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10. The humours of an Irish-wake, as celebrated at St. Giles's, London [graphic]
- Creator:
- Thornton, T., active 1780-1789, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1794]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Page 244. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate from: The new wonderful magazine, and marvellous chronicle. London : Published by Alex. Hogg, v. 3 (1794)., "Wonderful magazine"--Above image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Irish wakes -- Drunkenness., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 10.8 x 15.3 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge and periodical name from top edge., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm; a small newspaper clipping (3.9 x 6.2 cm) is mounted below print, dated "1773" in ink., and Mounted on page 252 (misnumbered '244') in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by C. Johnson
- Subject (Geographic):
- St. Giles in the Fields (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Churches, Wake services, Dead persons, Ethnic stereotypes, Alcoholic beverages, Intoxication, Drinking vessels, Vomiting, Clergy, and Fans (Accessories)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The humours of an Irish-wake, as celebrated at St. Giles's, London [graphic]
11. View of the interior of Simon Ward alias St. Brewer Church Cornwall [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1806]
- Call Number:
- 806.00.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A quaint delineation of a church-interior during service; the pastor, who is somewhat of the Dr. Syntax type, is holding forth. There is a squire's pew, a rosy, sleepy clerk, a large leavening of fat slumberers (among the rest the sexton and pew-opener), a crowded gallery, worshippers both devout and careless, gazers through curiosity, and the usual elements which made up a grotesque-looking country congregation at the end of the last century, including a man with crutches and a peg leg
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication scored through on plate but legible. Cf. Grego for date confirmation., Sheet trimmed to edge of plate mark on lower side., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Cornwall.
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches, lergy, Interiors, Peg legs, Sleeping, and Religious meetings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of the interior of Simon Ward alias St. Brewer Church Cornwall [graphic]
12. Westminster Abbey [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1809]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 646 808 M58 v.3
- Collection Title:
- V. 3 Microcosm of London.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Interior view of the north transept of Westminster Abbey; a group of figures stand with a guide admiring the monuments; a couple stand in left foreground, the man gesturing upwards."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 93., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 229.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Decr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Westminster Abbey.
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches, Interiors, and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Westminster Abbey [graphic]
13. [The new metamorphosis. 2] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [March 1724]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 73K(b) Box 110
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Illustration to one of the episodes added by Gildon: Young Fantasio (Apuleius's Lucian) enters an Italian church where corrupt priests and gallants are celebrating the feast of St. Theresa
- Description:
- Title and imprint from Paulson., "Vol: I : P : 8"--Lower left, below image., A reversed copy of a print from the 1708 edition facing p. 5, with changes to the design by Hogarth: raised lectern and figures in foreground shifted., One of seven illustrations engraved for a modernized edition of Apuleius's The golden ass: Gildon, C. New metamorphosis. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Sam. Briscoe
- Subject (Name):
- Apuleius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The new metamorphosis. 2] [graphic]
14. [The new metamorphosis. 2] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [March 1724]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Illustration to one of the episodes added by Gildon: Young Fantasio (Apuleius's Lucian) enters an Italian church where corrupt priests and gallants are celebrating the feast of St. Theresa
- Description:
- Title and imprint from Paulson., "Vol: I : P : 8"--Lower left, below image., A reversed copy of a print from the 1708 edition facing p. 5, with changes to the design by Hogarth: raised lectern and figures in foreground shifted., One of seven illustrations engraved for a modernized edition of Apuleius's The golden ass: Gildon, C. New metamorphosis. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill, 1724., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 21 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 14.1 x 7.8 cm., and Date given in Steevens's hand: 1724. With other notes by Steevens that apply to the group of seven other illustrations mounted on same sheet.
- Publisher:
- Sam. Briscoe
- Subject (Name):
- Apuleius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The new metamorphosis. 2] [graphic]
15. [The stabbing of Matilda] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1800]
- Call Number:
- 24 17 791P Copy 7
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 228. Castle of Otranto.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the characters Matilda and Theodore shown at center talking in a church, one on either side of the statue marking the tomb of Alphonso; Theodore wears full armor and Matilda wears an orange gown. Behind Matilda on the right is Manfred, who interrupts the conversation by reaching over Maltida's shoulder and stabbing her with the dagger held in his left hand. The interior of the church forms the background, with statues in alcoves along the wall on the right and a row of arched windows along the wall on the left
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date of production supplied by curator., and Mounted opposite page 228 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches, Interiors, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Homicides
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The stabbing of Matilda] [art original].
16. [Vocal and instrumental music in a church] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bates, L., active 1777-1779, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.00.00.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Musicians in a church, with vocalists singing from books in upper level and instrumentalists below, the latter labeled to indicate their nationalities, Prussia, Ger., Ital, Swiss, and on the far right Engl., possibly corresponding to caricature portrait of Dr. Arne. The bass player labeled Ger. may represent Karl Friedrich Abel. To the right the church congregation is indicated, with men in the foreground and women with the fashionable pyramidal hair styles seated in the upper gallery
- Description:
- Title and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title pencilled below image: The morning concert., and In laid to 30 x 34 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Abel, Karl Friedrich, 1723-1787. and Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778.
- Subject (Topic):
- Church musicians, Church music, Musicians, Churches, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Vocal and instrumental music in a church] [graphic]