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1.
"Enjoying the verdure and silent waves" [art original]

Creator:
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pastoral view of a lush riverbank covered in trees, shrubs, and flowers, and other greenery. A man sits on a rock near the shore and looks to the right out over the water. A house on the opposite bank can be seen in the distance on the right; gray clouds fill the sky above
Description:
Title written below image. A quotation from Horace Walpole's letter 16 October 1769 to Madame du Deffand: I feel myself here like a swan, that, after living six weeks in a nasty pool upon a common, is got back into its own Thames. I do nothing but plume and clean myself, and enjoy the verdure and silent waves., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 109., and Bound in as page 65 in volume 5 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Subject (Topic):
Rivers and Nature
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > "Enjoying the verdure and silent waves" [art original]

2.
Greenwich Hospital [graphic]

Creator:
Allen, James Baylis, 1803-1876, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1876]
Call Number:
Print01097
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain; Greenwich Hospital.
Publisher:
D. Appleton & Co. New York
Subject (Geographic):
Greenwich (London, England).
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Rivers, and Boats
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Greenwich Hospital [graphic]

3.
Das Krankenhaus Bethanien in Berlin [graphic]

Creator:
Umbach, Jules, 1815-1877, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1873]
Call Number:
Print01115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from publisher's date of death., Place of publication from item., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Germany.
Publisher:
Druck & Verlag v. G.G. Lange in Darmstadt
Subject (Name):
Central-Diakonissenhaus Bethanien (Berlin, Germany).
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Buildings, Sedan chairs, Boats, Windmills, and Rivers
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Das Krankenhaus Bethanien in Berlin [graphic]

4.
"Swango," -- the only eclectic cure in this country -- opposite Richmond, Maine. [graphic]

Creator:
Waud, William, -1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1859]
Call Number:
Print00974
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title in lower margin., Originally published in Ballou's Pictorial Illustrated Newspaper, Boston, 7 May 1859., Swango is also called Swan Island, and was briefly the home to a health retreat., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Maturin M. Ballou
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Islands, Farms, Rivers, Boats, and Country life
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > "Swango," -- the only eclectic cure in this country -- opposite Richmond, Maine. [graphic]

5.
[View of Richmond from across the Thames] [art original].

Published / Created:
[not after 1854]
Call Number:
485 842 C76 VI Copy 5
Collection Title:
Page 1. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on death date of T. Crofton Croker, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Mounted on page 1 in T. Crofton Croker's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Rivers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [View of Richmond from across the Thames] [art original].

6.
[View of Twickenham from across the Thames] [art original].

Published / Created:
[not after 1854]
Call Number:
485 842 C76 VI Copy 5
Collection Title:
Before page 1. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on death date of T. Crofton Croker, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Laid in before page 1 in T. Crofton Croker's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Rivers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [View of Twickenham from across the Thames] [art original].

7.
[Album of watercolors of the countryside around Weston Sands House] [art original].

Creator:
Tomes, John, 1791-1863, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1818-1850]
Call Number:
Folio 75 T656 818
Image Count:
96
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An album of watercolors assembled by the gentleman farmer and amateur artist John Tomes showing views of his manor house Weston Sands House and the surrounding countryside. Tomes recorded his estate from many angles and in all seasons as well as picturesque spots in the neighbouring countryside, including several views of the River Avon which bordered his estate. Also included are a series of watercolors taken on a trip to the Isle of Wight. There is also a view of Windsor Castle (?) across the Thames and many watercolors of medieval ruins, abbeys, and castles. Tomes also copied a number of Turner prints from the ‘Liber Studiorum’ (published 1807-1819) and his ‘Picturesque views on the Southern Coast’ (published 1814-1826).
Alternative Title:
Sketches by John Tomes, Weston Sands
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, based on dealer's description., All but two of the drawings are pasted on the rectos of the album leaves; some have pencil manuscript notes giving the location of the subject; some of the first watercolors mounted on the first pages of the album are dated '1818'., Bound in contemporary rust-colored hard grain half morocco and marbled sides, with gilt lettered morocco label 'Sketches by John Tomes - Weston Sands' to front cover, white moirés silk pastedown., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Warwickshire (England) and Isle of Wight (England)
Subject (Name):
Turner, J. M. W. 1775-1851 (Joseph Mallord William), and Windsor Castle,
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Castles & palaces, Abbeys, Ruins, Estates, and Rivers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Album of watercolors of the countryside around Weston Sands House] [art original].

8.
A view from Richmond Hill down the river Paisage du haut de la Montagne de Richmond en dessendant

Creator:
Vivarès, François, 1709-1780, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1840]
Call Number:
Topos Su962 no. 10+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View from the hill in Richmond looking out across the Thames, showing the grand houses lining the riverbank and the fields beyond; elegantly dressed figures and farmers on hill in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Paisage du haut de la Montagne de Richmond en dessendant la Tamise
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., One of a series of plates, originally engraved for John Bowles in the mid-eighteenth century, that were reissued ca. 1840 for Francis West's A collection of Views of old London and its environs. See British Museum online catalogue., and "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image.
Publisher:
Published by F. West, 83 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Rivers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A view from Richmond Hill down the river Paisage du haut de la Montagne de Richmond en dessendant la Tamise / [graphic] =

9.
Greenwich Hospital [graphic].

Creator:
Reeve, Richard Gilson, 1803-1889, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1828]
Call Number:
Print01093
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and date from item., Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published 1828, by R. Ackermann, 96 Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Rivers, and Boats
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Greenwich Hospital [graphic].

10.
Sepolcro di Plautio [graphic]

Creator:
Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1826]
Call Number:
829.00.00.115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of tomb of the Plauzia family, near Tivoli, Italy
Description:
Title from text below image. and Produced by Whitby after her own drawing, and printed at her private amateur lithographic press on her Newlands estate, near Poole Bay in Hampshire.
Publisher:
privately printed
Subject (Geographic):
Italy and Tivoli.
Subject (Name):
Mausoleo dei Plauzi (Tivoli, Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Bridges, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Rivers, and Ruins
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sepolcro di Plautio [graphic]

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