved with putti supporting a coronet. He is counting on his fingers the number of Scottish clans that fought with the Pretender in the rebellion. To his left is a table on which sits a book (entitled "Memoirs" in the original by William Hogarth) and quill pen in an ink bottle
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "Page 293"--Upper right corner., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2801., For a discussion of the original see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 166., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of sheet: Copy., and On page 123 in volume 2.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
- Subject (Topic):
- Jacobites, Obesity, Peerage, British, and Rebellions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Simon Lord Lovat [graphic]