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British Theatrical and Literary Prints
Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 33
Abstract:
British Theatrical and Literary Prints is a collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century engravings and etchings depicting scenes and characters from 267 plays and stories by 112 authors that were published in England and Ireland during those two centuries. The prints are generally small in format—octavo or quarto in size—and most were extracted from publications.
Dates:
1711-1880, bulk 1770-1820
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library
Lewis Walpole Library Collection of Prints after William Hogarth
Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 42
Scope and Contents:
The Lewis Walpole Library Collection of Prints after William Hogarth contains more than 500 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century etchings and engravings that reproduce the works of William Hogarth (1697-1764), the influential British painter and printmaker. Hogarth and his art have been a long-standing focus of debates about copying and copyright dating from his lifetime to the present day. The commercial success of his work made his images a target for both legitimate or authorized copies and...
Dates:
1749-1875, bulk 1793-1870
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library
Lewis Walpole Library Sales and Auction Catalog Collection
Collection
Call Number: 125 L979
Abstract:
The Lewis Walpole Library Sales and Auction Catalog Collection—comprised of catalogs, lists, and pamphlets issued by a wide range of booksellers, art dealers, and major and minor auction houses—was largely assembled by author, editor, and collector Wilmarth S. Lewis (1895-1979). The collection spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and reflects Lewis’s various scholarly interests, which were primarily centered on the life and work of English author and antiquarian Horace Walpole and...
Dates:
1900-2018, bulk 1950-1979
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library
Lewis Walpole Library Topographical Prints Collection
Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 34
Abstract:
A collection of 18th- and 19th-century prints, mostly extracted from publications, arranged geographically.
Dates:
1688-1900, bulk 1706-1880
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library