Recent Antiquarian Acquisitions | The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Skip to primary content Skip to secondary content Title : Two men fighting in front of woman Creator : Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist Published : England, 1790 Catalog Record Drawings R79 no. 26 Box D146 Acquired September 2024 An early 19th-century album containing humorous pen and ink drawings, pencil drawings, and small prints, cut from or copied from Thomas Hood’s two long-running collections, Whims and Oddities and Comic Album (1830 edition). Each of the first two pages contains a poem that is illustrated by a pen drawing. The first poem, Thomas Moore’s “Those Evening Bells,” is illustrated by a drawing of the muffin boy and the postman alluded to in the poem. The second poem captioned “Sonnet to Vauxhall by Edward Hibbert Esq., The English Garden Mason” was first published by Thomas Hood in his 1839 collection, Laughter from Year to Year; this poem is illustrated by a humorous drawing of a crowd of upturned faces with exagerated noses from line 8 — “All noses are upturn’d”. Many of the drawings show animals in human situtations, Arcimboldesque figures such as a drawing with the caption “Fanny” depicts a woman composed of fans; many of the prints or drawings drawings after prints are visual puns. Also included are four transformation cards, all hearts, drawing in black ink all with red wash and one with blue and a variety of red shades. The prints in the Comic Album are enngraved by R. West, J.N. Chapman, and T. Mosses after drawings by W. Brown. Title : [Album of pen and ink drawings and prints] Published : England, approximately 1840 Catalog Record 724 820 Al345 Acquired October 2024 Title : The celebrated music, which is on the Organ at Mr. Coxe’s Museum Spring Garden Properly adapted for the Harpsichord / Composed by Theodor Smith. Author : Smith, Theodore, approximately 1740-approximately 1810 Published : London, 1772 Catalog Record Folio 74 772 Sm662 Acquired November 2024 Advertisement for a girls’ school in south London. An engraved vignette at the head of the sheet displays girls listening to a reading, while a vignette at the foot depicts a white and a black child embracing, presumably an indication of the proprietors’ abolitionist sympathies Title : East House Seminary, for young ladies, Kennington Lane, Lambeth, by Misses Watts and Wood Published : [between 1810 and 1820?] Catalog Record File 659 810 Ea11 Acquired December 2024 A street scene in front of a fashionable confectionary shop: A woman and her equally well-dresesed friend reach for her hat after it is knocked off by an umbrella carried by fashionably dressed gentleman. A young boy taking advantage of the distraction steals her watch. From behind the counter loaded with sweets, the shopkeeper looks on the scene with an amused expression Title : The double disaster, or, Inconvenience of umbrellas [graphic]. Contributor : Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher. Published / Created : [20 December 1792] Publication Place : London Catalog Record 792.12.20.02+ Acquired February 2025 A stem of a violet with the heads in profile of eight figures — Sir Walter Scott, Duke of Cumberland, Lord Brougham, King William, Queen Adelaide, Princess Victoria, Napoleon Buonaparte, Duke of Wellington — are hidden amongst the leaves, stems, and blossoms Title : In the drawing may be traced the following profiles, taken from the most approved likenesses Sir Walter Scott. Lord Brougham. Queen Adelaide. Napoleon Buonaparte. Duke of Cumberland. King William. Princess Victoria. Duke of Wellington / [graphic] Contributor : Millard, active approximately 1830, artist. Published : [between 1830 and 1837] Catalog Record 830.00.00.172 Acquired January 2025 Title : Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, : with memoirs of his late father and friends, including numerous original anecdotes and curious traits of the most celebrated characters that have flourished during the past eighty years. Author : Angelo, Henry, 1756-1835, author Published : London, 1830 Catalog Record 53 An584 830 Acquired September 2024 Title : The Alnwick Mercury, Northumberland advertiser, and entertaining miscellany Published : Began June 1, 1854, monthly Catalog Record Folio 61 Al453 Acquired August 2024 An 18th-century British scrapbook with newspaper clippings, some annotated with dates, and some clippings from engraved texts, divided into 10 themes identified with small hand-written labels: Poetry, 9 pages; Literature, (6 pages); Fine Arts Painting &c. (5 pages); Foreign Topography (3 leaves, 4 pages); Natural History (1 page); Agriculture (1 page); Medical Chemical Surgery (1 page); Miscellaneous (4 pages); Biography (16 pages including Horace Walpole obituary), and Sciences (2 pages). The clippings indicate that the collector had a wide range of interests in addition to the clippings of poems and songs (many from the True Briton) With occasional contemporary annotations in ink with attributions and dates. Title : Scrapbook of British newspaper clippings from the 1790s : printed text. Published : England, 1790-1797 Catalog Record Folio LWL Mss vol. 293 Acquired September 2024 Title : An Act to Amend the Several Acts for the Encouragement of Learning, by Securing the Copies and Copyright of Printed Books, to the Authors of Such Books, or Their Assigns (29th July 1814) Author : Great Britain Published : London, 1814 Catalog Record File 652 Ac188 814 1317 Acquired September 2024 Categories "A Collection's Progress: The Lewis Walpole Library, 2000-2014" Exhibit Books & Printed Texts Correspondence Ephemera Manuscripts Miscellaneous Objet d'art Periodicals Prints & Drawings Uncategorized Archives Archives Subscribe by Email Completely spam free, opt out any time. Please, insert a valid email. Thank you, your email will be added to the mailing list once you click on the link in the confirmation email. Your Email Leave this field blank Spam protection has stopped this request. Please contact site owner for help. 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