Subject Heading: Poets - Yale University Library Search Results

Published / Created:: [28 May 1772]
Call Number:: 772.05.28.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An impoverished-looking man, with a sword, out-at-elbows, and a hole in the bag of his wig, is walking away from the viewer looking backwards at him. He holds a 'Map of Peru' in his right hand and a book, his tricorne and an umbrella under his left ar...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the act directs, May 28, 1772, by Picot, St. Martins Lane
Subject (Topic):: Poets and Maps
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A French poet [graphic].

Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1730?]
Call Number:: Portraits C875 no. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Title from caption below image
Alternative Title:: Abrahamvs Cowleius
Description:: Title from caption below image.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667,
Subject (Topic):: Poets and English
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Abrahamus Cowleius Anglorum Pindarus flaccus maro deliciae decus desiderium aevi sui / [graphic]

Creator:: Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1738.
Call Number:: Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of Ben Jonson, bust seen in profile to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a draped coat; in an ornamental oval decorated with roses and laurel; below a young satyr holding a sceptre with a fool's head; books and a theatrical mask in low...
Alternative Title:: Ben Jonson
Description:: Title from text in image.
Publisher:: Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637,, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637., and Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
Subject (Topic):: Art collections and Poets
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Ben: Johnson [graphic]

Creator:: Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1742.
Call Number:: Portraits C496 no. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, half-length directed to right, wearing a capuchon and a pen case hanging from a ribbon around his neck; in ornamental oval frame on a bracket; a lyre and scrolls below; before publisher's address"--British Museu...
Description:: Title from text in image.
Publisher:: Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400,
Subject (Topic):: Poets
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Geoffrey Chaucer [graphic]

Creator:: Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker
Published / Created:: [30 January 1816]
Call Number:: Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Head-and-shoulders portrait of English poet Lord Byron, in left profile
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Published Jany. 30, 1816, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824, and Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Subject (Topic):: Poets
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron [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]

Creator:: Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1743.
Call Number:: Portraits D799 no. 1+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of John Dryden, bust in profile to right but looking at the viewer; in an ornamental oval; theatrical attributes below; state with publisher's address."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from text in image.
Publisher:: Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Dryden, John, 1631-1700,
Subject (Topic):: Poets and Dramatists
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > John Dryden [graphic]

Published / Created:: [approximately 1740]
Call Number:: Folio 724 743 H432 Box 3 Folder 19 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Oval portrait of John Milton as a young man, bust in frontal view, wearing a ruff and buttoned jacket
Description:: Title devised by curator, based on published print after this drawing.
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Milton, John, 1608-1674,
Subject (Topic):: Poets
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > John Milton [art original].

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]

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]

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