Page 1. List of pieces printed at Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written in pencil below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger, based on that of the manuscript volume in which this drawing is found., Sheet trimmed to the edges of the vignette drawing., and Mounted on page 1 in a volume with the manuscript title: List of pieces printed at Strawberry Hill, taken from Baker's list.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[before 1809]
Call Number:
Print00873
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Signed by the artist in ink at lower right., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Wounds & injuries, Medical aspects of war, Physicians, and Hypochondria
Volume 3, page 246b. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Queen Eleanor, Henry III
Description:
Title from note in ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on death date of Horace Walpole, whose annotation is present below image., and Mounted on page 246b in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Subject (Name):
Henry III, King of England, 1207-1272,, Eleanor, of Provence, Queen, consort of Henry III, King of England, 1223 or 1224-1291,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A half-length portrait of Rachel Pringle, a large Barbados woman wearing a stripped headscarf, long dangling earrings, and a pearl necklace from which hangs a cameo of an English officer in uniform
Alternative Title:
Rachel Pringle of Barbados
Description:
Title and date from item., Portrait of Rachel Pringle probably based on the 1792 Thomas Rowlandson etching of the same title, without the background drama in the Bridgetown brothel., Signed with the monogram of an unidentified artist: possibly 'FCh' followed by the date., Formerly part of a scrapbook, now detached, mounted on blue paper, page trimmed. Clippings from newspapers mounted above the portrait include three poems and songs, the unsigned "The last leaf of summer", "Dirge" by M.H.J., and "There is not one familar face", the last of which includes a review of "Songs for the grave and the gay" by Thomas Haynes Bayly., and On the verso, an engraving by W. Deeble, drawn by J.P. Neale, and printed by J. Bishop: Fonthill Abbey, the Oratory. London : Pub. Feb.1, 1824 by J.P. Neale ... Also three small etchings of country laborers.
Three half-length sketches of men in two rows, two on the top row are shown bust-length facing left, while the one below is shown half-length playing a bassoon. Only the portrait on the top right is identified by the artist
Description:
Title written below drawing in upper right., Attributed to John Nixon in dealer's description., Date based on artist's death date., and Sheet numbered "114" in ink at top.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Musicians, Musical instruments, and Bassoons
Title from note in ink above image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production from Horace Walpole's note below image: This view was taken about 1750. It was then a farm house., and Tipped in opposite page 239 in Horace Walpole's copy of the Strawberry Hill Press edition of Hamilton's Memoires du comte de Grammont.
Title inscribed in ink at lower left., John Thurtell was a notorious murderer who, as part of his sentence, was dissected the day after he was hung., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Physicians, Dissections, and Thurtell, John, 1794-1824
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[before 1809]
Call Number:
Print00232
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
The dry gripes!!
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Signed by the artist in grey ink., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1797]
Call Number:
Print00756
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Signed by the artist in ink at lower left., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Drugs, Prescribing, Physicians, Obesity, Alcoholism, and Gluttony
A collection of 10 portrait paintings in oil and three drawings of designs for frames around the portraits in preparation for the engravings that were made for Thomas Birch's The heads of the most illustrious persons of Great Britain published by John and Paul Knapton between 1727 and 1752
Alternative Title:
Illustrious persons of England
Description:
Title from paper wrappers., Plates engraved by Houbraken and Vertue with the titles and the dates engraved on the plates., Many with original wrappers, autographed by G. Vertue., Multiple impressions, in various stages of proof., With 10 of the original drawings on which the engravings were based, and 3 of the original border decorations by Gravelot. Portraits in oil: John Russel, Ann of Cleves, Sir Thomas More, John Milton, John Campbell, Samuel Clarke, Sir John Smith, Henry Howard, Sir Philip Sidney, and William Wainfleet., and For further information, consult library staff.