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10. [White's Club coat of arms] [realia]

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]

11. The sleeping congregation [realia]

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]

12. [Hogarth painting the comic muse] [realia].

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].

13. Nap in the country [realia]

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]

14. William Hogarth from the original picture in the collection of John & Josiah Boydell / [realia]

Creator:: Smith, Benjamin, -1833, engraver
Published / Created:: [4 June 1795]
Call Number:: Hogarth 795.06.04.02 Object Room B:D
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Copy of a self-portrait by William Hogarth; the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; in the foreground, his dog Trump, his burin and palette
Description:: Title from item., Plate engraved after the original oil painting, done in 1745, now in the Tate Gallery, London. Hogarth himself engraved this image in 1749; cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 181., On verso, stamp of the copperplate manufacturer: [Whitto]w & Son, N. 43 Shoe Lane, Holborn, London., and For the print produced from this plate, see: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 538, no. 10.
Publisher:: Published June 4, 1795, by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
Subject (Topic):: Dogs, Palettes, and Copperplates
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > William Hogarth from the original picture in the collection of John & Josiah Boydell / [realia]

15. [Duchess of Buckingham] [realia].

Creator:: Worlidge, T. (Thomas), 1700-1766, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17--]
Call Number:: 715.00.00.08 Object Room B:D
Image Count:: 1
Description:: Title and artist from curator.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Buckingham, Katharine Manners Villiers, Duchess of, -1649.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Duchess of Buckingham] [realia].

16. [Lord Chesterfield] [realia].

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].

17. [Mary Kirk] [realia].

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].

18. Knives, scissors to grind [realia]

Published / Created:: [not before 1795]
Call Number:: 795.00.00.86 Object Room B:D
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Same image as the one that appears as Plate 6 of Wheatley's Cries of London. This plate shows two women standing before a knife grinder and his cart equiped with a grinding wheel, on the sidewalk before an open door and under a street lamp. In the background on the right, a woman carrying a baby on her back walks away from the scene
Description:: Title from item. and Engraved after Francis Wheatley, who first exhibited his series of oil paintings depicting London street-sellers at the Royal Academy between 1792 and 1795.
Subject (Topic):: Copperplates, Grinding wheels, Infants, Mothers, Scissors, and Street vendors
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Knives, scissors to grind [realia]