- Published / Created:
- 9 Novr. 1785.
- Call Number:
- 785.11.09.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '563' in lower left corner., Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original issue without imprint date; dated in the Catalogue ca. 1760., and Mounted.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Architectural follies, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Clergy, Dogs, Gates, Parks, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A master parson returned from duty [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [not before 1793]
- Call Number:
- 785.11.09.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Plomer., Numbered '348' in lower left corner., and Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original print was published by Carington Bowles in 1760 and 1785.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Architectural follies, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Clergy, Dogs, Gates, Parks, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A master parson returned from duty [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- 9 Novr. 1785.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '563' in lower left corner., Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original issue without imprint date; dated in the Catalogue ca. 1760., No. 34 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., and 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; plate mark 35.2 x 25 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 37.2 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Architectural follies, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Clergy, Dogs, Gates, Parks, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A master parson returned from duty [graphic].
- Creator:
- Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1756]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3585 leaf 45 Box 4
- Collection Title:
- Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Design for a Gothic building Lord Strafford's castle Wentworth in Yorkshire, with scale and measurements and notes on the design. In a letter dated 1 September 1760 Walpole wrote to Montagu: " Lord Strafford has erected the little Gothic building which I got Mr. Bentley to draw; I took the idea from Chichester cross -- It stands on a high bank in the menagerie, between a pond and a vale, totally bowered over with oaks."
- Description:
- Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript note in ink in upper left corner. and Formerly mounted on leaf 45 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
- Subject (Name):
- Wentworth Castle (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Architectural follies and Zoos
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Building in Lord Strafford's menagerie at Wentwork Castle Yorkshire by Mr. Bentley 1756 [art original].
- Published / Created:
- published as the Act directs 15 May 1780.
- Call Number:
- 780.05.15.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young woman with her hair dressed high, wearing a calash hood, glancing towards the viewer as she walks to left, arms folded and holding a small book; river and trees in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hats, Clothing & dress, Parks, and Architectural follies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Calash in contemplation [graphic].
- Creator:
- Farington, Joseph, 1747-1821, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1785?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings F226 no. 1 Box D120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- View of a brick tower at the top of the hill; at its runs a stream. Trees flank each side of the image in the foreground
- Description:
- Inscribed in ink below the title: Built by Thos. Greening Esq. (when Gardener of Kensington Gardens under his late Majesty King George the Second) for the purpose of a termination to the view from his house, now Sion School at Brentford-Encl: and also for exhibiting illuminations, and fire works on the Kings birthday, and other public occasions, it standing directly opposite the Kings Palace at Richmond, where his late Majesty usually resided., Inscription in pencil on verso: [Mercer] ?35, Farington of his drawing of ... Monument., Joseph Farington, English landscape painter, 1747-1827., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Kensington Gardens (London, England), Towers, and Architectural follies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The tower on Sion Hill called the Folley [art original].