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Title: To a Lady, on her Copying Dante after Clovis. Augt: ye: 19th: 1747
Author: Yorke, Charles ?
Attribution: Mr: C--- Y---e (verso of preceding leaf)
Date(s): 1747 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: On how artists have often depicted poets, and poets written verse in praise of artists, hoping that the lady in question might draw his picture, thus ensuring his own fame
Title: Of a tree cut in paper
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1668 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Praising the skill of a young woman in artistically cutting trees out of
paper
Title: Verses wrote by (Wriothesly) the late Duke of Bedford an. aetat. 13 on Mr
Whoods drawing Mr Taylors (his grace's steward) picture very like
Author: Russell, Wriothesley; 3rd duke of Bedford
Date(s): 1721 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: In praise of the skill of the artist and portrait painter, Isaac Whood,
specifically a picture of the Duke of Bedford's steward
Title: To Mr Higmore a painter
Author: Bunce, William, -or- Bunce, John ?
Attribution: Mr Bunce
Date(s): 1728 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 26
Contents: In praise of the painter Joseph Highmore, celebrating his skill and claiming him as artistic heir to Sir Godfrey Kneller
Title: Journey from Windsor to London in a letter to Tho: Sandby Esq: sent the day after I came home, 1753
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1753 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: On the despondency of the poet, his horse, and his companion upon leaving the company of his friend, Thomas Sandby, artist and architect
Title: Letter to T. Sandby Esq. 1761
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1761 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Consolatory epistle to his friend, the artist and architect Thomas Sandby, using the example of a dedicated curate to argue that wealth is not necessary for happiness
Title: The title of the first part Sylva di Sylvio
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Introductory verse to a series of translations, proposing that they are designed for moral profit rather than artistic edification; heavily revised and then cancelled, perhaps draft.
Title: Upon a statue of Queen Anne, in Windsor
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 44
Contents: Warning against any artistic attempt to depict the beauty of
Queen Anne. Translated from two preceding Latin lines,
apparently an inscription on a statue in her memory.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 46
Contents: In praise of the beauty of a young woman, revealed in an acrostic to be Anne Ward, stressing that even such an artist as Raphael would have difficulty in capturing the liveliness of her features in a portrait
Title: To T.Anson Esq at Shutbro', Staffordshire
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Address seemingly to Thomas Anson of Shugborough Hall,
Staffordshire, urging him to rest content at home after his
travels and to recall in memory the artistic splendours he has
seen
Title: Epigram
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1753 ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: On the English painter Samuel Coates, and his response to the arrival in England of the Swiss artist Jean Etienne Liotard in 1753; contrasting Liotard's famously long beard with Coates's youthful beardlessness
Title: On the Honourable Miss Cornwallis's, now Lady Betty Southwell's,
carpet
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 175-
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: In praise of a carpet apparently woven or embroidered by Lady
Betty Southwell (formerly Cornwallis), regretting how few
British women choose cultured or artistic occupations in
preference to dances and card-games