Horace Walpole’s copy with his armorial bookplate.
49 860
Acquired August 2004
A lady walking along a high orchard wall has her enormous headdress, trimmed with lace and ribbons, pulled from her head by a monkey perched atop the wall. She clasps her hand to her bare head, a look of surprise on her face. A man perched on a ladder picking apples in the orchard looks over the wall in amusement at the scene. A butcher’s boy with a large tray stands in the street equally amused by the scene.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
776.10.25.01+
Acquired April 2003
Printed handbill with ornamental border soliciting funds and warning against persons who “go about with intent to defraud us and impose upon you … “
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
File 63 823 H317
Acquired December 2007
George IV, looking into a full length mirror, is startled by the sight of the likeness of his estranged wife, Caroline looking back at him over the shoulder of his reflection in the mirror. He wears a crown, his coronet and feathers discarded on the floor beside him. The carpet, chair, and table-cloth are decorated with the Royal Arms.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
820.02.11.01
Acquired July 2007
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
812.05.30.01 Impression 2
Acquired 2005
An artist (left) with a caricatured face looks on with horror as a bust falls on the head of the Lord, the sitter, who jumps and shrieks with pain, his foot breaking the window (right). In the background the Lord’s round, well-dressed wife looks on in horror. Sketch on verso in pencil shows a boxer with gloves in a fighting stance. The figures in ink on recto, the artist and his lordship, bleed-through the image on verso.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
Drawings G761 no. 1 Box123
Acquired November 2013
Horace Walpole’s copy with his shelfmark.
49 2352
Acquired October 2013
Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence
Acquired March 2013
Manuscript account book of the collier brig The Royal Briton, for the years 1762 to 1785, in brown ink with columns ruled in red. Built in the Whitby ship yard of George Langborn the ship was active in the coal and timber trades in Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, and Norway.
LWL Mss Vol. 197
Acquired August 2012
Manuscript, in a single hand, dated and signed by the two appraisers, Thomas Watts and Thomas Roberts. The inventory includes the deceased’s clothes, furniture, household goods, and tools. The value totaled £13.9.3.
LWL Mss File 95
Acquired July 2012