53 C187 804
Acquired August 2021
659 807H
Acquired December 2021
74 817 So698
Acquired July 2021
53 Im34 814
Acquired April 2021
Portrait of the elderly Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, whole length, sitting on a chair, its back carved with a scallop shell; he holds a book in his right hand with his left hand in his waistcoat. To his right is a small side table with a quill pen in ink bottle and along the wall shelves of books.
746.00.00.31
Acquired January 2021
A copy of the Hogarth’s Frontispiece and its explanation for Samuel Butler’s poem Hudibras with the title engraved above the image and the text below in a single sentence below. Plate one is an emblematic scene with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler mounted on a pedestal on which is carved a relief showing a satyr whipping figures of Rebellion, Hypocrisy and Ignorance dressed as puritans, while he drives a chariot drawn by Hudibras and Ralpho; in the foreground, on the left, a satyr holds up a volume of Butler’s poem as a guide for the carver (a boy dressed only in an apron), and on the right a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia.
Folio 75 H67 768B
Acquired January 2021
Frontispiece shows two gentlemen with red heart-shaped faces and a red heart at their calves.
659 809M
Acquired December 2020
53 P925 S786
Acquired April 2020
763 830 V157
Acquired October 2019
646 801 Se522
Acquired November 2018