"Men preparing to bathe in a canal, the feet of a diver visible; bridge at right and a row of houses behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from quotation below the image., Publisher, date and place from book for which this plate was engraved., Signed in lower right corner below title: Dunciad. Book II., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of instructions to the binder., Frontispiece from: The works of Alexander Pope, vol. v. London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton, 1751., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Commentary on The Dunciad in an unknown contemporary hand on verso; parts of text lacking.
In an elegant sitting room, an older man bows before a beatiful young woman who holds a squirrel in her hand as a handsome young man looks on the scene from the door. A painting of Spring hangs on the wall behind her; a painting of Winter hangs on the wall above the old man's head
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Male dress: furred overcoat -- Domestic service: footman -- Furnishings: pet house -- Picture hanging hooks -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Carpet -- Furniture: loveseat with embroidered upholstery., and Mounted; restrike on acidic paper.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Muffs, Servants, Pets, Squirrels, and Floor coverings
Double portrait of King Richard III and his Queen, full-length, in robes and crowned
Alternative Title:
King Richard the Third and Queen Anne
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Walpole, H. Historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard the Third. London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1768., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Engraved after a drawing formerly hung in the Breakfast Room at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 52 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:
J. Dodsley
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485,, Anne, Queen, consort of Richard III, King of England, 1456-1485,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Kirke's villainy and cruelty to a young woman who beg'd him to save her brothers life
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher and date of publication from that of the volume., Plate from: A new and universal history of England: from the earliest authentic accounts, to the end of the year 1770 ... / by William Henry Mountague, Esq. .... London: Printed for J. Cooke, [ca. 1771]., and Text above image: Engraved for Mountague's History of England.
"The marriage of Henry VI, the king in an embroidered robe with a halo about his head standing to the left holding the hand of his bride, Margaret of Anjou dressed in a long gown and cloak, a tiara on her head, a bishop officiating at the ceremony binding the couple's hands, male nobles and attendants standing behind the king and female maids standing behind the princess, Westminster Abbey beyond with statues of kings and saints, an arch supported by two columns to the foreground acting as a border."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marriage of Henry VI and Marriage of Henry the Sixth
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Engraved after the painting hung by Horace Walpole over the chimney in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 76 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 : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 15.4 x 13.3 cm, and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Henry VI, King of England, 1421-1471,, Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"The marriage of Henry VI, the king in an embroidered robe with a halo about his head standing to the left holding the hand of his bride, Margaret of Anjou dressed in a long gown and cloak, a tiara on her head, a bishop officiating at the ceremony binding the couple's hands, male nobles and attendants standing behind the king and female maids standing behind the princess, Westminster Abbey beyond with statues of kings and saints, an arch supported by two columns to the foreground acting as a border."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marriage of Henry VI and Marriage of Henry the Sixth
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Engraved after the painting hung by Horace Walpole over the chimney in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 101 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 and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 14.2 x 11.5 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Henry VI, King of England, 1421-1471,, Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"The marriage of Henry VII, the crowned king in his ermine-lined robes of state over a heraldric tabard holding his sceptre and accompanied by the bishop to the right and Elizabeth of York in an embroidered floral gown accompanied by a bearded priest in long robes to the left, the ornamented arches of the cathedral above them and the interior view stretching away into the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marriage of Henry VII and Marriage of Henry the Seventh
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Engraved after the painting hung by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 137 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 and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 14.3 x 17.2 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509,, Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Henry VII, King of England, 1465-1503,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character from Colman and Garrick's 'The Clandestine Marriage'; full-length, standing three-quarters to left with head in profile, right hand gathering apron, left by her side with forefinger pointing downward, wearing richly trimmed panniered dress and wide-brimmed hat with trailing ribbon, hair worn high."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.184., Plate from: Dramatic characters, or Different portraits of the English stage. London : R. Sayer and J. Smith, 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "14" in lower right corner., Mounted on page 235 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., Mounted beside a clipping (9.1 x 6.5 cm) from a newspaper or magazine describing the marble monument at Twickenham Church on which verses eulogizing Mrs. Clive were written., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779., Colman, George, 1732-1794., and Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character from Colman and Garrick's 'The Clandestine Marriage'; full-length, standing three-quarters to left with head in profile, right hand gathering apron, left by her side with forefinger pointing downward, wearing richly trimmed panniered dress and wide-brimmed hat with trailing ribbon, hair worn high."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.184., Plate from: Dramatic characters, or Different portraits of the English stage. London : R. Sayer and J. Smith, 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "14" in lower right corner., Mounted on page 235 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., Mounted beside a clipping (9.1 x 6.5 cm) from a newspaper or magazine describing the marble monument at Twickenham Church on which verses eulogizing Mrs. Clive were written., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779., Colman, George, 1732-1794., and Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776