Scene showing the actor and dramatist Samuel Foote in the role of Fondlewife, a character in William Congreve's comedy "The Old Bachelor". Foote wears a long unfastened, deep-cuffed coat over a waistcoat, breeches tied at the knee, and a tassled scarf...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777, and Congreve, William, 1670-1729.
"Portrait of Sarah Siddons, after Gainsborough; three-quarters length sitting directed and looking to left, wearing a striped gown and large feathered hat, set at an angle, her hands on a fur muff in her lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from description of a later state in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1931,0509.124.
A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits a...
Alternative Title:
Coxswain's carousal
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
The famous author Alexander Pope is depicted in three-quarter length. He is seated at a desk in a leather armchair. He turns his glance to his proper left. His right arm supports his wigged head. His elbow rests on a volume with an eligible title on t...
"Portrait of Maurice Margarot; bust-length, directed to left, looking towards the viewer, smiling; wearing wig, open jacket, waistcoat fastened with three buttons, and neckerchief tied in a bow; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Much to the disgrace of the British nation, this martyr of liberty Maurice Margarot ... and Brave man struggling in the storms of fate ...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, 8th May 1794, by D.I. Eaton, Newgate Street, I. Smith, corner of Portsmouth Street, Lincolns Inn Fields, & T. Spence, Little Turn-Stile, Holborn
Portrait of Mrs Yates as Jane Shore; bust in an oval frame. Her right arm is raised, her forehead rests against her raised arm; her eyes are half-closed and her hair loosely dressed up with tresses over the shoulders. She wears a low-necked dress
