Tag Archives: Lewis Walpole Library October 2022

Holyrood Chapel

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Interior view of the ruins of Holyrood Abbey, looking down the nave towards a wall with two arched windows. The building is mostly intact but without a roof; a broken column is seen in the center foreground. Figures with torches stand beneath the windows and additional figures are visible through an arched passageway on the right. The moon in the sky above is illuminated when the print is viewed in front of a strong light.

 

  • Title: Holyrood Chapel [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Published by Reeves and Sons, Cheapside; W. Morgan, 64, Hatton Garden; T. Fisher, 1, Hanway Street, Oxford Street; J. Reynolds, 174, Strand; and W. Wilson, Jun., 16, King William Street, City, [approximately 1840]

Catalog Record

830.00.00.165

Acquired October 2022

The Northumberland poll-book

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  • Title: The Northumberland poll-book : containing a list of the freeholders who voted at the contested elections for the County of Northumberland in the years 1747-8, 1774, and in Feb. and March, 1826 : including a complete collection of the papers which appeared in 1774, and the aauthentic papers, speeches, &c. relating to the election in Feb. and March, 1826.
  • Publication: Alnwick : Printed and published by W. Davison, 1826.

Catalog Record

64 N974 826

Acquired October 2022

Jeffery’s edition of The castle of Otranto

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  • Author: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
  • Uniform Title: [Castle of Otranto]
  • Title: Jeffery’s edition of The castle of Otranto, a gothic story. Translated by William Marshal, gent. from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto …
  • Edition:A new edition.
  • Publication: London : Printed by Cooper and Graham, and sold by the publishers, No. 11, Pall-Mall, 1796.

Catalog Record

24 17 796 Copy 6

Acquired October 2022

Toplis & Sons, tobacco and snuff manufacturers

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  • Title: Toplis & Sons, tobacco and snuff manufacturers, No. 71, Shoreditch, London [graphic] : importers of Havannah and all other foreign cigars & snuffs, & manufacturers of all sorts of fancy tobacco’s & snuffs.
  • Publication: [London] : [Toplis & Sons], [approximately 1825]

Catalog Record

File 66 825 T675

Acquired October 2022

Lucy Waters

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Half-length portrait of Lucy Walter, turned slightly left and looking at the viewer; wearing a pearl necklace, pearl earings, and a blue gown adorned with strings of pearls.

 

  • Artist: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist.
  • Title: Lucy Waters [art original] / G.P.H. delt.
  • Production: [England], [approximately 1800]

Catalog Record

Drawings H263 no. 7 Box D125

Acquired October 2022

High life below stairs

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“Interior of a kitchen showing servants at leisure: a stout woman dances with a black man in the centre accompanied by a man with a wooden leg who sits playing a violin on the left; watched by others on the right, a young woman standing on a chair and supported by a young man, while a seated man wearing a tricorn smiles and points at her and an elderly woman stands with her arms folded under her apron, a dog at her heels; two posters pasted on the wall behind, shelves, bellows and other kitchen implements in the background.”–British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of the same design.

 

  • Artist: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791, artist.
  • Title: [High life below stairs] [art original].
  • Production: [England], [not after 1767]

Catalog Record

Drawings G877 no. 1 Box D205

Acquired October 2022