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Creator:: Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808, artist
Published / Created:: 1776.
Call Number:: SH Contents B373 no. 6++ Box 300
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: In Horace Walpole's 1784 edition of Description of the villa, he describes the Beauclerk drawings thus: "The beauty and grace of the figures and of the children are inimitable; the expression of the passions most masterly, particularly in the devotion...
Description:: Title, date and artist name written by Horace Walpole on the verso, in ink.
Subject (Name):: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):: Tragedies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The mysterious mother Act 5, Scene 6 / [art original]

Published / Created:: published as the act directs 24 March 1788.
Call Number:: Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The interior of a barber's shop. The barber, ranting and gesticulating wildly, holds up the open tragedy of Alexander the Great; in his right hand is a pair of tongs. His hair hangs loose and on his head is his barber's basin. He is fashionably dress...
Description:: Title from caption below image.
Publisher:: Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):: Actors, Apprentices, Barbers, Barber shops, Cats, Dressing & grooming equipment, Interiors, Laughter, Hairdressing, Poverty, Tragedies, and Wigs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Tragedy burlesqued, or, The barber turned actor [graphic].