- Creator:
- Basire, James, 1730-1802, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 April 1767]
- Call Number:
- Topos L847 no. 133++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "View from the river of a palace at Greenwich, built by Henry V and destroyed in the Civil Wars; in foreground to left a small boat with a sail enters the picture, to its left a rowing boat passes the palace"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- View of the ancient royal palace called Placentia, in East Greenwich
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Plate from the series "Vetusta monumenta," published by the revived Society of Antiquaries in London from 1747 to 1835. See British Museum online catalogue., and "Vol. II. Plate XXV"--Upper right corner.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament, April 23, 1767, Sumpt. Societ. Antiquar. Londini
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Castles & palaces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view of the antient royal palace called Placentia, in East Greenwich [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1767]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 70K(a) Box 110
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The adventure of Mambrino's helmet; Quixote on horseback, charging at the barber with his lance, the barber already having dismounted from his donkey and making an escape to right, the basin (mistaken for Mambrino's helmet) lying on the ground; Sancho on the back of his donkey, hailing Quixote from the top of a hill beyond; proposed illustration to 'Don Quixote' (unpublished)"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Adventure of Mambrino's helmet
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Title from Paulson: The adventure of Mambrino's helmet., Text following title: Book 3rd. Ch: 7th., "Vol. I. p. 155"--Lower left, below image. Should be p. 115., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dodsley?
- Subject (Name):
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fighting and Barbers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Don Quixote seizes the barber's bason for Mambrino's helmet [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1767]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The adventure of Mambrino's helmet; Quixote on horseback, charging at the barber with his lance, the barber already having dismounted from his donkey and making an escape to right, the basin (mistaken for Mambrino's helmet) lying on the ground; Sancho on the back of his donkey, hailing Quixote from the top of a hill beyond; proposed illustration to 'Don Quixote' (unpublished)"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Adventure of Mambrino's helmet
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Title from Paulson: The adventure of Mambrino's helmet., Text following title: Book 3rd. Ch: 7th., "Vol. I. p. 155"--Lower left, below image. Should be p. 115., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 88 in volume 1. Plate mark 243 x 186 mm.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dodsley?
- Subject (Name):
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fighting and Barbers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Don Quixote seizes the barber's bason for Mambrino's helmet [graphic]
- Creator:
- Du Bosc, Claude, 1684-1745?, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1767 and 1825]
- Call Number:
- 770.00.00.96++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Scene in a park with high wall and a gate into an alley in the background. Two young ladies lean over the top of the wall looking down on a duel taking place in the foreground. One of the duellists is sprawled on the ground, his wig fallen off. His opponent is standing above him with his rapier aloft. On the right, an apple-woman is trying to recover apples fallen out of the overturned basket. On the left, a surgeon attends to yet another duellist with a wound on his bald head and with his rapier still in his hand. A number of spectators are gathered on the left and on the right in the background. Between them, a lonely gentleman in a bag wig and with his back turned to the viewer, salutes the two ladies leaning over the wall
- Alternative Title:
- Hob triumphs over Sir Thomas
- Description:
- Title from item., Later state by a different publisher of the print first published by John Bowles ca. 1740 (cf. Library of Congress, 4-332)., Publication date inferred from publisher's dates of operation., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: Friend sings. O fly from this place dear Flora ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 38 x 45 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 125 Fenchurch Street, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hob triumphs over Sr. Thomas [graphic]
- Creator:
- Angus, William, 1752-1821, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1791]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Marivaux, bust directed to right, looking to front, with powdered wig, bow and jacket, in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Marivaux
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "Literary magazine"--Above image., Plate from: The Literary magazine and British review ... London : Printed for the proprietors, v. 7 (November 1791)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 132 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs, 1 Decr. 1791, by C. Forster, No. 41 Poultry
- Subject (Name):
- Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de, 1688-1763,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mariveaux [graphic]
- Creator:
- Angus, William, 1752-1821, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1791]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Marivaux, bust directed to right, looking to front, with powdered wig, bow and jacket, in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Marivaux
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "Literary magazine"--Above image., Plate from: The Literary magazine and British review ... London : Printed for the proprietors, v. 7 (November 1791)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 169 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching and engraving ; oval image 9.9 x 8 cm, on sheet 14 x 10.6 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge and loss of text from top edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs, 1 Decr. 1791, by C. Forster, No. 41 Poultry
- Subject (Name):
- Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de, 1688-1763,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mariveaux [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1767]
- Call Number:
- 767.03.26.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Political flight to the moon and Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Five columns of verse below image, titled, P- and Proteus: Mutatas dicere formas. Chousing [sic], cheating, chopping, changing ..., Temporary local subject terms: Kites -- Influence: Bute's influence -- Family compact -- Slang: "lame ducks", i.e., stockholders -- Slang: "Oliver", i.e., moon -- Prerogative -- Ministries: Pitt's ministry -- Mythology: Proteus., and Mounted to 38 x 56 cm. with Bowditch's notes.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Martin, Samuel, -1788, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, and Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > P** and Proteus, or, A political flight to the moon [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Hulsberg, Henry, -1729, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1767?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Plate showing side-by-side floor plans for two levels of Houghton Hall. The image on the left shows a floor plan of the main level of the house; the image on the right shows a floor plan of the attic level of the house
- Alternative Title:
- Plan du principal etage de Houghton dans Norfolk maison Robert Walpole Esqr. &c. and Plan of the attik story
- Description:
- Title in English for image on left is etched in lower left above scale bar; title in French for image on left is etched in lower left below scale bar. Title in English for image on right is etched in lower right above scale bar., Title in English for image on left continues: ... Chancellor of Exqr. and First Lord Comr. of his Majesty's Treasury. Erected anno 1723. Design'd by Colen Campbell Esqr. 1723., Date of publication from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Campbell, C. Vitruvius Britannicus or the British architect ... [London] : [publisher not identified], [1767?]., "P. 31, vol. 3d"--Upper left corner., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title for image on left, statements of responsibility, and volume and page numbering. Missing text supplied from a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 11 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Norfolk.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Houghton Hall (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Floor plans
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Plan of the principal story of Houghton in Norfolk the seat of the Right Honourable Robert Walpole Esqr. ... Plan du principal etage de Houghton dans Norfolk maison Robert Walpole Esqr. &c. ; Plan of the attik [sic] story / [graphic] =
- Published / Created:
- [1767]
- Call Number:
- 767.08.00.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Two columns of verse below image: Hitherto .... I have perform'd. Not without wonder ... Samson Agonistes., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 1 (1767), p. 201., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Westminster Hall -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Personifications: Liberty -- Emblems: cap of liberty -- Emblems: anchor -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Reference to the Glorious Revolution -- Reference to the accession of the House of Brunswick -- Musical instruments: lyre -- Emblems: thunderbolts -- Bible: Samson destroying a temple -- Literature: quotation from Samson Agonistes by John Milton, 1608-1674, lines 1640-1659., and Mounted to 37 x 24 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, Hawke, Edward Hawke, Baron, 1705-1781, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Secker, Thomas, 1693-1768
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sampson pulling down the pillars [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1767?]
- Call Number:
- 767.00.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched at bottom of image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ministers deserting East India reform, December 9, 1766 -- Maps: map of East India -- Coalitions: Bute and Chatham -- Personifications: Popularity -- Reform of the East India Company as a windmill -- Mythology: Atlas -- Hercules -- Personifications: Folly as an East Indian -- Gout: gouty shoes -- East Indians -- Crutches -- Emblems: Dutch East India Company as a windmill., and Identification below title in contemporary hand: Ld. Chatham.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Globes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The British Atlas 1767 [graphic].