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Published / Created:
[28 May 1772]
Call Number:
772.05.28.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An impoverished-looking man, with a sword, out-at-elbows, and a hole in the bag of his wig, is walking away from the viewer looking backwards at him. He holds a 'Map of Peru' in his right hand and a book, his tricorne and an umbrella under his left ar...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 28, 1772, by Picot, St. Martins Lane
Subject (Topic):
Poets and Maps
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A French poet [graphic].
Creator:
Published / Created:
[1730?]
Call Number:
Portraits C875 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Title from caption below image
Alternative Title:
Abrahamvs Cowleius
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667,
Subject (Topic):
Poets and English
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Abrahamus Cowleius Anglorum Pindarus flaccus maro deliciae decus desiderium aevi sui / [graphic]
Creator:
Published / Created:
1742.
Call Number:
Portraits C496 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, half-length directed to right, wearing a capuchon and a pen case hanging from a ribbon around his neck; in ornamental oval frame on a bracket; a lyre and scrolls below; before publisher's address"--British Museu...
Description:
Title from text in image.
Publisher:
Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400,
Subject (Topic):
Poets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Geoffrey Chaucer [graphic]
Creator:
Published / Created:
1743.
Call Number:
Portraits D799 no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of John Dryden, bust in profile to right but looking at the viewer; in an ornamental oval; theatrical attributes below; state with publisher's address."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image.
Publisher:
Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Dryden, John, 1631-1700,
Subject (Topic):
Poets and Dramatists
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Dryden [graphic]
Published / Created:
[approximately 1740]
Call Number:
Folio 724 743 H432 Box 3 Folder 19 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Oval portrait of John Milton as a young man, bust in frontal view, wearing a ruff and buttoned jacket
Description:
Title devised by curator, based on published print after this drawing.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Milton, John, 1608-1674,
Subject (Topic):
Poets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Milton [art original].
Published / Created:
[20 January 1794]
Call Number:
Hogarth 794.01.20.05 Impression 1 Box 135
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Copy of a detail from Hogarth's Distressed poet, showing Theobald at his writing desk in his attic room, scratching his head under his wig
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20th 1794 by Wm. Richardson, Castle St., Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Theobald, Mr. 1688-1744 (Lewis),
Subject (Topic):
Writing, Poets, and Great Britain
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lewis Theobald [graphic]
Published / Created:
[20 January 1794]
Call Number:
Hogarth 794.01.20.05 Impression 2 Box 135
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Copy of a detail from Hogarth's Distressed poet, showing Theobald at his writing desk in his attic room, scratching his head under his wig
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20th 1794 by Wm. Richardson, Castle St., Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Theobald, Mr. 1688-1744 (Lewis),
Subject (Topic):
Writing, Poets, and Great Britain
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lewis Theobald [graphic]
Published / Created:
[20 January 1794]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Copy of a detail from Hogarth's Distressed poet, showing Theobald at his writing desk in his attic room, scratching his head under his wig
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20th 1794 by Wm. Richardson, Castle St., Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Theobald, Mr. 1688-1744 (Lewis),
Subject (Topic):
Writing, Poets, and Great Britain
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lewis Theobald [graphic]
Creator:
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Thomas Gray, who holds in his right hand a sheet of paper with writing
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections and Poets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Thomas Gray [art original].
Published / Created:
[1765]
Call Number:
765.02.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of James Woodhouse; a cobbler seated in his shop, on a table, one leg in a brace, the other on a stone, supporting a piece of parchment on which he writes with a quill; shoes on back wall, tools on table to the left; a window on the right; i...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
J. Payne
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Woodhouse, James, 1735-1820,
Subject (Topic):
Poets and Shoemakers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Woodhouse, the poetical cobler [graphic]
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