A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London : Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785).
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Also bound in are three prints described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum; these are cataloged separately., and Original boards with new back but old hand-lettered label, uncut. With Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP2 later state) on half-title page. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron. Press-mark R.10, but apparently moved from the Round Tower to the Library in the Offices. Not in Walpole's Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of the Earl of Orford (1813-94), imitated from Horace Walpole's, and bookplate of John A. Spoor. Also with bookplate "AHA".
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Hodges, C. H. (Charles Howard), 1764-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 January 1792]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, half length in a rectangular frame, seated almost in profile to left, looking towards the viewer, holding a paper in left hand, wearing a double-breasted coat with a high collar, frilled cravat, star and powdered wig tied at the nape; after Stuart; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
His Grace William Robert Duke of Leinster
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated along lower edge, resulting in slight loss of text. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 310 (leaf numbered '134' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Remnant of contemporary annotation in brown ink in lower left corner, mostly trimmmed away: ... Duke.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 2d, 1792, by George Cowen, at Thomas Macklin's Poets Gallery, Fleet Street, London, & at his house, Grafton Street, Dublin
Subject (Name):
Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804,
"Portrait seen almost half-length to right, head in three-quarter profile to right, wearing wig and partially open coat; after Reynolds (Mannings 73); lettered state after quotation re-arranged on two lines."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.2113., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Two lines of verse below title: The suffrage of the wise, the praise that's worth ambition, is attain'd by sense alone, & dignity of mind., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 37 (leaf numbered '65' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and With small ink ownership stamp ("T.L" within a double-lined oval) in lower left beneath painter's name. Also with ink annotations on verso, in a contemporary or slightly later hand: "N16693" and "private plate" written in lower left, and "5 s." written in lower right.
publish'd according to act of Parliamant, Novr. 22d, 1765.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 57. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 585); half-length turned slightly to right, head and eyes to left, in Van Dyck costume; pillar behind; state with publication line, before final alteration of title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., "Sold at the Golden Lamp in Berwick Street, price 5s."--Lower right corner of plate., Mounted on page 57 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and "Earl of Buchan" added in ink below title, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829,
A head and shoulders profile portrait of Miami chief Pacanne, holding a tomahawk across his chest, with bracelets on his upper arms and jewellery in his ears, nose and across the crown of his head
Description:
Title in scratched letters at top of image, partially in reverse; the individual letters are printed correctly but the words themselves run right to left on the print., Printmaker attribution and date from impression at the Library and Archives Canada (Acc. No. 1938-223-42), on which the contemporary statement of responsibility "by Mrs. Simcoe 1794" is written in ink., After a drawing by British Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton, who travelled with Pacanne during the American Revolution. The original drawing is now housed at the Houghton Library at Harvard., A slightly later date is suggested by a contemporary ink annotation beneath plate mark on Lewis Walpole Library impression: An Indian Chief N. America of the Miamis tribe (from life 1795)., and Presumably one of only two small plates etched by Simcoe, which were sent to England in 1794 and printed in Bristol and London; see Dictionary of Canadian Biography, entry for Elizabeth Posthuma (Simcoe) Gwillim.
"Portrait of Thomas Alexander Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, three-quarter length, seated to right in an armchair, glancing towards the viewer, his right arm on chair arm and the left on his lap; wearing short wig, open coat, waistcoat fastened with five buttons, neckerchief and frill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1914,0317.5., Mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 468 (leaf numbered '74' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Contemporary ink annotation "367" in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Feby. 12th, 1782, by R. Blyth, No. 27 Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square
Subject (Name):
Kelly, Thomas Alexander Erskine, Earl of, 1732-1781,
Volume 1, page 23. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, bust, in a mock oval frame, in profile to right, wearing a lacy cravat and a wig with a curling queue; after Gardner; scratched-letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham
Description:
Title from later state., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 23 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and Name of the sitter written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 29th, 1772, by V. Green, Salisbury Street, Strand
Volume 1, page 77. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"This etching gives a portrait to the hips in profile, to our right, of an elderly woman, with a big nose and a protruding lower jaw: she wears a close cap, trimmed with lace at the fore edges; her right hand hangs in front of her body in a listless manner; she stoops."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. A. Young, of Eltham, 1746
Description:
Title from contemporary note in brown ink below image., Additional title from annotation on British Museum impression of a variant state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,1211.148., Printmaker and date from Horace Walpole's note in brown ink, in lower right corner: By Mr. W. Fauquier 1783., Variant (later?) state, with printmaker's initials etched in lower right corner. For a state lacking these initials, see no. 2845 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Mounted on page 77 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
A portrait of Thomas Kirgate, half-length, looking to the right
Description:
Title written in black ink below plate line, in an unidentified hand., Statements of responsibility written in black ink below title, in an unidentified hand: Painted & etched by E. Edwards, 1784; finished by J. Hall., and Mounted on page 18 in Horace Walpole's Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex.