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2.
- Creator:
- Worlidge, T. (Thomas), 1700-1766, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1715 and 1766]
- Call Number:
- 715.00.00.07 Object Room B:D
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders slightly to left, head turned to right and glancing towards the viewer, wearing a low-necked gown with a rope of pearls hanging from the shoulder and a veil over her hair; in an oval
- Description:
- Title, artist and date from print in the British Museum online catalogue. and Tentatively identified Madame Kirk based on an annotated impression at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
- Subject (Name):
- Kirk, Mary
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Mary Kirk] [realia].
3.
- Creator:
- Worlidge, T. (Thomas), 1700-1766, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1715]
- Call Number:
- 715.00.00.06 Object Room B:D
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Philip Stanhope, bust, three-quarter to right, looking towards the viewer, in wig and lace cravat, in oval
- Description:
- Title and artist from British Museum online catalogue. and After a painting by Sir Peter Lely.
- Subject (Name):
- Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of, 1633-1713
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Lord Chesterfield] [realia].
4.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
- Published / Created:
- [21 April 1762]
- Call Number:
- 736.10.00.01 Object Room B:D
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- The scene is the interior of a perpendicular Gothic church. The sand in the hourglass has run out, but the preacher continues to lecture, oblivious to the fact that his congregation has fallen asleep. The clerk below the pulpit eyes the bosom of the young woman sleeping in the lower right, fan in one hand and a book open to "... of Matrimony" about to slip from her fingers
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., One of only a handful of Hogarth's original plates that have survived, this plate shows the work of the artist over a period of years, from its creation in 1736 with the evidence of later changes made in 1762 as a more mature artist., "Price one shilling.", Copper plate for print described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 2285., and For a description of the prints from this copper plate see R. Paulson's: Hogarth's graphic works, no. 140.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The sleeping congregation [realia]
5.
- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.98
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Copper plate for the satirical coat of arms, engraved heraldically, with cards, dice, Earls coronet (Lord Darlington) shaking a dice-box. The arms are encircled by a claret bottle ticker, by way of order. Designed by Horace Walpole and friends (Dick Edgecumbe, and George Selwyn among others).
- Alternative Title:
- Cog it amor nummi
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clubs, Playing cards, Coats of arms, and Copperplates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [White's Club coat of arms] [realia]
6.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.43 Shelved in UFS Object Room E-4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A self-portrait of Hogarth painting Thalia, the Comic Muse holding a satyr's mask in her left hand and a book in her right hand. On the pillar to her left is engraved the words "Comedy 1764." Hogarth is seated in a chair leaning forward toward the easel, looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat; he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife, a pot of oil on the floor beside the chair. A volume of prints and a burin can be seen in a niche in the wall behind the easel. Leaning against the leg of the easel is a copy of "Analysis of Beauty", the accompanying print protruding from its pages
- Alternative Title:
- William Hogarth 1764
- Description:
- Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., After the painting in the National Portrait Gallery., For a description of prints from this plate, see R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 204., and See Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Print and Drawings of the British Museum, v. 2, p. 539.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
- Subject (Topic):
- Painting, Muses (Greek deities), Artists, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Hogarth painting the comic muse] [realia].
7.
- Creator:
- Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 May 1776]
- Call Number:
- 776.05.02.01 Shelved in UFS Object Room E-4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A portrait, bust, of George Simon Harcourt while still Viscount, nearly in profile looking to the right and wearing a lacy cravat and a wig with a curling queue; in a mock oval frame
- Description:
- Title from item., With plate maker's name stamped on verso: Whittow & Large. Partners Benjamin Whittow and Thomas Large were located in Shoe Lane., This copper plate was originally executed by V. Green in 1772 for an edition published by him. The plate has been altered for a second edition published by Shropshire., and For published prints from this plate see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, p. 437.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs May 2, 1776 by W. Shropshire, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > George Simon Harcourt, Vicount Nuneham [realia]
8.
- Published / Created:
- [1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.00.00.138 On display in the Long Hall
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Mr. Horace Walpole
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger. and Copper plate for Horace Walpole's engraved bookplate; design after George Vertue, with Walpole family motto in Latin: Fari quae sentiat in scroll above and his name as "Mr Horace Walpole" with flourishes below.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Copperplates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Horace Walpole's bookplate type 2, later state] [realia].
9.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.00.00.118+ Shelved in UFS Object Room E-4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Two designs on the same plate. Upper design: A young woman lies under a tree asleep, partly supported by a small beer barrel; a rake is beside her. Next her a young man sits up yawning and stretching. A dog sits beside them; in the distance are sheep. Lower design: A young woman (right) lies full length on a sofa; next her in the opposite corner of the sofa is an elderly man in regimentals, also asleep. The feet of both rest on a chair (left). A cat sleeps on the floor
- Alternative Title:
- Nap in town
- Description:
- Lettered beneath each image with title; lettering within image on upper design: "Rowlandson. 1785."; below lower design: "London Pubd by S.Alken, No.3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho".
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho
- Subject (Topic):
- Agricultural laborers, Cats, Chairs, Couples, Dogs, Obesity, Sheep, Sleeping, Sofas, and Yawning
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Nap in the country [realia]
10.
- Published / Created:
- [1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.00.00.107 Object Room B:D
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Sigillum Horatii Comitis de Orford
- Description:
- Title from: Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's Library, p. xxiv-xxv.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Seals (Insignia)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Orford bookplate, Type 2] [realia].