Half-length, oval portrait in square of Captain John Goodridge of a Falmouth packet, and author of book on tactics, and an essay 'The Phoenix." Vignette below portrait depicts ships at sea in distance
Alternative Title:
Captain John Goodridge, aged 71
Description:
Title from item., Engraving after a portrait painted in 1780 at Flushing by Opie., Plate engraved as frontispiece for: Goodridge, J. Phoenix, an essay. London : Wells and Grosvenor, 1781., and Sheet trimmed.
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably a later state, with imprint burnished from plate, of a print published 1 May 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson. See: Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 652832., Mounted on page 87 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., 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; sheet 17.3 x 13 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably a later state, with imprint burnished from plate, of a print published 1 May 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson. See: Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 652832., and Mounted on page 30.
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page 277 (leaf numbered '95' 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 as the act directs May 1st, 1798, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London
"Portrait of John Chute, half length, directed to the right, looking at the viewer, wearing his hair with powdered wig tied at the nape, wearing coat, high collar and cravat with frill, holding an eye glass on his left hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., From a miniature at Vyne, attributed to Pompeo Batoni? See National Trust ref no. 27592., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was published., Plate from: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London : Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint statement., and Mounted on page 103 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.
"Almost half-length portrait, turned slightly to left but looking to front and smiling slightly, arms folded across chest, in dark coat with pale button or badge on left side, white collar and neckcloth, short wig; oval frame; after a pastel by Russell of the actor in the character of Colonel Feignwell, from Susannah Centlivre's 'A Bold Stroke for a Wife'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published April 10, 1802, by Jas. Heath, No. 15, Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, and John P. Thompson, Gt. Newport Street
Within an ornate frame containing a head at top surrounded by rays and a scrolled cartouche with the book title at the bottom. The scene illustrates Sterne's uncharitable treatment of the Don, he stands on the left in a comfortable interior, talking to a friar who stands humbly at the door
Description:
Title from item. and Plate from Sterne's Sentimental Journey, published in 'Novelist's Magazine' (London, 23 vols., 1780-1788, Harrison & Co)
"Portrait of the actor Stephen Kemble; half length, to the right, holding closed book; after Smith."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,61.160., and Numbered "105" in manuscript above plate mark in upper right.
Title from caption below image., Text below title: The same size as the picture., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate LX 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: Our Saviour in the garden.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1st, 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside
Title, printmaker, artist, and date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits. Place of publication surmised from printmaker's place of activity. and Annotation in ms. in right lower corner: April 12, 1797.
Entering from the right, Walter Shandy, having had trouble pulling on his pants, arrives too late to prevent the curate from baptizing his newborn son with the hated name of Tristram
Description:
Title from original print on which this reversed copy is based. See Paulson., "Vol. II, page 221"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 234., and On page 186 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs Jany. 14th 1780 by W. Strahan, T. Cadell, J. Dodsley, G. Robinson, & J. Murray, &c. &c.
Copy of the frontispiece to Laurence Sterne's 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', 2nd ed. (R and J Dodsley: London, 1760), vol. 1 (illustrating an episode in vol. 2); Corporal Trim stands at right, reading a sermon on Conscience, seen from behind and illustrating the passage in which his posture is described with 'his knee bent, but that not violently - but so as to fall within the limits of the line of beauty'; at left Dr Slop, asleep in a chair by the fire; behind, Walter Shandy and Uncle Toby sitting and smoking, Toby's map of the fortifications at Namur above on the wall; state with grandfather clock in the corner and tricorne hat on the floor
Description:
Title from original print on which this reversed copy is based. See Paulson., "Vol. I, page 214"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 233., and On page 186 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Jany. 14th 1780 by W. Strahan, T. Cadell, J. Dodsley, G. Robinson, & J. Murray, &c. &c.
"Portrait of William Wilberforce, MP, half-length seated at a table on which stand the 'Parliamentary Register' and 'Debates', holding folded in his hand the 'Slave Trade Abolition Bill'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: Painted by the late John Russell Esqr. R.A., crayon painter to the King, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York ; engraved by James Heath A.R.A., Proof before all letters. For a lettered state with the imprint "Published Novr. 26, 1807, by William Faden, Geographer to the King &c., Charing Cross, John Hatchard, Bookseller to the Queen, 190 Piccadilly, and William Russell, 17 Newman Street," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1899,0805.4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 512 (leaf numbered '107' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Later ink annotation below print, on mounting sheet: William Wilberforce (Slave Abolitionist).
