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1. Miss Rafter in the character of Phillida [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [between 1729 and 1800]
- Call Number:
- Portraits C642 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Kitty Clive when Miss Raftor, as the shepherdess from Cibber's 'Damon and Phillida' (previously 'Love in a Riddle'); three-quarter length half-turned away from the viewer, looking over her shoulder towards the viewer, wearing a loose gown, hair up, holding a wreath above the head of a young man who leans in to kiss her from left, her left hand on his arm, his right hand on her waist, left arm around her back, holding hat, in a forest with sheep."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Verse below image: "In native Beauty clad without disguise ... And live in Pleasures which alternate spring.", Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6963., Note from British Museum online catalogue regarding artist: "Schalken died 5 years before Catherine Clive was born: this print is simliar to a mezzotint by Faber II after Bleeck (Chaloner Smith 85), and to a mezzotint by Faber inscribed with 'G Schliecken' as the painter's name (Russell 85a), which may have been the source for the erroneous inscription.", and Numbered in ms. at top left of verso: Mint. 5-3648.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Rafter in the character of Phillida [graphic]
2. The celebrated Mrs. Clive, late Miss Raftor in the character of Philida [graphic]
- Creator:
- Faber, John, 1695?-1756, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1734]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 P839 800 v. 1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive as the character Phillida from Cibber's 'Damon and Phillida' (previously 'Love in a Riddle'); in rural setting with shepherd approaching at left with his arm around her waist; three-quarter length slightly to left, eyes to front, right hand seeming to restrain the shepherd, left raised to her shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., State and artist from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.181., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 36 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:
- Sold by J. Faber at [the] Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square Holbourn
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The celebrated Mrs. Clive, late Miss Raftor in the character of Philida [graphic]
3. Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ... [graphic]
- Creator:
- Van Haecken, Alexander, 1701-1757, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1735]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive; three-quarter length seated directed to left, a book of music held open in her lap, right elbow resting on velvet cushion on a table beside her, wearing a gown with a bow at the breast, hair up with a coil over left shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
- Alternative Title:
- Fair songster and Mrs. Clive : from the picture at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title from verses engraved below image., Alternative titles from later states; see Russell., After a painting by Jeremiah Davison that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., State from Russell., Date "1735" following printmaker's signature has been removed from plate; see description of first state in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Verses below image continue: ... heightens our joys, suspends our fiercest pains, this each one proves who hears they heavnly strains., Tipped in at page 195 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., and Sitter identified as "Mrs. Clive" in lower margin, in brown ink in a contemporary hand.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ... [graphic]
4. The theatrical contest 1743 [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [24 October 1743]
- Call Number:
- 743.10.24.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption above image., Temporary local subject terms: London: Covent Garden Piazza -- Pools -- Harlequin -- Playbills -- Signs: "Coffee tea" -- Petitions: petition of actors' grievances, 1743 -- Wages in theater: dispute over wages between actors and managers -- Inflated bladders with signs of characters in plays -- Henry Giffard, d. 1743 -- Richard Winstone, d. 1787 -- Turbutt, d.1740 -- Cashill or Cashel, d. 1748., and Lower left corner of sheet missing.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Octobr. 24th 1743 by G. Foster at the White Horse on Ludgate Hill
- Subject (Name):
- Grafton, Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of, 1683-1757, Arthur, John, 1708?-1772, Fleetwood, Charles Gerard, active 1733-1744, Rich, John, 1692-1761, Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Garrick, David, 1717-1779, Macklin, Charles, 1697?-1797, Ryan, Lacy, 1694?-1760, Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777, Dunstall, John, 1717-1778, Woffington, Margaret, -1760, Pritchard, Hannah, 1711-1768, Covent Garden (London, England), and Covent Garden Market (Westminster, London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life, Occupations, Produce stands, Sedan chairs, and Wheelbarrows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The theatrical contest 1743 [graphic].
5. The Green Room scuffle, or, Drury Lane in an uproar
- Published / Created:
- [29 January 1746]
- Call Number:
- 746.01.29.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Drury Lane in an uproar
- Description:
- Caption title in letterpress below image., Letterpress broadside song illustrated with etching (design 15.5 x 25 cm) at top of sheet. Title on plate: "Totus mundus agit histrionem." Signed in lower right corner: Tho. Booth sculp., Dated by Stephens 1725 from the British Museum impression that lacks the song and imprint., Sheet trimmed close to design and letterpress resulting in minor loss of title., "To the tune of Gossip Joan.", Sixteen stanzas of song in three columns below title: Ye peers, ye cits and beaux who haunt pit, box and gall'ry ..., Describes a fight between two actresses, Kitty Clive and Peg Woffington, which took place in 1746 when Henry IV was performed at Drury Lane, as related by Thomas Davies in his Dramatic miscellanies, 1784, v. 1, p. 231-3. The subjects in the print were identified by Horace Walpole (1717-1797) in his copy of Davies' Miscellanies., Temporary local subject terms: Theaters: Green Room, Drury Lane -- Actors: Owen MacSwinney and James Raftor., and Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd persuant to act of Parliament, Jan. 29, 1746, by G. Foster on Ludgate-Hill, and sold at the print and pamphlet shop in London and Westminster
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Woffington, Margaret, -1760, and Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Green Room scuffle, or, Drury Lane in an uproar
6. Mrs. Clive in the character of the fine lady in Lethe [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- according to act of Parliament, 1750.
- Call Number:
- Portraits C642 no. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character of Mrs Riot (the 'Fine Lady') in Garrick's 'Lethe'; three-quarters to left, looking to front, carrying a lapdog in her right arm, which she rests on the panniers of her skirts, her left hand catching the fabric of her dress; in wooded landscape by the riverside, boating party behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.185., Two lines of text below title: Shew me to the pump room then, fellow; where's the company, I die in solitude &c., "Price 6 d."--Following imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 36.7 x 25.2 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Clive in the character of the fine lady in Lethe [graphic]
7. Mrs. Clive in the character of the fine lady in Lethe [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- according to act of Parliament, 1750.
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character of Mrs Riot (the 'Fine Lady') in Garrick's 'Lethe'; three-quarters to left, looking to front, carrying a lapdog in her right arm, which she rests on the panniers of her skirts, her left hand catching the fabric of her dress; in wooded landscape by the riverside, boating party behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.185., Two lines of text below title: Shew me to the pump room then, fellow; where's the company, I die in solitude &c., "Price 6 d."--Following imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 76 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., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 32.9 x 22 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature, imprint statement, and price from bottom edge., Contemporary annotation in pencil in lower left corner: Worlidge delin., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Clive in the character of the fine lady in Lethe [graphic]
8. The fair songster [graphic]
- Creator:
- Van Haecken, Alexander, 1701-1757, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1762]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive; three-quarter length seated directed to left, a book of music held open in her lap, right elbow resting on velvet cushion on a table beside her, wearing a gown with a bow at the breast, hair up with a coil over left shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Mrs. Clive : from the picture at Strawberry Hill and Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ...
- Description:
- Title engraved below image, on either side of verses., Alternative title from later state; see Russell., After a painting by Jeremiah Davison that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date "1735" has been removed and title and publication line have been added to the plate; these changes constitute the second state according to Smith, amended to the fourth state by Russell., Date of publication based on publisher's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., Four lines of verse engraved below image: Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge and imprint statement has been erased. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: K,58.180., Plate numbered "319" in lower left corner., and Mounted on page 220 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.
- Publisher:
- Printed for C. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fair songster [graphic]
9. Mrs. Heidelberg Baron Otranto. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.12.00.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XXXIV and No. XXXV, of actress Kitty Clive and Horace Walpole
- Alternative Title:
- Baron Otranto
- Description:
- Titles etched below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 1 (1769), p. 617.
- Publisher:
- A. Hamilton
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, and Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Heidelberg Baron Otranto. [graphic]