Catharine II Empress of Russia and Catherine II Empress of Russia
Description:
Title from item., Date and place of publication and title from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: S,7.96., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint.
Publisher:
Pubd., as the Act directs, Febry. 10. 1785 by G. Bartolozzi No. 5 John Street, Oxford Road
Volume 2, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 5. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman seated in profile to right, holding a handkerchief on her laps with both hands; a little girl standing next to her, almost in profile to left, putting both hands on the woman's lap and looking up towards her; to right, an older girl seated, holding a book open on her lap with both hands, looking up to the sky; to left, a boy seated, in profile to left, blowing a trumpet; in a roundel; after H Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., State with dedication added above imprint statement. For an earlier state lacking this text, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.953., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of text below title: The shade of my mother hovers round me, when in a still evening I sit in the midst of her children, I wish that she could look down upon us, and see that I fulfil the promise I made her to be a mother to them. Sorrows of Werter, Dedication etched above imprint statement: To the Honble. Miss Grenville, this print after an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. is with the greatest respect dedicated by her most obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson., Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther., Mounted on page 5 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; circular image 30.0 cm, on sheet 40.1 x 36.0 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Volume 2, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 5. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman seated in profile to right, holding a handkerchief on her laps with both hands; a little girl standing next to her, almost in profile to left, putting both hands on the woman's lap and looking up towards her; to right, an older girl seated, holding a book open on her lap with both hands, looking up to the sky; to left, a boy seated, in profile to left, blowing a trumpet; in a roundel; after H Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., State with dedication added above imprint statement. For an earlier state lacking this text, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.953., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of text below title: The shade of my mother hovers round me, when in a still evening I sit in the midst of her children, I wish that she could look down upon us, and see that I fulfil the promise I made her to be a mother to them. Sorrows of Werter, Dedication etched above imprint statement: To the Honble. Miss Grenville, this print after an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. is with the greatest respect dedicated by her most obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson., Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther., and Mounted on page 14 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Title from caption below image., Place and date of publication taken from printmakers's known place of activity and life span., and Annotation in graphite on verso: "Gibbs, Oct. 22, 1841."
"Title-page of Painting seated on ground on the left, holding a palette and brushes in her left and a burin in her right; on the right, three putti: one holding a board which reads: "Cipriani's rudiments of drawing engraved by Bartolozzi"; after Cipriani;. illustration to 'Rudiments of drawing' (London: 1793)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image. and On page numbered 56 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Publisher:
Pub'd as the act directs, Feby. 28th. 1786, by G. Bartolozzi. No. 5 John Street, Oxford Street
Title from item., Artist and printmaker's names appear above title., Companion print by same publisher on same date: Tragedy., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 30, 1788 by T. Macklin. No. 39 Fleet Street
Ticket to a concert at Concert Room, King's Theatre, Haymarket, May 179[blank], with the day and year annotated in manuscript. On the right, St Cecilia seated, playing the organ; on the left, two winged figures standing; in an oval; below, a block of low-relief which depicts Charity and three children; a lion and a unicorn on sides of the relief; after Robert Smirke; title for 1792 concert printed in a separate printmark at top."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from engraved text above image; image and text on separate plates., For proof before letters, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: on page numbered 16 in Folio 75 B28 804., The plate with the image was used multiple times for concerts including ones held at at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792 and one at Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797. See impressions in the British Museum online catalogue., "Arnold" annotated below image in brown ink., and Mounted on page numbered 17 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Dido, supported on a pyre by a woman wearing a veil and diadem, fainting with grief, a dagger at her side, an old woman standing behind to left and weeping women gathered on the right; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Three lines of text below title: Omnis et una delapsus calor, atq: in ventos vita recessit. Virg. IV, 705. The struggling soul was loos'd & life dissolv'd in air. Dryden., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 43 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, Jany. 1st, 1780, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"St. Mary Magdalene, lying on her stomach in a landscape left to right, her upper body naked, propping up her head with her right hand, reading a book supported with her left arm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., State from Calabi and de Vesme catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Tipped in at page 151 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Pullish'd [sic] June 1, 1790, by T. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
