Trade card for the Italian-born printmaker James Anthony Minasi (1776-1865), who was born in Calabria and became a Bartolozzi pupil after coming to England. Illustrated with an angelic winged putto concentratiing on a print book
Alternative Title:
Drawing taught by J. Minasi, in the style of F. Bartolozzi ...
"Portrait; bust, facing three-quarter to left, eyes to the viewer; head completed; clothes outlined; background blank."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Harding, S. Shakespeare illustrated, by an assemblage of portraits & views ... London : S. & E. Harding, 1793., The word "general" in title is followed by a superscript "X" which is repeated one line below with the explanation: The Earl of Essex in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, chorus to the 5th act of Henry 5th. Pope., Mounted on page 62 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : stipple engraving on wove paper ; sheet 18.6 x 13.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1, 1791, by E. Harding, No. 132 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
"Portrait; bust, facing three-quarter to left, eyes to the viewer; head completed; clothes outlined; background blank."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Harding, S. Shakespeare illustrated, by an assemblage of portraits & views ... London : S. & E. Harding, 1793., The word "general" in title is followed by a superscript "X" which is repeated one line below with the explanation: The Earl of Essex in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, chorus to the 5th act of Henry 5th. Pope., Mounted on page 132 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., 1 print : stipple engraving on wove paper ; sheet 19.1 x 14.1 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1, 1791, by E. Harding, No. 132 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
"Portrait; bust, facing three-quarter to left, eyes to the viewer; head completed; clothes outlined; background blank."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Harding, S. Shakespeare illustrated, by an assemblage of portraits & views ... London : S. & E. Harding, 1793., and The word "general" in title is followed by a superscript "X" which is repeated one line below with the explanation: The Earl of Essex in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, chorus to the 5th act of Henry 5th. Pope.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1, 1791, by E. Harding, No. 132 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
"Portrait of Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby; bust, looking to the right; with short beard, wearing cap; after Holbein."--British Museum online catalogue and "This is one of 75 etchings from John Chamberlaine's series of imitations of drawings 'Original Designs of the Most Celebrated Masters in his Majesty's Collection' (quarto edition, London, 1812; folio edition in 1793). The plates are executed in etching, aquatint (proof impressions before aquatint exist) and stipple, and made between 1790s and 1812 by Bartolozzi, Tomkins, Shepster, Pastorini, G.F. Lewis, G. Lewis and others. ... Most plates of this series are lettered 'In his Majesty's collection'."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Edward Stanley Earl of Derby
Description:
Title etched above image., "In his Majesty's collection"--Below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1948,0315.11.3., Mounted on page 122 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Novr. 1, 1793, by I. Chamberlaine
"Marriage of Cupid and Psyche: veiled Cupid and Psyche, holding a bird and mourning while walking towards right; on the left, Hymen carrying a basket of fruits; on the right, two Cupids leading the way; in an oval medallion; copy after Bartolozzi's print after Cipriani's study from a cameo by Tryphon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and On page numbered 44 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Muse seated on clouds, in her right arm holding a putto who wears a tragedy mask, with her left hand lifting a comic mask which another putto holds; beside her, a lyre and a banner; after Edward Francis Burney; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.238., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf numbered 12 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others., 1 print : engraving on laid paper; sheet 12.0 x 15.0 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Muse seated on clouds, in her right arm holding a putto who wears a tragedy mask, with her left hand lifting a comic mask which another putto holds; beside her, a lyre and a banner; after Edward Francis Burney; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.238., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf numbered 13 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others.
"Muse seated on clouds, in her right arm holding a putto who wears a tragedy mask, with her left hand lifting a comic mask which another putto holds; beside her, a lyre and a banner; after Edward Francis Burney; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.238., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On page numbered 1 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of design., and 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; oval 11.2 x 9.0 cm.
