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11.
[Gothic design for H. Walpole] [art original]

Creator:
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792, artist
Published / Created:
[1767]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3678.4+ (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Gothic design for Horace Walpole
Description:
Title devised by curator., Inscriptions: Scale drawn in below image., Artist's name, possibly in his hand, recto lower left corner: Robt Adam Archtitect 1767., Inscription on verso, unidentified hand: H Walpole Esq., Two ownership stamps in red, one on recto and the other on the verso: Initials "A.C." in a rectangle., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Gothic design for H. Walpole] [art original]

12.
Heyday! Is this my daughter Anne! [graphic]

Creator:
Adams, F. E., printmaker
Published / Created:
[11 October 1779]
Call Number:
779.10.11.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In avenue of trees beside a rail-fence, an old farmer's wife (right), wearing spectales and dressed in black silk hat and mantle and muslin apron, starts back in astonishment at seeing her daughter (left) dressed in the extreme fashion of 1765-1775, with high hair and hat perching on top; at the girl's feet (left) is a small lap-dog
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Copy of a print originally published by Carington Bowles in 1770. See no. 4537 and 4538 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs, 11th October 1779 by Robert Wilkinson, at No. 58 in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Daughters, Dogs, Hairstyles, Servants, and Mothers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Heyday! Is this my daughter Anne! [graphic]

13.
Miss Berry [graphic]

Creator:
Adlard, Henry, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1839]
Call Number:
Quarto 486 21
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher from impression in the British Museum. See registration no.: 1939,0513.140., Henry Adlard, British engraver, active 1828-1869., Longman & Co., publishers active 1806-1839., and Mounted on page 12 with one other print.
Publisher:
Longman & Co.
Subject (Name):
Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Berry [graphic]

14.
[Membership card for a trade union] [graphic]

Creator:
Adolph, active 1798, printmaker
Published / Created:
1798.
Call Number:
File 66 798 Ad23
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A membership card for a trade union with a female figure with an anchor on her left and a shield with three calibers on the right, standing under a broken pediment supported by two Corinthian columns and surmounted by a pineapple
Alternative Title:
Be permanent to protect & not combin'd to injure and Be permanent to protect and not combined to injure
Description:
Title from dealer's description; alternative title from motto etched within image., Date etched in bottom of image., and "Div--" etched in upper left and "No." etched in upper right.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Labor unions and Membership
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Membership card for a trade union] [graphic]

15.
The humoursome scene of the rival counsellors [graphic]

Creator:
Adolpho printmaker
Published / Created:
[1818]
Call Number:
818.00.00.42
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The humoursome scene of the rival counsellors [graphic]

16.
George the Third [graphic]

Creator:
Agar, John Samuel, approximately 1770-approximately 1835, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 June 1816]
Call Number:
Portraits G347 no. 13
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of King George III in profile, facing left, in square frame drapped with cloth surmounted with a crown above and decorated with allegorical figures of Great Britain and coat of arms below
Alternative Title:
George III
Description:
Title from caption above image. and Temporary local subject headings: Citation for portait?
Publisher:
Published June 4, 1816, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Art, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > George the Third [graphic]

17.
The Right Hon. William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville from an original picture by W. Owen, Esq

Creator:
Agar, John Samuel, approximately 1770-approximately 1835, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1815]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, half-length, standing slightly to right, with head turned to look to left; wearing ornate gown of Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and lace cravat; curtain behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue and Half-length portrait of English statesman William Wyndham Grenville, facing slightly left
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 324 (leaf numbered '147' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1815, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Right Hon. William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville from an original picture by W. Owen, Esq. R.A. / [graphic]

18.
Scotland : drawn and engrav'd from a series of angles and astronomical observations

Creator:
Ainslie, John (Surveyor)
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Folio 15 800Ai
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Alternative Title:
Scotland drawn and engraved from a series of angles and astronomical observations
Description:
Title from cartouche., Engraved throughout., Relief shown by contour lines and pictures., Scale of miles 69 1/2 to a degree., Another imprint: "Published according to Act of Parliament Jan. 1st. 1789 by John Ainslie ... and William Faden ..." at bottom of sheet., Inset maps: "Shetland Islands laid down upon a less scale than the map ... "; "A Map of the Orkney Islands ...", Distance tables and lists of heights of hills and roads from Edinburgh to London., Edinburgh meridian, with note of degrees from Greenwich., Title cartouche shows men fishing and herding cattle, with sheep goats and foliage., Six compass roses., This issue not in Chubb, T. Printed maps in the atlases of Great Britain and Ireland., and Scotland.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by the proprietor Thomas Brown, North Bridge Street, Edinburgh and Publish'd according to Act of Parliament with improvements till 1800 by Thomas Brown ... Edinburgh and William Faden ... London
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, Orkney (Scotland), Shetland (Scotland), Scotland., Orkney., and Shetland.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel and Travel
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Scotland : drawn and engrav'd from a series of angles and astronomical observations

19.
Afternoons amusement [graphic]

Creator:
Albanesi, Angelo, printmaker
Published / Created:
publishd. according to act of Parliament the 30 Octobr. 1777.
Call Number:
777.10.30.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A print showing the front elevation of a brothel, with a sign over the door "Young Ladies Educated & Board." At the threshold of the establishment, the brothel keeper (possibly Charlotte Hayes) stands at the front door talking with a young man who holds a riding crop (possibly her common-law husband, Dennis O’Kelly.) The two windows on the ground floor show, on the left, a woman entertaining a portly gentleman, and, on the right, two pretty, young woman, one leaning out the window to view the scene at the door. In the two windows on the upper, left and center, two other women are already entertaining men (one of whom is a clergyman) while on the right, two pretty women look down at the scene on the brothel threshold. On the left, a man reads handbills in a covered alley identified as "Kings Place." On the sidewalk (left) a pedestrian holds a monocle to his eye to better see the women; in his pocket is a paper with a title "Economical Lowe[r?]. On the sidewalk to the right, a flower girl in ragged clothes holds out a bunch of flowers to the young man addressing the madam. A woman (dwarf) crier holds a sheet titled "The Harlot's Progress."
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Hayes, Charlotte, 1725-1813, and O’Kelly, Dennis, 1725-1787,
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Humor, Brothels, Prostitutes, Prostitutes' clients, Clergy, Dogs, Doors & doorways, Dwarfs, Windows, Signs (Notices), and Peddlers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Afternoons amusement [graphic]

20.
Perfect felicity [graphic].

Creator:
Alexander, David, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1824]
Call Number:
824.00.00.22+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate numbered "Pl. 17" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Drawn on stone and published by D. Alexander, 10 Belgrade Place, East Lane, Walworth Rd.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Perfect felicity [graphic].

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