View of Brighton, the town with numerous houses and other buildings, St. Nicholas's Church on the hill above the town to the right, the coast stretching away in the distance, windmills in the fields to the left with haywains drawn by oxen and reapers at their work amongst the crops to the right, elegant ladies and gentlemen strolling through the scene with a man sketching to the left, several boats and ships on the calm sea beyond, gulls amongst the clouds above. The Royal Arms below
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Titled 'A Perspective View of Brighthelmstone, and of the Sea coast as far as the Isle of Wight: by Jas. Lambert, engraved by Canot.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, & sold by Jas. Lambert, painter, at Lewes in Sussex, and Robert Sayer, map and printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Brighton (England), England., England, and Brighton.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Cityscapes, Churches, Coastlines, Meadows, Windmills, and Church buildings
publishd. according to act of Parliament, Feby. 25, 1761.
Call Number:
761.02.25.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Old Westminster Bridge; a stone bridge with round arches in the middle ground, houses lining the river bank on the right and several ships, including one in the foreground with sails and a man plying an oar, laden with barrels, a man in a small boat on the right waving at a woman who stands in a doorway in the embankment."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and Westminster Bridge (London, England),
"A dog facing a cat that stands over a dead bird with a dead deer on the bench beside them, after Jervas. Plate 38 of Vol.1 of the 'Houghton Gallery'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 1 1/2 i. by 4 f. 1 1/2 i. in length., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XXXVIII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1., and Mounted to 30 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Published March 2d, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"Two dogs facing a cat that has stolen a dead bird off the table, after Jervas. Plate 37 of the 'Houghton Gallery'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 1 1/2 i. by 4 f. 1 1/4 i. in length., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XXXVII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1., and Mounted to 30 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Published March 2d, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
publish'd according to act of Parliament, 8th January 1745-6.
Call Number:
746.01.08.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption above image., Six stanzas of verse in three columns below image: To Edinburgh Charley came, and set the Scottish nymphs on flame ..., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedroom -- Furniture: curtained bed -- Stools -- Furnishings: carpets -- Portraits -- Lighting: hanging lamp -- Scots -- Orders: star and ribbon of the Order of the Garter -- Allusion to papacy -- Reference to the Duke of Cumberland -- Hats: plumed hats., and Mounted to 25 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788
"Moro fortress under bombardment from three warships; return fire landing wide."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Perspective view of His Majesty's Ship Dragon commanded by him, Cambridge Wm. Godfrey ...
Description:
Title engraved below image., Engraved after a painting by Serres made after an on-the-spot drawing by Philip Orsbridge, whose name is wrongly given here as "P.O.R. Sbridge"., "Plate 8"--Lower right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on all but bottom edge., and Plate also issued with eleven other plates and four pages of text as part of: Britannia's triumph in the year 1762 : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, etc., etc. ... London : J. Bowles, 1766.
"Landscape with cattle drinking from a river at centre, in the right foreground two figures seen half-length, trees on either side; mountains in the right background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
In the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole Esqr
Description:
Title devised by curator., Measurements of the original painting etched in lower margin: 3 feet 2 inch wide, 2 feet 4 inch high., Original painting was later kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 206 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 : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 30.2 x 39.5 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Landscape with cattle drinking from a river at centre, in the right foreground two figures seen half-length, trees on either side; mountains in the right background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
In the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole Esqr
Description:
Title devised by curator., Measurements of the original painting etched in lower margin: 3 feet 2 inch wide, 2 feet 4 inch high., Original painting was later kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 180 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
