Two men at a shop counter in a tea and coffee retail shop using scales to measure out coffee beans and "Two elderly men, whose family resemblance is pronounced, sit directed to the left, behind a counter running diagonally across the design. They are manipulating small scales; one (left) has his hand in a canister of 'Coffee'. Close behind them is the wall, showing the arrangement of a grocer's shop: deep drawers interspersed with shelves on which are sugar-loaves and canisters of tea. The latter are inscribed respectively: 'Hyson', 'Bloom', 'Hyson', '[Souc]hong', 'Congo', 'Bohea'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Polite grocers of the Strand
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist attribution to Andrew Bell and printmaker attribution to Edmund Scott suggested in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.7364, Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right side., "While [Dorothy] George identifies the brothers as John and Richard Twining, [Sir Ambrose] Heal identifies them as John and Aaron Trim, grocers and tea-dealers in the Strand. This is backed up by another plate in the Heal collection that names Aaron and John Trim under their portrait (see Heal,Portraits.194)."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,Portraits.193., and Probably a plate from: Kirby's wonderful and eccentric musuem; or, Magazine of remarkable characters.
Publisher:
Published May 21, 1805, by R.S. Kirby, 11 London House Yard, St. Pauls
Subject (Geographic):
Strand, The (London, England), England, London, and The Strand.
Subject (Name):
Twining, Richard, 1749-1824., Twining, John, 1760-1827., Trim, Aaron, active 1793-1807., and Trim, John, active 1793-1807.
A whole-length standing portrait of Dr. Bragge who is pictured as a very fat and round-shouldered man who leans both hands on a walking-stick and wears a loose overcoat and pince-nez. Illustration to a letter describing Dr. Robert Bragge, a collector who "... generally goes by the name of the Connoisseur".
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London, 1768-[1776], v. 8, p. 69.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bragge, Robert, Dr. 1700-1777
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Collectors, Eyeglasses, and Staffs (Sticks)
"A realistic view of the House receding in perspective to the Throne, above which is inset an oval bust portrait of Bartolomo Bergami, wearing a cluster of five decorations, see British Museum Satires no. 13810. Eighteen figures and objects are numbered referring to the key in the lower margin. Counsel are in a line across the foreground on each side of the centre figures, who are Gurney the short-hand writer and Majocchi facing the interpreter. The Queen is inconspicuously seated behind Brougham, next a smaller lady who must be the tall Lady Anne Hamilton. Eldon is at the Table in front of the Woolsack. On the Table is 13 Green Bag [see British Museum Satires no. 13735]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image. and Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron,, Gurney, William Brodie, 1777-1855., Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868., Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846., Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Subject (Topic):
Scandals, Trials (Adultery), Government officials, Judicial proceedings, Queens, and British
Half length portrait of Henry Angelo as a fencer, directed towards the right, facing and looking towards the left, with long hair and a double-breasted fencing jacket (formerly misidentified as a Guernsay jacket). He holds a foil in his right hand
Description:
Title from caption below image., After a portrait by Mather Brown in the National Portrait Gallery, London, oil on canvas, NPG 5310?, Questionable date of publication from ms. annotation preceding imprint: Oct. 1st, 1791., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge., and Mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by B.F. Scott, No. 18 Broad Court, Long Acre
Key plate to the print of the Death of the Earl of Chatham, in the Upper Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, 1778, with 55 members identified
Description:
Title engraved at top of image., John Singleton Copley's oil painting on which the engraving was based, was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780 and is now held at the Tate Gallery, London., and Mounted on linen, bordered in silk; rolled with silk ties.
Publisher:
Published by John Singleton Copley, R.A., Decr. 26, 1791, and sold at Parr's Print Warehouse, No. 52 Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Copley, John Singleton, 1737-1815., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords,
A copy of William Hogarth's portrait of Lord Lovat with oval portraits in the four corners of: Lord Balmerino aged 58, Lord Cormartie pardon'd, Charles Ratclif aged 53, and Lord Kilmarnook aged 42.
Description:
Title etched at top of image on a banner with the heads of Townley and Fletcher on pikes on either side., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2801., and On page 123 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747 and Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord, 1688-1746,
"Bust portrait of a good-looking lady, directed to the left. In the gauze projection which covers her bust are four small dogs. Her hair is not extravagantly dressed, and is decorated with three ostrich feathers, which suggest that she may be intended for Mrs. Fitzherbert."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fashionable bosom
Description:
Title etched below image., The 'f' in 'fo' and the 'N' in 'No.' in imprint statement are etched backwards., and Mounted on leaf 32 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. the 2d fo [sic] Aprl. 1786 by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre, London
A jovial countryman leans on a rustic railing next to a tree, to address a fat elderly parson on horseback (riding to the left). He asks, "Ha! Ha, the knaust Doctor I be a rum fellow, Canst thee tell me why a parsons horse be like a king?" The parson answers with a grin, "Why you rogue, because it is guided by a minister." He is red-faced and freckled and prosperous looking, with a round belly; he carries a sermon in his pocket whose title is "Sermon to be prea[ched] ..."
Alternative Title:
Dignity of a parsons horse
Description:
Plate numbered '136' in upper right corner., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Cf. No. 10904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of later state with altered imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Edmeads & Co.
BEIN 2016 Folio 86: Imperfect: some plates wanting. Numerous plates with second copies. Plates and text loose in binding with spine title "Bowyer's History of England plates.", Lettered on spine Illustrative of Hume's History of England., Engraved dedications signed: Robert Bowyer; Tomkins scr., Plates dated 1793-1806., Also known as his Historic Gallery., and Bound by Hammond in half red morocco with marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, six raised bands, gilt edges.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietor, R. Bowyer, 80, Pall Mall; by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Coins, English, illu, Nobility, Poets, English, and Kings and rulers
