"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].
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
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., 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; 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 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., 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 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., 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.