"Alboin and Rosmunda; the queen on the right, refusing to drink wine from a cup made from her father's skull, which the king holds on the left; three female courtiers, two soldiers, two child servants watching them; gothic windows in background; after Cipriani."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Alboin et Rosmunda
Description:
Title from image., Added title from Calabi and de Vesme: Alboin et Rosmunda., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 52 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
A black rebel holds a musket in his right hand as he turns to his left looking up apprehensively. Around his waist is a bandolier with a pouch and a hatchet. At his feet is the skull of a human head. Behind him on the right in the distance are two blacks running in the brush, also armed with rifles
Alternative Title:
Rebel negro armed and on his guard
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint from other illustrations in this publication., The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist., and Plate published for: Stedman, J.G. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America. London : J. Johnson & T. Payne, 1806-1813.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st 1794 by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Enslaved persons, Indians of South America, Rebels, and Rifles
Volume 2, page 41. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman wearing a plumed hat, carrying a feather fan, walking in a garden, past an urn set on a plinth, with two other women standing behind her to right, one fastening a corsage, wearing a striped scarf over her hair; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One line of text below title: Je l'aimais dès ce premier moment, & ce moment à decidè de toute me vie. "Le Comte de Commenge.", and Mounted on page 41 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 26th, 1785, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de, 1682-1749.
"Portrait, three-quarters length seated directed to left, looking towards the viewer, left elbow on the arm of his chair, his hand on the edge of his robes, right hand on the chancerial burse, propped on his knee, with the mace on a table beside him, wearing robes decorated with gold brocade, lace bands and long white wig; a column and curtain behind to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., State from: Baudi di Vesme, A. Francesco Bartolozzi., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., For an earlier state with scratched production details only, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.1768., and Bound in opposite page 371 (leaf numbered '187' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published 1st Feby. 1800 by John Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805,
Title from annotation below image., Date from Calabi and de Vesme., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Possibly part of Seasons, described in Francesco Bartolozzi : catalogue des estampes / d'après les manuscrits de A. de Vesme, par A. Calabi. Milan : Guido Modiano, 1928, no. 1794-1804., and On page numbered 47 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Orpheus and Eurydice walking in the underworld; on the right, three dogs; on the left, a putto holding a torch and a banner; in an oval frame with palm leaves; copy after bill-head by Bartolozzi who etched after Cipriani in 1767."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, museum registration number 1897,1231.265., For earlier impression without title, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: no. 7 in Folio 75 B28 799., Sheet trimmed to design., and On page numbered 8 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"A sailor on shore, holding a bottle, with a well-dressed young prostitute on each arm, the one on his [left] arm carries a cauliflower while the other holds up her dress; a boat moored against the quay in the [left] foreground, ships at sea and a fortification in the [left] background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Description:
Title from text below image., Date inferred from that of another print after the same painting, published by C. Knight in 1794, showing the identical scene in reverse. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1881,0409.25., and Companion print to: Scarcity in India.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, Social life and customs, Courtesans, British, and Piers & wharves
"Cul-de-lampe of a naked winged child seated on the ground, his left hand on his left cheek, with an expression of sorrow, his left elbow resting on a log lettered: "Captain Cook"; on the left, a ship on the sea; after Francisco Vieira; illustration to page 146 in the fourth canto in 'The Gardens' by Abbé Delille (translated by Mrs Montolieu, London: 1805; second edition); published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Calabi and de Vesme., Sheet trimmed to image, resulting in loss of lettering., and On page numbered 43 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
