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2.
- Creator:
- Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1838]
- Call Number:
- 837.00.00.37
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Full length portrait of Thomas Fraser, stable-hand, holding his broom and a glass of whisky as he dances a reel in gratitude before the lady from whom he has received the glass
- Description:
- Title and imprint from Kay volume. and Plate from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1838, Appendix, no. 18.
- Publisher:
- Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder
- Subject (Geographic):
- Scotland
- Subject (Name):
- Fraser, Thomas, -1789.
- Subject (Topic):
- Eating & drinking, Dance, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Thomas Fraser a natural] [graphic]
3.
- Creator:
- Wigstead, Henry, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1773]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W662 no. 2 Box D170
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor depicting a man, shown full-length, playing a violin and wearing a jacket trimmed with gold tassels. On the right a young lady dances to the tune. The dancer, with blue ribbon tied around her waist, discreetly lifts up her skirt to performing the dancing steps while turning her head towards the musician
- Alternative Title:
- Country dance
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger. and Date and artist suggested by curator based on costume and style.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance, Violins, Musicians, and Young adults
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The dancing lesson] [art original].
4.
- Creator:
- Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 April 1782]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 32. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three young women dancing holding their hands, within oval; young boy seated on carved stone playing flute on left, landscape in the background, after Henry Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title, artist and printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.951., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 32 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Statements of responsibility added in ink below image: H. Bunbury Esqr. delint. ; engraved by F. Bartolozzi.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd April 10th, 1782, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance and Flutes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The dance] [graphic].
5.
- Creator:
- Ryder, Thomas, 1746-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- May 1, 1799.
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 799.05.01.01+ Box 210
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Couples dance in a large room with a chandelier overhead; the moon shines through the bow window on the right
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Series title from caption below image; plate number in upper right., Plate from: Graphic illustrations of Hogarth from pictures and drawings in the possession of Samuel Irland author of this work, v. 2, opposite page 130., and Prints trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint. Imprint from impressions as issued in bound volume: Lewis Walpole Library 75 H67 S794.
- Publisher:
- Pub. for S. Ireland
- Subject (Topic):
- Chandeliers, Couples, Dance, and Sconces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The dance, after Hogarth's The country dance] [graphic]
6.
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1826]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C9 824 no. 24
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Scene in a crowded room lit by a few guttering candles, 'far exceeding in profligacy and dissipation' anything depicted by R obert Cruikshank in St. Giles. Men and women fight, drink, and smoke. An old soldier fiddles, a woman beats a drum for dancers who are almost hidden but apparently naked. Cruikshank stands on a table, pouring gin from a large tankard inscribed 'R.C' into raised glasses. One prostitute squirts liquid from her mouth at another, a third pulls on her stockings, incidents taken from Hogarth's 'Rake's Progress' (plate iii). 'Blackmantle' watches the fight, smoking a long pipe. On the walls are placards: 'No trust' and 'Pig and Whistle: Rules of the Club." British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Buff Club, at the Pig and Whistle, Avon Street, Bath
- Description:
- Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15232 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 2, Page 386.
- Publisher:
- Sherwood & Co.
- Subject (Name):
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clubhouses, Crowds, Dance, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Intoxication, Musicians, Pipes (Smoking), Prostitutes, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The Buff Club, at the Pig & Whistle, Avon Street, Bath] [graphic].
7.
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1750?]
- Call Number:
- 750.00.00.66
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In two rows of three, from top left: a young man, his right knee resting against a rock, pulls back his short cape to reveal a small bouquet of flowers; a young couple embrace and toasting with wine glasses; a young couple seated and in conversation; a young woman in a headdress with feathers and touches to her face a folded fan; a couple dance; an older, short woman stands in profile to the right, her head slightly turned towards the viewer
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: royal cipher with initials GR inside a cirle.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Courtship, Dance, Men, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Six vignettes of men, women, and couples in period costumes] [graphic].
8.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1776]
- Call Number:
- Drawings R79 no. 1 Box D145
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Studies of two couples and two men, most with caricatured faces. One of the couples is dancing (?); the other is shown with the woman sitting on the man's lap, he with a lewd grimace on his face
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Thomas Rowlandson., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Dance, and Men
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Sheet of figure studies] [art original].
9.
- Published / Created:
- [1780?]
- Call Number:
- 780.05.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloer., Sheet trimmed within plate line; lower right corner missing., and Mounted on sheet 24 x 35 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance, Children, Sedan chairs, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [May Day. 1780] [graphic].
10.
- Creator:
- Thomson, Henry, 1773-1843, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1843]
- Call Number:
- 532 C768d Copy 3
- Collection Title:
- Frontispiece. Poems by Mr. Gray.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two women in neoclassical dress hold garlands and dance around a bust statue of Thomas Gray; trees and bushes are seen in the background
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower left corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Bound in as the frontispiece in an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Gray's Poems.
- Subject (Name):
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771,
- Subject (Topic):
- Women, Dance, and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to Gray's Poems] [art original]
