Watercolor drawing depicting the gallery at Horace Walpole's house, Strawberry Hill, with view of the Holbein Room through an open door on the right. Light shines through a stained glass at the end of the gallery
Description:
Title from inscription in Thomas Kirgate's hand, in pencil at bottom of sheet., Date based on the fact that the stained glass window was replaced in 1772 by a door into the newly built Great Room bed chamber. Attributed to Carter by previous owner., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and John Carter (1748-1817), British draughtsman and antiquary.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Image contained within an ornamental frame., Book illustration. Placement instructions above image: Vol. X, pa. 29., and Temporary local subject terms: Historical illustrations: Lord Strafford's treason trial, 1641.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, 10 Oct. 1774, by J. Johnson, St. Pauls Church Yd.
Subject (Name):
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641. and Westminster Hall (London, England),
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1ts [sic] Iany. 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.01.03 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing in an inn in profile to left, holding a gourd and a bowl against her sides, looking ahead, wearing a mob-cap and check apron, with a chair to left, casement window to right and three pictures on the wall behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Mr. Alderman Wilkes in his magisterial character at the Sessions House ...
Description:
Title engraved below image., Text above image: Engraved for the Oxford magazine., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 221., and Temporary local subject terms: Sessions House, Old Bailey -- Writing implements: quills -- Sandshakers --Inkwell.
Leaf 40. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A short, stout elder man in glasses stands in front of an armchair as he greets a tall, younger man with elongated chin and bag wig who bows to him. The visitor's greyhound is looking curiously at the host's little pug
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "12" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchair with claw feet -- Room screen -- Table -- Pictures amplifying subject: Portrait of an obese man -- Pets., Second of two plates on leaf 40., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. according to act, July 1, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
Leaf 40. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A short, stout elder man in glasses stands in front of an armchair as he greets a tall, younger man with elongated chin and bag wig who bows to him. The visitor's greyhound is looking curiously at the host's little pug
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "12" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchair with claw feet -- Room screen -- Table -- Pictures amplifying subject: Portrait of an obese man -- Pets., Mounted to 28 x 34 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. according to act, July 1, 1773, by MDarly, Strand