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10. [Courtyard of the Royal Exchange, London] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Nicholls, Sutton, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1729]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Page 137. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The courtyard of the Royal Exchange, London, with numerous male figures, most wearing hats and carrying canes; the statue of Charles II in the centre."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 137 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685, and Royal Exchange (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Merchants' exchanges, Commercial facilities, Courtyards, Colonnades, Sculpture, and Crowds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Courtyard of the Royal Exchange, London] [graphic]
11. [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
- Description:
- Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 20.3 x 15.9 cm, on sheet 21.9 x 16.4 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., Plate 67 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works., and With contemporary annotation in ink at bottom of sheet: Frontispiece to Catalogue of Pictures &c. at Exhibition of Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manusfacturers & Commerce, 1761.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Art
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
12. [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
- Call Number:
- 49 3885.2 v.1
- Collection Title:
- Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
- Description:
- Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., and Bound in before title page of: A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Society of Artists of Great-Britain at the Great Room in Spring-Garden, Charing-Cross, May the 9th, 1761 ... (no. 3 in Horace Walpole's bound collection of catalogues).
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Art
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
13. [George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 11. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Georgivs Dvx Clarentia : Cons. Cast. de Qveenebvrgh and Georgius Dux Clerentia
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Inscription in upper right corner of image: Georgivs Dvx Clarentia Cons. Cast. de Qveenebvrgh ..., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 11 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
- Subject (Name):
- Clarence, George, Duke of, 1449-1478,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence] [art original].
14. [Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].
- Published / Created:
- [early 20th century]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1486 (Oversize)
- Container / Volume:
- Box (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A photomechanical print probably created during the early twentieth century as a forgery that reproduces twelve gores for a globe published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller based on his wall map, Universalis Cosmographia (1507). and Evidence of the forgery includes the superimposition of the gores over glue already on the paper surface, which suggests use of a sheet removed from a period volume, as well as details that replicate gores from an authentic woodcut print formerly owned by Austrian cartographer Franz Hauslab and acquired by the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota in 1954
- Description:
- A gore is a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped segment of an object, as found in domes and globes, where a sector of a curved surface, or a curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, and flattened to a plane surface with little distortion., Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1519) was a German cartographer. His wall map Universalis Cosmographia (1507) and printed globes contemporarily derived from it were the first published globular maps of the Western Hemisphere and the first maps on which the name America appears in honor of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)., In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., and Publication place and date of creation supplied by the cataloger.
- Subject (Geographic):
- America
- Subject (Name):
- Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883., Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512., and Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519
- Subject (Topic):
- Forgeries, Globes, World maps, Discovery and exploration, and Name
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].
15. [Resurrection of Altisidora] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 33 10B v.7 Copy 4
- Collection Title:
- After page 50. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Illustration from Don Quixote
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Cervantes S. The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated ... by Charles Jarvis ... London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson [etc.], 1756., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number from lower right and complete loss of volume and page numbers from lower left., Plate numbered "65" in lower right corner., Folded to 21.6 x 15.5 cm., and Tipped in after page 50 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Edwards, E. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England. London : Printed by L. Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby [etc.], 1808.
- Publisher:
- J. and R. Tonson etc.
- Subject (Name):
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616., Quixote, Don (Fictitious character),, and Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character),
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Resurrection of Altisidora] [graphic]
16. [Robert Sidney] [art original].
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 15. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Inveniam viam avt faciam and Inveniam viam aut faciam
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Motto in upper left portion of image: Inveniam viam avt faciam., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 15 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
- Subject (Name):
- Sidney, Robert, 1563-1626,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Robert Sidney] [art original].