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Drawing showing the interior of the Great Parlour or Refectory at Strawberry Hill. The chimney-piece is visible at left, above which hang the portraits of Sir Horace and Galfridus Mann flanking a painting by Reynolds. On the right, the large painting ...
Description:
Title written in ink below image.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Parlors, Interiors, Chimneypieces, Chairs, Sofas, Clocks, and Windows
The husband and wife of British Museum satires number 14307 sit in a luxurious breakfast parlour, turning their backs on each other and the table. She caresses a cat, facing an empty grate (right); he is absorbed in a newspaper
"Two men sit beside a blazing fire in a well-furnished room, overcome by drink, and fast asleep. One, a stout officer in regimentals, wearing a cocked hat, seated in an arm-chair (right), has thrust his wooden leg into the fire, where it is burning. T...
Alternative Title:
Bon companions
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 15th, 1790, by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
A caricature with a conversation between two men, one of whom has just arrived at the door, umbrella in hand, and the other who sits in a chair in front of his fireplace, feet warming at the grate, as he boils his egg for breakfast. Behind him is a ta...
Print shows a hideous old maid standing at right before her chair, supported on a crutched stick, as she addresses a comic doctor at left, who faces her, much disconcerted, with his gold-headed cane pressed to his chin. Her dress is antiquated, with h...
Alternative Title:
Walking hospital
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 24, 1813, by Jas. Whittle, & Richd. H. Laurie, Fleet Street, London
"Mrs. Boswell (left) and Johnson (right) sit on opposite sides of a small square tea-table; Boswell sits between them on the farther side of the table, with a complacent expression, his right hand on his breast, his left held towards Johnson, as if di...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-le-bone Street Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, -1789, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"Mrs. Boswell (left) and Johnson (right) sit on opposite sides of a small square tea-table; Boswell sits between them on the farther side of the table, with a complacent expression, his right hand on his breast, his left held towards Johnson, as if di...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-le-bone Street Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, -1789, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"Mrs. Boswell (left) and Johnson (right) sit on opposite sides of a small square tea-table; Boswell sits between them on the farther side of the table, with a complacent expression, his right hand on his breast, his left held towards Johnson, as if di...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-le-bone Street Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, -1789, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
