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1. Nemausus arbis conditor Kunegerha. [art original]
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, artist
- Published / Created:
- [17--?]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents W218 no. 4 Box 120
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two sketches of soldiers wearing helmets, one drawing on each side of a single sheet with the titles written below, one in Latin and the other in Greek
- Alternative Title:
- Kunegerha, Profile of a Roman soldier, and Profile of a Greek soldier
- Description:
- Title from item., "Kunegerha" appears in Greek letters., Possibly a juvenile work by Horace Walpole, with the title in Latin., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Soldiers, Greek, and Roman
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Nemausus arbis conditor Kunegerha. [art original]
2. Reverendissimus in Christo Pater Neophytus, Philippopoleo's Archiepiscopus, totius Thracice et Tergovitice Exarcus [graphic]
- Creator:
- White, Robert, 1645-1703, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1704]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents W582 no. 1 Box 120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait in oval frame, Neophytus Archbishop of Philippopolis holding a staff in his right hand and his left posed in benediction
- Alternative Title:
- Neophytus, Archibishop of Philippopois
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Ms. note on verso: Donum Hon: Hor: Walpole Jul: 27. 1776 Gulo. Cole A:M:.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Neophytus, Archbishop of Philippopolis,
- Subject (Topic):
- Bishops and Greek
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Reverendissimus in Christo Pater Neophytus, Philippopoleo's Archiepiscopus, totius Thracice et Tergovitice Exarcus [graphic]
3. Reverendissimus in Christo Pater Neophytus, Philippopoleo's Archiepiscopus, totius Thracice et Tergovitice Exarcus [graphic]
- Creator:
- White, Robert, 1645-1703, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1704]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents W582 no. 1 Box 120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait in oval frame, Neophytus Archbishop of Philippopolis holding a staff in his right hand and his left posed in benediction
- Alternative Title:
- Neophytus, Archibishop of Philippopois
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Ms. note on verso: Donum Hon: Hor: Walpole Jul: 27. 1776 Gulo. Cole A:M:.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Neophytus, Archbishop of Philippopolis,
- Subject (Topic):
- Bishops and Greek
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Reverendissimus in Christo Pater Neophytus, Philippopoleo's Archiepiscopus, totius Thracice et Tergovitice Exarcus [graphic]
4. The Anacreontic petition and song [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 1 Feb. 1791.
- Call Number:
- 791.02.01.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Above the engraved poem, an illlustration shows an angry-faced Jove seated in the clouds surrounded by gods and goddesses including Apollo, seated with his lyre and Momus in a hester's cap with bells. Jove holds a fist full of thunderbolts as he glares at the petition at his feet. In the background is a circular temple ablaze with rays of light. Above Pegasus leaps from Mount Helicon
- Description:
- Title from item., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., and "The constitutional song of the Anacreontic Society, sung by the Chairman or his deputy after the supper which followed the fortnightly concert." See British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Music, Societies, etc.--, Gods, Greek, and Petitions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Anacreontic petition and song [graphic].
5. [Scritti di varie cose antiche].
- Creator:
- Bartoli, Pietro Santi, 1635-1700
- Published / Created:
- [169-?]
- Call Number:
- 49 2371
- Image Count:
- 349
- Abstract:
- A sketchbook of drawings of antiquities, with brief notations about the objects depicted, in multiple hands. Horace Walpole describes the volume in his 1774 Description of Strawberry Hill as "a book of drawings of vases, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities." These very fine, detailed drawings in a variety of media -- graphite, pen and ink, wash, and watercolor -- are in some cases mounted onto the leaves, in other cases, drawn directly onto the rectos
- Alternative Title:
- Drawings from coins, medals, bronzes, etc. from Greek and Roman antiquities and Book of drawings of vases, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities
- Description:
- Pietro Santi Bartoli, Italian painter, etcher and engraver, active in Rome., Title from Hazen., No text; a few notes in Italian and Latin., Title from f. [1r] of item. "The title, distributed over six lines on the frontispiece ... was riddled with gaps -- "SO...TI [or "SC...TI"]/D... / VAR ... /COSE / ANTI / CHE"--which I suggest should be read as "Scritti di varie cose antiche" (Notes on various ancient objects)". From Irène Aghion's unpublished research. Aghion also identifies the artist as Bartoli., Cited in Allen T. Hazen's Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 2371 (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1969) and titled: Drawings from coins, medals, bronzes, &c., In his Description of Strawberry Hill (1774), Horace Walpole cites the volume as: A book of drawings of vases, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities., Rebound in blue morocco by Hodgson of Liverpool, with gold tooled borders and blind-stamping on boards. 'Antiquities. Original drawings' in gold on spine; gilt edges. Binder's stamp on verso of front flyleaf., With the armorial bookplate of Earl of Derby, 1775-1851 and press mark 26. B ; and with the bookplate of Horace Walpole (BP1)., Numbered pages bound in the following sequence: 1-2, 4-5, 3, 6-7, 9-10, 8, 11-16, 18-20, 17, 22-149., Blank leaves: 2-5, 7-8, 16-17, 65. Page 21 missing., and Rebound in blue morocco by Hodgson of Liverpool. Bookplate 1. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of Lord Derby.
- Subject (Topic):
- Art, Greek, Art, Roman, Classical antiquities in art, Antiquities, Roman, Greek, Bas-reliefs, Coins, Medals, and Vases
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Scritti di varie cose antiche].
