"Old woman and a boy with candles; he leans over her shoulder from the right to light his candle; she holds a basket and shields the flame with her hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Quis vetet apposito, lumen de lumine tolli, mille licet capiant, deperit inde nihil
Description:
Title devised by curator; alternative title from text below image.
"The brass seal of Henrietta Maria; one face above showing the Queen full-length directed slightly to left holding sceptre and orb, under a canopy with crests to either side and lettered around the rim 'Henretta [sic] Mariae Dei Gratiae Angliae Scotia...
Description:
Title deviser by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669.
"The brass seal of Henrietta Maria; one face above showing the Queen full-length directed slightly to left holding sceptre and orb, under a canopy with crests to either side and lettered around the rim 'Henretta [sic] Mariae Dei Gratiae Angliae Scotia...
Description:
Title deviser by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669.
Wash drawing of a bronze and marble bust of an unidentified young man, perhaps the Roman emperor Vespasian. This statue may have been kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Head and neck bronze the body of ivory
Description:
Title devised by curator; alternative title written in ink below image: The head and neck bronze the body of ivory.
Plate depicting a statue of Ceres at center (labeled "Fig. 1"), with several medals depicted below (labeled "Fig. 2" and "Fig. 3"). Ceres is represented seated, holding a cup in her left hand and various fruits in her right hand; a bull, the emblem of...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
T. Spilsbury
Subject (Name):
Ceres (Roman deity) and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Plate depicting a statue of Ceres at center (labeled "Fig. 1"), with several medals depicted below (labeled "Fig. 2" and "Fig. 3"). Ceres is represented seated, holding a cup in her left hand and various fruits in her right hand; a bull, the emblem of...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
T. Spilsbury
Subject (Name):
Ceres (Roman deity) and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Pair of wash drawings of the curfew, or couvre-feu, from Mr. Gostling's collection that was kept by Horace Walpole in the fireplace of the Library at Strawberry Hill. The drawing on the left shows the object with the opening facing towards the viewer;...
Pair of wash drawings of the curfew, or couvre-feu, from Mr. Gostling's collection that was kept by Horace Walpole in the fireplace of the Library at Strawberry Hill. The drawing on the left shows the object with the opening facing towards the viewer;...
