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A view of the canal, Chinese building, rotunde, in Ranelagh Gardens

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A view of Ranelagh Gardens during a masquarade, with the revellers wearing masks. After a design by Canaletto. For an engraving of the same scene in reverse, published by Robert Sayer in 1752, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2450.

  • Title: A view of the canal, Chinese building, rotunde [sic], in Ranelagh Gardens, with masquarade [sic] [graphic] = Vüe du canal, du batiment chinois, de la rotunda, &c. des Jardins de Ranelagh, un jour de masquarade / […?] sculp.
  • Publication: [France?] : [publisher not identified], [ca. 1765]

Catalog Record

765.00.00.94+

Acquired April 2022

View at the entrance into Vaux Hall

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“View inside Vauxhall Gardens; the Grand Walk on the left looking down towards the obelisk; the orchestra to the right and pavillions on either side; elegantly dressed figures in gardens.”–British Museum online catalogue

  • Printmaker: Simpson, T., active 1763-1768, printmaker.
  • Title: View at the entrance into Vaux Hall [graphic] / S. Wale delin. ; T. Simpson sculp.
  • Publication: [London] : [Edward and Charles Dilly], [1766]

Catalog Record

766.00.00.70

Acquired October 2021

View at the entrance into Vaux Hall

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View inside Vauxhall Gardens, with the Grand Walk on the right leading towards the obelisk. The orchestra is seen to the left, flanked by pavillions on either side. Elegantly dressed figures socialize in the gardens and walk in pairs down the tree-lined path

  • Artist: Wale, Samuel, -1786, artist.
  • Title: [View at the entrance into Vaux Hall] [art original].
  • Production: [England], [not after 1761]

Catalog Record

Drawings W169 no.3

Acquired October 2021

A scene in a nunnery garden

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Two young women, attired in low-cut, fine dresses, their veils pulled back over their hair exposing their pretty, young faces, sit in a semi-embrace on a blue loveseat in a garden, one looking lovingly into the eyes of the other with her hand posed to encircle her companion. The other, wearing red shoes, with a rosary at her waist, looks down toward the low neckline of the first. Standing next to them is a rotund Catholic monk in brown robes. He points to the two women while with a mischievous smile he looks to the viewer. Below him is the caption: “The Scene delightful, Beauty here, what then! Ah, Benedicite! Men are but Men.” The women speak: “We live recluse and are believed religious, We but dissemble for our Lusts prodigious.”

  • Title: A scene in a nunnery garden [graphic].
  • Publication: London : Printed for Robert Sayer, chart, map and printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs, 5 April 1787.

Catalog Record 

787.04.05.01+

Acquired August 2017

Grove-Hill : a descriptive poem, with An ode to Mithra

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[Cover] Grove-Hill : a descriptive poem, with An ode to Mithra

Title Page: Grove-Hill : a descriptive poem, with An ode to Mithra

  • Author: Maurice, Thomas, 1754-1854
  • Title: Grove-Hill : a descriptive poem, with An ode to Mithra / by the author of Indian antiquities ; the engravings on wood by J. Anderson, from drawings by G. Samuel.
  • Published: London : Printed by T. Bensley, for J. and A. Arch, Gracechurch-Street, and J. Wright, Piccadilly, 1799.

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Bound with: Grove-hill : an horticultural sketch.

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Acquired August, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.

Itemized receipts for produce sold to Lord and Lady Glenbervie…

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Astin, James

Itemized receipts for produce sold to Lord and Lady Glenbervie by seedsman James Austin, 1814 Jan 31-1815 Feb 7.

LWL Mss File 45+

Manuscripts, in a single hand, listing the produce sold to Lord Glenbervie — all vegetables — and the fruit listed separately as sold to Lady Glenbervie for the period 31 Jan 1814 till 20 Dec 1814. The seedsman is identified as James Austin of Kingston. A separate receipt for two-pence and blind stamped is dated February 1815.

Itemized receipts for produce sold to Lord and Lady Glenbervie...Subjects (Library of Congress): Astin, James; Glenbervie, Sylvester Douglas, Baron, 1743-1823; Vegetables–England; Gardens–England.

Lewis Walpole Library new acquisition: September, 2010