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1. Samuel Foote Esqr [graphic]

Creator:: Blackmore, Thomas, 1740-1780, printmaker
Published / Created:: [4 June 1771]
Call Number:: Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 656); three-quarter length standing, turned slightly to left, leaning on stick, with left arm resting on right hand, wearing patterned waistcoat; curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1833,0610.33., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 16 (leaf numbered '70' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:: Publish'd June [the] 4th, 1771, accorg. to act of Parliament by W.W. Ryland in Cornhill
Subject (Name):: Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777,
Subject (Topic):: Dramatists, Actors, and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Samuel Foote Esqr [graphic]

2. Philospher laughing at magick [graphic]

Creator:: Brookshaw, Richard, 1736-, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1771]
Call Number:: 771.00.00.42+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Philosopher laughing at magic
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication date inferred from another print by Brookshaw: The Flemish ballad singer., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Philosophers -- Skulls -- Mortars and pestles -- Lighting: candlelight -- Bats -- Dog's head -- Books -- Glass bottles.
Publisher:: Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Philospher laughing at magick [graphic]

3. The Flemish ballad singer Le Flamand chantant des ballades / [graphic] =

Creator:: Brookshaw, Richard, 1736-, printmaker
Published / Created:: publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 7, 1771.
Call Number:: 771.03.07.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Two ballad singers, one of them standing on top of an overturned large basket, are singing to a small but pleased-looking crowd by the entrance to an inn. A child standing in front of the basket is reaching up to offer the singer a coin
Alternative Title:: Flamand chantant des ballades
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):: Ballads, Baskets, Children, Clothing & dress, Flemish, Crowds, Signs (Notices), Singers, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Flemish ballad singer Le Flamand chantant des ballades / [graphic] =

4. The Flemmish concert [graphic]

Creator:: Brookshaw, Richard, 1736-, printmaker
Published / Created:: July 23, 1771.
Call Number:: 771.07.23.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A group of men sit at a table inside a large cottage or an inn. One of them, comfortably sprawled in a chair, is playing a violin. A man on the opposite side of the table is singing. To the left of the fiddler, another man is singing from a music sheet. A man in an apron, perhaps the innkeeper, is about to put a large glass with a drink on the table. Behind him on a bench stands a large jug. In the background is a large bed with open curtains
Alternative Title:: Flemish concert
Publisher:: Printed for R. Marshall, No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Flemmish concert [graphic]

5. The bad man at the hour of death [graphic].

Creator:: Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1771?]
Call Number:: 771.00.00.29
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A man in a dressing gown and nightcap, seated on a sofa, leans away in terror from a skeleton-like figure of Death aiming his spear at him. Next to him lies an overturned table with broken decanter and wine glass on the floor. His gouty left foot is supported on a stool; a crutch leans against the sofa. In the background stands a bookcase
Description:: Title from item., Artist and printmaker identified in Thieme-Becker, xvi, p. 180, Plate numbered '14' in lower left corner., One line of quote below title: For the wagers [sic] of sin is death., A companion print: The good man at the hour of death., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Death -- Books -- Furniture: bookcases -- Sofa -- Diseases: gout -- Literature: quotation from Bible, Romans, vi.23.
Publisher:: Printed for Robert Sayer, Map & Printseller, N. 53 Fleet Street
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The bad man at the hour of death [graphic].

6. The good man at the hour of death [graphic].

Creator:: Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1771?]
Call Number:: 771.00.00.28
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A man lying in bed looks upward while Father Time with an hour-glass in his left hand and a scythe in his right one approaches the bed. In the background is a breakfront filled with books. A Bible lies on a chair next to the bed and there are several books on a table at the foot of the bed
Description:: Artist and printmaker identified in Thieme-Becker, v. xvi, p. 180, Plate numbered '13' in lower left corner., One line of quote below title: Let me die the death of the righteous & let my last end be like his., A companion print: The bad man at the hour of death., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Father Time -- Death -- Books: Bible -- Furniture: bookcases -- Canopy bed -- Literature: quotation from Bible, xxiii.10.
Publisher:: Printed for Robert Sayer, Map & Printseller, N. 53 Fleet Street
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The good man at the hour of death [graphic].

7. The Right Honourable Georgiana Lady Viscountess Spencer and her daughter the Hon. Miss Georgiana Spencer [graphic]

Creator:: De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1771]
Call Number:: Folio 75 P839 800 v. 4 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1677); Lady Spencer standing three-quarter length to right, looking to front, embracing her daughter, who stands whole-length to front on table at right, with dog; wearing dress with wide lace sleeves and band in her hair, her daughter in plain dress and bonnet; curtain behind and trees beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3578., 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 John Bowles at No. 13 Cornhil
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Right Honourable Georgiana Lady Viscountess Spencer and her daughter the Hon. Miss Georgiana Spencer [graphic]

8. The presentation in the temple from the original picture painted by Rembrandt, in the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole / [graphic]

Creator:: Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822, printmaker
Published / Created:: [25 September 1771]
Call Number:: Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Mary kneeling and holding out the Christ child to the high priest, who leans down with open arms; a group of men looking on from a higher level between pillars, one climbing down; Joseph standing behind Mary in a humble attitude to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Size of the picture, 2 f. 0 i. by 2 f. 6 i. in height"--Lower left corner., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 212 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:: Published Sepr. 25th, 1771, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):: Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):: Presentation
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The presentation in the temple from the original picture painted by Rembrandt, in the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole / [graphic]

9. [The presentation in the temple] [graphic]

Creator:: Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822, printmaker
Published / Created:: publish'd Septbr. 25, 1771.
Call Number:: Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Mary kneeling and holding out the Christ child to the high priest, who leans down with open arms; a group of men looking on from a higher level between pillars, one climbing down; Joseph standing behind Mary in a humble attitude to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from published state., Proof state with scratched lettering. For published state with title, painting dimensions, new statements of responsibility and new publication line engraved below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1861,1109.248., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill. The published state of the plate includes the text "From the original picture painted by Rembrandt, in the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole" below image; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 160 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:: J. Boydell excudit -
Subject (Name):: Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):: Presentation
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [The presentation in the temple] [graphic]