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11.
Thomas Tickell from an original picture in the Hall of Queens College, Oxford / [graphic]

Creator:
Clamp, R., active 1788-1798, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 November 1796]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Thomas Tickell; half length, to the right, head turned and looking to the left; wearing open jacket, cravat, and periwig; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1 Nov. 1796 by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Tickell, Thomas, 1685-1740,
Subject (Topic):
Poets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Thomas Tickell from an original picture in the Hall of Queens College, Oxford / [graphic]

12.
[Poets] [graphic]

Creator:
Landseer, John, 1769-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 November 1796]
Call Number:
Folio 724 812 B68
Collection Title:
Plate [183] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; vignette with eight portrait medallions of poets on a stone standing in water with lyre in centre, weeping willow overhanging and temple of muses behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue.
Publisher:
Published Nov. 2, 1796, by R. Bowyer
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718,, Dryden, John, 1631-1700,, Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719,, Wycherley, William, 1640-1716,, and Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721,
Subject (Topic):
Poets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Poets] [graphic]

13.
Lewis Theobald [graphic]

Published / Created:
[20 January 1794]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Copy of a detail from Hogarth's Distressed poet, showing Theobald at his writing desk in his attic room, scratching his head under his wig
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20th 1794 by Wm. Richardson, Castle St., Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Theobald, Mr. 1688-1744 (Lewis),
Subject (Topic):
Writing, Poets, and Great Britain
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lewis Theobald [graphic]

14.
The distresst poet [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1794]
Call Number:
Hogarth 794.00.00.172 Box 125
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an attic, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes. He is seated on a chair; behind him his bed is folded up in his sparsely furnished garret. Beside him is a ink well and a candle in a bottle. He rests his left elbow on a pile of b...
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Wonderful magazine?
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Interiors, Poets, Poor persons, and Poverty
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The distresst poet [graphic].

15.
Lewis Theobald [graphic]

Published / Created:
[20 January 1794]
Call Number:
Hogarth 794.01.20.05 Impression 1 Box 135
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Copy of a detail from Hogarth's Distressed poet, showing Theobald at his writing desk in his attic room, scratching his head under his wig
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20th 1794 by Wm. Richardson, Castle St., Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Theobald, Mr. 1688-1744 (Lewis),
Subject (Topic):
Writing, Poets, and Great Britain
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lewis Theobald [graphic]

16.
Lewis Theobald [graphic]

Published / Created:
[20 January 1794]
Call Number:
Hogarth 794.01.20.05 Impression 2 Box 135
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Copy of a detail from Hogarth's Distressed poet, showing Theobald at his writing desk in his attic room, scratching his head under his wig
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20th 1794 by Wm. Richardson, Castle St., Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Theobald, Mr. 1688-1744 (Lewis),
Subject (Topic):
Writing, Poets, and Great Britain
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lewis Theobald [graphic]

17.
New cloathed poets!! [art original].

Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1792?]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 17 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two fashionably dressed poets sit at a table ladling a drink into small glasses. Twelve lines of verse below design: No more shall we sneak, or fearfully speak, lest coffee house critics should snap off each nose, for all shall be witty, ingenious and...
Alternative Title:
New clothed poets!!
Description:
Title from caption inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Coffeehouses, Eating & drinking, and Poets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > New cloathed poets!! [art original].

18.
John Armstrong M.D. [graphic]

Creator:
Fisher, Edward, 1722-approximately 1782, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1760 and 1789?]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait seen almost half-length to right, head in three-quarter profile to right, wearing wig and partially open coat; after Reynolds (Mannings 73); lettered state after quotation re-arranged on two lines."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Armstrong, John, 1709-1779,
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, British, and Poets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Armstrong M.D. [graphic]

19.
[Portrait of Thomas Gray] [art original].

Creator:
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1788]
Call Number:
LWL Ptg. 123 Framed, UFS Rack 3C
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Thomas Gray in profile. Gray wears a powdered wig and dark coat and vest. He gazes through a window at a landscape. Visible in the distance is St. Giles’s church at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England. The church is the sett...
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771,
Subject (Topic):
Poets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of Thomas Gray] [art original].

20.
Ann Yearsley, the Bristol milkwoman

Creator:
Grozer, J. (Joseph), printmaker
Published / Created:
[16 May 1787]
Call Number:
Portraits Ye39 no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three-quarter length, directed towards the right, and looking thoughtfully to the front, sitting at a table with an open notebook and an inkstand, right hand holding a quill, left hand touching the side of her face; written in the notebook are four l...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs May 16th, 1787, by Sarah Shiells, Lambeth Terrace; Mr. Dickinson, Bond Street; & Mr. Boydell, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Yearsley, Ann, 1753-1806,
Subject (Topic):
Poets, Women, Inkstands, and Writing materials
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Ann Yearsley, the Bristol milkwoman

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