"Double portrait of the artist's first wife Mary and their son, Rupert, seated to left, the child on her lap with his hands at her neck, eyes to front."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 29 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., In image foreground is a bowl inscribed: Peter Wild Boy., Peter the Wild Boy was born circa 1713, and died 22 February 1785. He was thought to suffer from Pitts-Hopkins syndrome., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Feral children, Human curiosities, Nuts, Coats, and Bowls (Tableware).
A post-chaise and four with armorial bearings, no signs of the driver, is being overturned on a busy High Street, after running over large barrels which lie beside a pavior's mallet, stones, and wheelbarrow as the two passengers scream in horror. The road is filled with other carriages, horsemen, and a stage-coach, and the sidewalks crowded with pedestrians, street-entertainers, and vendors. Groups of onlookers lean from the bow windows of the inn on the opposite side. Some of the characters depicted amongst the crowd of revellers on the stage coach are: a grenadier beating a drum; a man blowing a trumpet; and a Jew clutching his box. The busy sidewalks are crowded with the pedestrians including: two men and a lady; a gypsy with a basket and scales; a fiddler; and a singer. The scene includes many signs and placards as well
Description:
Title, printmaker, artist, and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title, attribution, and imprint., and Mounted to 52 x 70 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 26th 1783 by V. Green, No. 29 Newman Street, Oxford Street & sold by F. Brydon, printseller, No. 7 opposite Northumberland House, Charing Cross, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and Kent
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Peddlers, Street entertainers, and Traffic accidents
"Portrait, half-length, three-quarter to left, looking towards the viewer, left hand on his hip, wearing a plumed cap, small ruff, a cloak hung on his right shoulder, and a medal on a ribbon over his doublet, in an oval frame with crests at the top on each side."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Engraved on the same plate as a mezzotint portrait entitled "Dorothy, Wife of Sir John Pakington ..."; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.2333., Plate published in: Nash, T. Collections for the history of Worcestershire ... London : John Nichols ..., 1781-1782., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of second portrait engraved on the same plate and with loss of imprint statement from below this portrait. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1902,1011.2333., Mounted on page 209 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.
Title from caption below image., Text in lower left corner of plate: Size of the picture, 4 f. 3 i. by 7 f. 3 i. in height., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., and Plate III 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.
Publisher:
Published Mar. 25th, 1775, by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Title from caption below image., Text in lower left corner of plate: Size of the picture, 4 f. 9 1/2 i. by 6 f. 4 3/4 i. in height., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XXIV 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 55 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1st, 1775, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"Despair, an old man, sits in ragged clothing on the ground with instruments of suicide at his left hand, the corpse of Sir Terwin beside him and a skeleton on the rocks behind; to the left the Red Cross Knight holds a dagger to his own neck as Una rushes to stop him, a donkey beside her; after West (Staley 220)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image. and For an earlier state with scratched lettering, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1838,0425.63. See also: Whitman, A. British mezzotinters: Valentine Green, 190.
Publisher:
Published June 1st, 1775, by John Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, London
"The young mendicant, a little girl, half-length in a mock oval frame, wearing a cloak and a bonnet tied under her chin, three-quarter to left, looking solemnly towards the viewer; after Boydell."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published March 1st 1776, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Title from lettered state in the British Museum., Artist, printmaker, and publication information from description of a later state in the British Museum online catalogue, registration number: 1981,U.380., Plate XXI 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. 2., and On same sheet: [Portraits of hounds].
"Portrait of Agneta Yorke standing three-quarter length to front, her left hand resting on vase and her right on her hip, looking to left; curtain, pillar and scrollwork frame behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.2153., "Lady Yorke" written in pencil below print by previous owner., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 48 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
