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This festive season we’re thinking of decorating a pineapple plant for a change. With coats of arms, of course. There’s an art to it. Lady Pomfret understood.

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2022-12-11

The LWL is delighted announce that it is among the Yale University special collections reading rooms reopening to non-Yale researchers next week. Plan your visit: https://t.co/5deXbcIQr3.
More info: https://t.co/E7iDCd1dV4. Email susan.walker.edu with questions

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2022-04-05

Since is under way, we thought we’d share some memorable outfits in our collection. Do you have a favorite?

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2022-02-19

Congrats to Yale’s Nathan Chen ‘24!
Skating has come a long way in the past 200 years


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2022-02-11

It’s time for another LWL newsletter and we want to know what you’ve been doing—send us your updates and announcements for our Fellows’ News section!

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2022-02-09

The Lewis Walpole Library will close Friday, February 4 at 12 noon due to inclement weather.

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2022-02-05

The ‘magic spell’ for creating the fabled Philosopher’s Stone exists in real life. The extraordinary 16th century Ripley Scroll is an alchemical manuscript that maps out the process for producing gold and/or the elixir of immortality.

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2021-11-18

It’s a good thing these ladies are seated in boxes and not the stalls or no one behind them would ever be able to see the performance. This 1829 print entitled “Hat Boxes” is from the series Opera Reminiscences by William Heath.

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2021-04-03

Welcome
Watercolor by David Edward Cronin. Bound as p. 12 in vol 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of “Horace Walpole and his world” ed. by L. B. Seeley, 1884. https://t.co/aWN24BcbSj

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2021-03-20

1771 Mann wrote to Walpole that Thos. Patch "is a genius...[with] an excellent turn for caricatura...but he is so prudent as never to caricature anybody without his consent"https://t.co/ccXJNH92iI. We have 4 Patch caricature groups including 2 painted at Mann's.

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2021-02-23

There’s a lot going on in this mezzotint with etching by John Simpson published depicting George III as “The botching taylor cutting his cloth to cover a button.”

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2020-12-28

Companion prints of tailors published 1773 "Snip Francois" and "Snip Anglois" James Bretherton printmaker & publisher, Henry William Bunbury artist. Hand-colored etching with drypoint.

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2020-12-21

1783 William Pitt became Prime Minister at age 24. Nine years later he appeared, with his unmistakable features & figure, in Gillray's print "John Bull bother'd:-or-the geese alarming the Capitol" published also by Hannah Humphrey.

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2020-12-20

Published “Le trénis contredanse” London Pub. Dec. 12, 1818 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford St. (left). The BM has a corresponding print (right) published in Paris in 1802-12.

LWL: https://t.co/seW1UGNP8C
BM: https://t.co/DvNC5YGlht

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2020-12-13

Pub'd 1800 "The Vision of the 3 Cats" George III as the sultan "...The fat Cat represents the thriving s[t]ate of your Ministers-the lean Cat is a Symbol of the People-& the blind Cat, is an emblem of the most magnificent Sultaun himself" https://t.co/88FNLbmZBj

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2020-12-09

For this here are a Hogarth 1st state & some Hogarth LWL Curator Cynthia Roman wrote about "Copying The Sleeping Congregation" in "Hogarth's Legacy" (Yale Univ. Press 2016). Can you tell which of these is the Hogarth print?

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2020-12-08

"A cartoon possibly made by Samuel Ireland in the late 1700s after an original by William Hogarth, which satirizes royalty, episcopacy and the law through a lunar scene revealed by the telescope. The caption mimics real advertising language..."https://t.co/qfsnNoTJn3
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2020-09-04

“A Vision of the Three Cats, a Fable” is today’s offering for
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2020-05-30