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Digital Collections: Digital Image Collection

Summary

The Lewis Walpole Library Digital Image Collection presents images of visual materials from Library's collection. The majority of the Library's world-renowned collection of English caricatures and political satirical prints from the late-seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries are presented in the Digital Image Collection, including works by Gillray, Rowlandson, Hogarth, Woodward, Cruikshank, Bunbury, and Newton, among others. Prints, drawings, and watercolors related to Horace Walpole's collection and house at Strawberry Hill are also included, among them are several extra-illustrated editions of Walpole’s Description of the Villa, once owned by William Bawtree, Richard Bull, Thomas Kirgate, and Walpole himself as well as other volumes formerly in Walpole’s library such as his A Collection of Prints Engraved by Various Persons of Quality, and albums of drawings by his friends Richard Bentley and John Chute. Other additions include several groups of prints known as the Cries of London (both those by Marcellus Laroon and those by Paul Sandby), portraits by George Vertue, and a selection of trade cards, advertisements, invitations, and bookplates.

Caricatures and Satires, including:

• The Caricature Magazine (Folio 75 W87 808, volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)
• Macaroni prints
• A Collection of Drolleries, 1770-1797 ( Folio 75 C697 770)

and works by such artists as:

• James Gillray
• Thomas Rowlandson
• William Hogarth
• Henry William Bunbury
• George Moutard Woodward
• George Cruikshank
• Isaac Cruikshank
• Richard Newton
• Robert Dighton
• Robert Seymour
• and others

Prints, drawings, and watercolors related to Horace Walpole's collection and house at Strawberry Hill are also represented. Some of those included are:

• Walpole's collection of George Vertue's Portfolio of Original Drawings of Heads, Antiquities, Monuments, Views &c. (49.3581)
• Drawings of artists later engraved for Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting; Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley (49.3664.1 - 49 3664.34)
• Views of the house and grounds (49 3678)
• Various other Strawberry Hill views
• Several extra-illustrated copies of The Description of the Villa digitized in their entirety
• one of Walpole's own heavily-annotated 1774 editions (49 2523, 49 3641, and 49 2619.4)
• his folio-sized 1784 edition (Folio 49 3582)
• Richard Bull's folio-sized 1784 edition (Folio 33 30 copy 11)
• and selections from those owned by William Bawtree (Folio 33 30 copy 4) and Thomas Kirgate (Folio 33 30 copy 6)
• Walpole's Slight sketches of architecture by John Chute, Esq., of the Vine in Hampshire, 1753, (Folio 49 3490)
• Walpole's folio-sized volumes of prints by Henry William Bunbury (Folio 49 3563)
• Drawings and designs by Richard Bentley. (Folio 49 3585)
• Bartoli's Scritti di varie cose antiche (49 2371)

In addition, other volumes and groups of materials to be found in the digital collection include:

• a selection of trade cards, trade tokens, advertisements, invitations, and bookplates, including those in volumes (Quarto 66 726 T675 and Folio 66 733 Al325)
  
• portraits by George Vertue for The Heads of the Most Illustrious Persons of Great Britain (Folio 724 734 H432)
• several groups of prints known as the Cries of London (both those by Marcellus Laroon, calledCryes of the city of London Quarto 75 L328 733, and those by Paul Sandby, called Twelve London Cries, Quarto 75 Sa5 760)
• a small but growing number of historical scenes, including works published by Birch, Boydell, and Bowyer

The Library does not require registration to view the images in the Digital Collection. The images on the digital collection are intended for study use only and are not for publication. It is necessary to obtain authorization to use images from the Digital Collection and to notify the Library when links are made to the site.

To search the Digital Image Collection click here.

For more information about searching the digital image collection, click here.

The Library does not require registration to view the images in the Digital Collection. The Adobe Flash Player plug-in is required to view higher resolution images in the Digital Image Collection. Click here to get Flash Player.

The Library's policy and information on copyright and photoduplication of the images are available at:
http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html.

It is necessary to obtain authorization to use images from the Digital Image Collection and to notify the Library when links are made to the site.

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Digital Image Collection

Searching, Browsing, Navigation, and Display

To Search the LWL Digital Image Collection at http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/, click here.

[The Adobe Flash Player plug-in is required to view higher resolution images in the Digital Collection. Click hereto get Flash Player]

The Search Screen allows you to search for words that appear in the record associated with the image.

The information about each image in the Walpole Digital Image Collection includest:

• Image id (lwlpr number)
• Call number -- call number of individual item, or, where that has not been assigned, of the volume in which the item is to be found
• Creator -- Artist's name, when known. Please note that often this is just a last name, and in some cases is not included at all
• Title -- brief and often incomplete, spelled as it appears on the item
• Notes -- can include

As works are cataloged in Orbis, Yale's Library catalog, this more complete and authoritative information is being imported into the Digital Image collection to replace the temporary minimal metadata, providing more access points and authority-controlled headings for artist, subject, genre term, and so on. Records enhanced by Orbis information typically include:

• Image id -- lwlpr number is the unique identifying number for the image in the digital collection
• Call number -- call number of individual item, based on the date of the image or the call number of the volume in which the item is to be found. Note, as graphic materials are cataloged in Orbis, new call numbers are assigned as needed, often with the addition of zeros to enable consistent numerical sorting by the system.
• Creator (Artist) -- when the item has been cataloged in Orbis, entries in this field are authority-controlled headings that include name, dates, role.
• Title / statement of responsibility
• Publication information -- location, publisher, date
• Description -- extent, media, size
• Notes -- Specific information about the item, e.g. Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
• Reference -- bibliographic reference, usually to the entry in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires
• Summary -- a narrative description of what is depicted.
• Local Subjects -- the locally applied subject terms historically used in the LWL card catalog.
• Subjects -- authorized subject headings
• Form/Genre -- to identify specific physical formats and genres, usually with places and dates added, e.g. Satires (Visual works)- England - 1799 or Etchings - England - London - 1799 or Ballads - England - 1794
• Also Listed Under -- Names of additional creators, e.g. Humphrey, Hannah, fl. 1774-1817, publisher.
• In -- the title and usually the date and call number of the volume in which the item is to be found, e.g. "[Album of trade cards and invitations], between 1733 and 1769" or "A Collection of Drolleries, 1770-1797, Folio 75 C697 770"
• Link to Orbis Record -- includes a hyperlink to the Orbis record

Please note that not every image has all of this information included in the record.

Searching is limited to keyword and call number.

A Keyword query searches all of these fields for exact matches of the word(s) entered.

Click on "ANY" to find images whose records contain any of the words entered. Click on "ALL" to find images whose records contain all of the words entered. It is not possible to truncate words or search for phrases.

Select Sort Results by: "Title" "Creator" or "Call Number" to determine the order in which the results are sorted and displayed.

Click on "Go" to search.

Certain words, including articles, prepositions, and symbols, cause problems in keyword searches and will result in an error message.

While some pages of text are included in the Digital Image Collection, the images have not been OCR (optical character recgonition) processed, so only the limited text entered in the record is searchable.

Diacritics and Punctuation: Diacritics display in the images and records but are ignored in searching, so a search for either"Muntz" or "Müntz" will yield the same results regardless of whether the umlaut is used either in the search term or resulting record retrieved.

A Call number query searches for numbers in the record. As graphic works are cataloged in Orbis, in many cases new call numbers are assigned, sometimes based on new information about the date of the work, and in others to ensure correct numerical filing. This usually can be seen by the addition of zeros within the call number (e.g. the former call number for Female Combatants, 776.1.26.1 has been changed to 776.01.26.01).

With a Call Number query it is possible to find images by date of publication because the first element of a print's call number is the last three digits of the date of publication (e.g., "760" for a publication date of 1760).

It is not possible to combine a keyword and call number search.

The Result Screen for your search will display thumbnail images with call number, title, artist (including dates and role), publication information, and image id number below.

• Click on the "View full record" to see a larger image and accompanying record information.
• Click on the image itself to see a high resolution image on which you can pan and zoom to see greater detail.
• Click on the "Save to group" to flag the image for later use during the search session.
• Click on "Related Item," as applicable, to view all images from a particular volume displayed in order.
  • From that view, click on "View Your Group as a Slide Show" to see the volume images in order.
  • Use the left and right arrows to browse backward and forward in that volume.
  • Click on the box below the image that includes text to highlight and jump to a particular page image.

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Related Links

• Finding Collection Materials
• More detailed help on searching for graphic materials in Orbis
• Orbis search help -- Basic or Advanced
• More help on searching the Digital Image Collection
  
• Links to Other Digital Image Collections Online
• Links to Other Digital Collections Online
• Rights and Reproductions

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