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The Recent Antiquarian Acquisitions blog features new additions of early materials to the Lewis Walpole Library’s collection. Suggestions and comments are welcome.
The Lewis Walpole Library is a research center for eighteenth-century studies and an essential resource for the study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. Its collections include important holdings of eighteenth-century British prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, paintings, and decorative arts, as well as a growing collection of sources for the study of New England Native Americans.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Prints & Drawings Books & Printed Texts Etchings Satires Manuscripts Brit tracts Engravings Annotations (Provenance) Satires (Visual works) Ephemera Broadsides Watermarks Portrait prints Woodcuts Queen Caroline Dogs Lewis Walpole Library November 2020 Lithographs Book illustrations Lewis Walpole Library January 2021
Life of Mary Kent, alias Mrs. Bertram
4 December 2023
Title: Life of Mary Kent, alias Mrs. Bertram : well known in the fashionable circles as Mother Bang … anecdotes of Jew-Bella … with a letter by Mrs. Bertram. Edition:...
Mrs. Clarke’s patent extinguisher
1 December 2023
“Mrs. Clarke sits on Wardle’s right shoulder, to place over the head of the Duke of York a giant extinguisher which covers all but his legs and (military) coat-tails. At the apex...
A plan of discipline, composed for the use of the militia
30 November 2023
This work became eventually an army text book Author: Windham, William, 1717-1761. Title: A plan of discipline, composed for the use of the militia of the county of Norfolk. Published:...
29 November 2023
An old woman in patched-up clothes with her harp huddles in a doorway. The satire contrasts the life of a street singer with the sweet lyrics of the popular ballad by Thomas Moore....