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1.
Strive not Tragedy nor Comedy to engross a Garrick, who to your noblest characters does equal

Creator:
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1762 and 1766]
Call Number:
Portraits G41 no. 5+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of David Garrick after Reynolds (Mannings 700); standing three-quarter length between Comedy and Tragedy, smiling towards the latter, but allowing the former to tug him towards her; landscape behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Charles Corbutt was a pseudonym used by Richard Purcell., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1321., Text below title: Reddere Personae scit convenientia cuique., and For a larger version by Purcell, published by Sayer and Carington Bowles, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Ee,5.144. See also: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 3, no. 31, page 1016.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779,
Subject (Topic):
Actors and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Strive not Tragedy nor Comedy to engross a Garrick, who to your noblest characters does equal honour [graphic]

2.
Miss Fordyce [graphic]

Creator:
Corbutt, Charles, 1746-1777, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1762 and 1766]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 661); half-length standing slightly to right playing guitar, within a circular frame, head turned in three-quarter profile to left, wearing veil; music book on table to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Publisher's statement supplied from J.C. Smith., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Aa,10.48., Imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement., Mounted on leaf numbered 20 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Fordyce [graphic]

3.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Townshend [graphic]

Creator:
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1762?]
Call Number:
Portraits T753He no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (?); standing almost half-length to right beside a bust, eyes to front, hat under his left arm and his hand inside his coat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Probably after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1849,0328.40., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Arms and three lines of biographical information engraved below title: Died in the 26th year of his age (June 24th, 1762) of the wounds which he received in the battle fought that day at Wilhelmstahl ..., Mounted on board to 51 x 41 cm., and Artist's name "Sir J. Reynolds" added in pencil beneath lower left corner of image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Townshend, Henry, 1737-1762,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lieutenant Colonel Henry Townshend [graphic]

4.
[James Earl of Waldegrave, 1762, Knight of the Garter] [graphic].

Creator:
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1762]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1808); half-length in profile to left, wearing star and sash with short wig; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: J. Reynolds pinxt. ; J. McArdell fecit., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Proof before letters., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 140 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 (Name):
Waldegrave, James Waldegrave, Earl, 1715-1763, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [James Earl of Waldegrave, 1762, Knight of the Garter] [graphic].

5.
[Maria, Countess of Waldegrave] [graphic]

Creator:
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1762]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1896); half-length to right, head almost in profile, wearing a flowered dress and a turban, a plait of hair over her left shoulder; proof before title and publication line."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Early (proof?) state with artist and printmaker names present but before title and publication line added; this state, undescribed by Smith, represents the third state according to Russell., Date of publication based on later state with the imprint statement "Publish'd as the act directs, Jany. 1st, 1762." See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 139 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 (Name):
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Maria, Countess of Waldegrave] [graphic]

6.
Miss Gravile [graphic]

Creator:
Corbutt, Charles, 1746-1777, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1762]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Frances Greville and her brother after Reynolds (Mannings 443); as Psyche, standing three-quarter length to left under a tree, head turned to face front, holding up vase in both hands, her brother William (?) as Cupid stands beside her to left, grasping the scarf flowing around them with his right hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1903,1115.14., Print under Purcell in J.C. Smith., Mounted on leaf numbered 28 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Greville, Frances, 1730?-1789,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Gravile [graphic]

7.
The fair songster [graphic]

Creator:
Van Haecken, Alexander, 1701-1757, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1762]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive; three-quarter length seated directed to left, a book of music held open in her lap, right elbow resting on velvet cushion on a table beside her, wearing a gown with a bow at the breast, hair up with a coil over left shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Clive : from the picture at Strawberry Hill and Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ...
Description:
Title engraved below image, on either side of verses., Alternative title from later state; see Russell., After a painting by Jeremiah Davison that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date "1735" has been removed and title and publication line have been added to the plate; these changes constitute the second state according to Smith, amended to the fourth state by Russell., Date of publication based on publisher's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., Four lines of verse engraved below image: Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge and imprint statement has been erased. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: K,58.180., Plate numbered "319" in lower left corner., and Mounted on page 220 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
Printed for C. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The fair songster [graphic]

8.
Maria, Countess of Waldegrave [graphic]

Creator:
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd as the act directs, Jany. 1st, 1762.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1896); half-length to right, head almost in profile, wearing a flowered dress and a turban, a plait of hair over her left shoulder; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Final state of the plate with title, artist and printmaker names, and publication line present; this represents the third state according to Smith, amended to the fourth state by Russell., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 108 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:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Maria, Countess of Waldegrave [graphic]

9.
James Earl of Waldegrave, 1762 Knight of the Garter / [graphic]

Creator:
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1762]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1808); half-length in profile to left, wearing star and sash with short wig."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 108 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:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Waldegrave, James Waldegrave, Earl, 1715-1763, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > James Earl of Waldegrave, 1762 Knight of the Garter / [graphic]

10.
[Frances Anne Greville and brother as Hebe and Cupid] [graphic]

Creator:
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 July 1762]
Call Number:
762.07.25.01++ Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A full-length female figure holding a vase in her hands stands before a large, leafed-out tree, a open landscape in the distance. At her side, stands the small figure of her brother as Cupid holding her dress and looking off to the left
Description:
Title from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits. and Second state, with letters.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, July 25th 1762 ; sold at the Golden Head in Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Crewe, Frances Anne, 1748-1818,, Greville, William Fulke, -1837,, and Cupid (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Hebe (Greek deity)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Frances Anne Greville and brother as Hebe and Cupid] [graphic]

11.
[Double portrait of the ladies Yorke] [graphic]

Creator:
Fisher, Edward, 1722-approximately 1782, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[approximately 1762]
Call Number:
SH Contents R462 no. 5++ Box 310
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Double portrait of the ladies Yorke after Reynolds (Mannings 1956); as children, whole-length to front, in garden beside sphinx on pedestal; Lady Annabel Grey standing at left with dove perched on her right hand, Lady Mary Jemima running towards her holding another dove, dog at her heels."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies Yorke and Two daughters of Philip Yorke Viscount Royston and the Marchioness of Grey, 1761
Description:
Title and publisher from British Museum description., Title, imprint, and date from Smith: Ladies Yorke., Sheet trimmed with loss of imprint., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in probable loss of imprint. Bottom corners trimmed at an angle., and With title added in Horace Walpole's hand below image: "The two daughters of Philip Yorke Viscount Royston and the Marchioness of Grey, 1761." Also added in his hand are the names of the two girls below each portrait: "Lady Annabella married Lord Polwarth" and Lady Mary married Lord Grantham."
Publisher:
Publish'd accordg. to act of Parliament by Ed. Fisher in Great Newport Street, Leicester Square
Subject (Name):
Grantham, Mary Jemima Robinson, Lady, 1757-1730, and De Grey, Amabel Hume-Campbell, Countess, 1751-1733,
Subject (Topic):
Artists and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Double portrait of the ladies Yorke] [graphic]

12.
George Bridges Rodney Esqr., Rear Admiral of the Blue ... Granades &c. &c. 1762 [graphic]

Creator:
Watson, James, 1740-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1762]
Call Number:
Portraits R694 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1544); standing three-quarter length to left with right hand resting on anchor, left on hip, eyes to front, wearing uniform and sword; sea visible beyond at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, artist, imprint, and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1831,0111.03., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of text., and Mounted on paper support: 403 x 319 mm
Publisher:
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, at the Kings Arms Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > George Bridges Rodney Esqr., Rear Admiral of the Blue ... Granades &c. &c. 1762 [graphic]

13.
Her Most excellent Majesty Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain &c [graphic]

Creator:
Frye, Thomas, 1710-1762, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 May 1762]
Call Number:
Portraits C479 no. 1++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait, half-length facing front, looking to left, wearing a robe trimmed with lace and ropes of pearls tied at the shoulders with bows, strings of pearls around her neck, a cruciform jewel at her throat and another jeweled crucifix pendant at her bosom, hair dressed up with a lace veil and a tiara; lettered state before publisher altered to Boydell
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Name of publisher from the Engraved British portraits and based on Hatton Garden address on print.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament May 24th 1762, and sold at the Golden Head in Hatton Garden
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818,
Subject (Topic):
Queens
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Her Most excellent Majesty Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain &c [graphic]

14.
Her Most Excellent Majesty Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain &c [graphic]

Creator:
Frye, Thomas, 1710-1762, painter
Published / Created:
[ca. 1762]
Call Number:
Portraits C479 no. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, half-length facing front, looking to left, wearing a robe trimmed in ermine with ropes of pearls tied at the shoulders, strings of pearls around her neck, a cruciform jewel at her throat, hair dressed up with a lace veil and a tiara; lettered state before publisher altered to Boydell."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date surmised from listed dates of similar works in Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818,
Subject (Topic):
Queens
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Her Most Excellent Majesty Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain &c [graphic]

15.
Winter [graphic]

Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament October 1st 1762.
Call Number:
762.10.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old man in a fur hat and a fur-trimmed coat sits in front of a fireplace. In the foreground, his daughter kneels in front of fire using bellows to keep it going. In the background, his young son offers his father a bowl of steeming broth
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Four lines of verse below image: In life's last scene the hoary man of years, emblem of Winter, wrapt in furr appears ...
Publisher:
Printed for Henry Parker, opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Children, Domestic life, Families, Fathers, and Older people
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Winter [graphic]

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