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 :...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
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.
A collection of prints and drawings probably assembled in the late 1830s or early 1840s, although the drawings may have been executed earlier. The wash drawings by Agnes Berry are of mostly Italian sites in Genoa, Florence, Naples, Rome, and Nice wit...
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Carriages & coaches, and Costumes
Page 184. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Dutch officer / by Miss Conway
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a five of clubs playing card (56 x 83 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: Dutch officer, by Miss Conway.
Page 183. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
English officer in his morning dress / by Miss Conway
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a four of hearts playing card (57 x 85 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: English officer in his morning dress, by M...
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, and Ethnic stereotypes
Page 181. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
French officer and English alehouse man and Officer francois / by Miss Conway
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a five of clubs playing card (60 x 86 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: Officer francois, by Miss Conway.
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, French, Ethnic stereotypes, Drinking vessels, and Obesity
Page 182. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
German officer / by Miss Conway
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a nine of spades playing card (60 x 86 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: German officer, by Miss Conway.
Volume 1, page 37. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Mr. Baker of St. Johns College Oxon and Mr. Baker of St. Johns College Cambridge
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet. The correct university name "Cambridge" has been added in pencil beneath "Oxon."
Subject (Name):
University of Cambridge. and Baker, Thomas, 1656-1740,
A portrait of the artist Henry William Bunbury shown in profile looking to the right, a sketchbook in his lap and a pencil in his right hand. He is wearing a hat with a broad brim and is seated in an arm chair
Alternative Title:
Artist Henry William Bunbury while sketching
Description:
Title written in brown ink in lower left, possibly in the artist's hand.
A rotund gentleman holds out a long scroll of paper which stretches from above his head to near the floor. A conversely skinny gentleman sits at a table with a look of shock holding out both hands in alarm, saying [the text in ink]: ‘What the Devil do...
Volume 1, page 31. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sir William Sidney and Sr. William Sydney
Description:
Title from note below image, in ink over pencil. Sitter's name with alternative spelling is written in pencil in upper right corner: Sr. William Sydney.
"John Bull, a fat 'cit', walks on hands and feet, overburdened with panniers containing royal dukes and their wives. He raises the left leg to propel the Duke of Clarence from his back into a pond (right); on the Duke's shoulders sit two young women, ...
Alternative Title:
Poor Jonny ridden to death
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1818 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Adolphus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 1774-1850, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character) and English wit and humor, Pictorial
"John Bull, a fat 'cit', walks on hands and feet, overburdened with panniers containing royal dukes and their wives. He raises the left leg to propel the Duke of Clarence from his back into a pond (right); on the Duke's shoulders sit two young women, ...
Alternative Title:
Poor Jonny ridden to death
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1818 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Adolphus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 1774-1850, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character) and English wit and humor, Pictorial
