Prints and drawings from the Lewis Walpole Collection.

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Prints and drawings from the Lewis Walpole Collection.

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The prints and drawings, mostly English, are of 18th century historical scenes, political cartoons, landscapes, caricatures, various occupations, dinner parties, etc.

37 microfilm reels.

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Wilmarth Sheldon “Lefty” Lewis, was born in Alameda, California in 1895, attended the Thacher School in Ojai, California, and graduated from Yale University, a member of the Class of 1918. Lewis, began collecting books not long after his graduation from Yale. Then, on a trip to London in 1923, he purchased a copy of John Heneage Jesse’s George Selwyn and His Contemporaries that was full of manuscript notes by Lady Louisa Stuart. Her lively commentary about the people and events described in t...