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1. [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
- Description:
- Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 20.3 x 15.9 cm, on sheet 21.9 x 16.4 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., Plate 67 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works., and With contemporary annotation in ink at bottom of sheet: Frontispiece to Catalogue of Pictures &c. at Exhibition of Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manusfacturers & Commerce, 1761.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Art
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
2. [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
- Call Number:
- 49 3885.2 v.1
- Collection Title:
- Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
- Description:
- Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., and Bound in before title page of: A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Society of Artists of Great-Britain at the Great Room in Spring-Garden, Charing-Cross, May the 9th, 1761 ... (no. 3 in Horace Walpole's bound collection of catalogues).
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Art
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
3. [Satirical medal of Oliver Cromwell] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1824]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A silver medal from Holland, with satirical images of Oliver Cromwell. On the obverse is a bust of Oliver Cromwell, crowned with laurel leaves and in armor; on the reverse, Cromwell kneels in the lap of Britannia, with his breeches down, as the French and Spanish ambassadors in the background argue over who shall kiss first. Formerly housed in the Library at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 99 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Medals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Satirical medal of Oliver Cromwell] [art original].
