Term time, or, The lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall

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A watercolor drawing of a scene in Westminster Hall with three judges presiding over a crowded courtroom.

  • Artist: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
  • Title: Term time, or, The lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall [art original] / Dighton del.
  • Production: [England], [1795]

Catalog Record

Drawings D574 no. 7 Box D205

Acquired March 2024

Drawings compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family

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An album of illustrations by various artists, probably compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family. The album contains views of coastlines and ports including Port Eliot, home of Mordaunt friends the Eliots of Port Eliot, in the Parish of St. Germans, Cornwall, drawings of ruins, rural scenes with livestock, and a pencil portrait of a girl aged about 10.

  • Creator: Mordaunt family, collector.
  • Title: [Drawings compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family] [art original].
  • Production: [England], [between 1815 and 1829]

Catalog Record

724 815M

Acquired May 2024

Transformation playing cards

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Three, carefully hand-drawn transformation cards. The Ace is a scene of calvarymen, one of whom holds a flag, turned to form a diamond shape that has been highlighted in red. The two of diamonds is a scene in a gothic nook of a cardinal reclining, his hands clasped and his feet crossed; his hat is one diamond and the second his pillow, both highlighted in red. The three of diamonds is an image of three men, shown half-length, all with beards and one with spectacles.

  • Title: [Transformation playing cards] [art original].
  • Production: [England], [approximately 1820]

Catalog Record

Drawings Un58 no. 100

Acquired March 2024

Coming out of a country theatre

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A large crowd of theatregoers file out of a theater and onto the street in a pouring rainfall and high winds that turns umbrellas inside out. One man has fallen and broken his lantern as a woman falls back over him as her shoes are being changed. The audience is a mix of classes, couples, old women, young boys, some carrying lanterns, one with a cane.

  • Artist: Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, artist.
  • Title: [Coming out of a country theatre] [art original] / F.G. Byron 1802.
  • Production: [England], [1802]

Catalog Record

Drawer Drawings B995 no. 2

Acquired April 2024

Term time, or, The lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall

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A watercolor drawing of a scene in Westminster Hall with three judges presiding over a crowded courtroom.

  • Artist: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
  • Title: Term time, or, The lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall [art original] / Dighton del.
  • Production: [England], [1795]

Catalog Record

Drawings D574 no. 7 Box D205

Acquired March 2024

Hard hearted Grower gives poor Boots his due

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A man on horseback struggles to maintain control of his horse as it rears its hind legs, sending a boy scrambling away in the foreground on the right. In the background, another man looks on and grins at the prank he has played with his stick in the horse’s tail; he stands in front of a building (an inn?) with a sign hanging above the entrance.

  • Artist: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
  • Title: Hard hearted Grower gives poor Boots his due, or Boots at posting has a Rig for you – Anon [art original].
  • Production: [England], [approximately 1790?]

Catalog Record

Drawings B87 no. 32 Box D200

Acquired February 2024

Caroline, Queen of England

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Portrait of Queen Caroline seated on a red armchair wearing a black dress with frilled collar and a black feather hat.

  • Creator: Contencin, P., artist.
  • Title: Caroline, Queen of England [graphic] / drawn by P. Contencin.
  • Production: [England], [approximately 1820]

Catalog Record

Drawings Un58 no. 98 Box D166

Acquired July 2023

Mr. Bunberry, 1769

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Profile portrait depicting the young traveller Henry Bunbury wearing an academic gown and mortar board. This drawing was used as the basis for Thomas Patch’s conversation piece of the interior of his Florentine studio painted in 1770 and now in the collection of the Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington.

  • Creator: Patch, Thomas, 1725-1782, artist.
  • Title: Mr. Bunberry, 1769 [art original].
  • Production: [Florence], [1769]

Catalog Record

Drawings P294 no. 2 Box D205

Acquired September 2023

They took her away

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A young woman presumably a prostitute, bare breasted and with a dejected look on her face, is being led up the steps of a building by a beadle or constable, her head bowed in shame. Her infant has been left in the arms of an older woman, stands at the base of the stairs on the right. Another, older child, seated on a lower step in the foreground, looks up at the scene. The building has barred windows.

  • Artist: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
  • Title: [They took her away] [art original] / T. Rowlandson.
  • Production: [England], [late 18th century?]

Catalog Record

Drawings R79 no. 23 Box D207

Acquired June 2023

Human nature is fond of novelty

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An old officer in uniform with a wrinkled face and carbuncles looks lustfully at a pretty young woman as they walk together on a path, his hand grasping hers.

  • Artist: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
  • Title: Human nature is fond of novelty – Pliny [art original].
  • Production: [England], [late 18th century?]

Catalog Record

Drawings R79 no. 24 Box D146

Acquired June 2023