"A young lady, three-quarter length, seated facing front, turned a little to left, head tilted over right shoulder, holding the end of a garland of flowers up in right hand, the other end resting under left hand in her lap, a crook across her lap and a lamb at her feet to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0410.345., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "As harmless as a turtle of the woods, fair as the summer beauty of the fields, as opining flowers untainted yet in the winds, the pride of nature and the joy of sense."--Written in two columns and two lines on either side of the title., "Miss Pickering" written in pencil below print by previous owner., Mounted on leaf numbered 42 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1535); three-quarter length seated in profile to right, looking towards front, his right hand turning the pages of a book resting on the table to right
Description:
Title from caption below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., Publisher from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and In paper frame: 182 x 268 mm. Ownership stamp on back: "CIFB" within the shape of an artist's palette.
"Portrait, half-length in an oval frame directed to right, holding a volume in left hand against his chest labelled 'Witsii Oeconomia', looking towards the viewer, wearing plain suit, bands, and bell-bottomed wig; after Russell."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1902,1011.2709., and Price following imprint: Price 2s.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Portrait; three-quarters length seated to right, looking ahead meditatively, her head on her hand and her elbow on her knee, wearing a gown decorated with flowers and a belt with ornate circular clasps, her hair dressed up with braids and a veil; after Liotard."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable Maria Countess of Coventry
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, 2010,7081.3744.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Coventry, Maria Gunning Coventry, Countess of, 1733-1760,
"Portrait after William Hoare, seated to left at table, three-quarter length, eyes to front, holding letter in his right hand; wearing plain coat with large, buttoned-down cuffs and tightly curled wig."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title engraved below image., State with alteration to publisher Richard Houston's address in imprint statement; text "at [the] Golden Head in Broad Court Covent Garden" at end of imprint has been erased and "Charing Cross" added in its place. This state seems to come between Russell's state 'b' (state I in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits) and state 'c'. See: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date range for publication inferred from the 1754 date assigned to the preceding state of the plate (British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1859,0709.1451), as well as from other plates published by Richard Houston that are dated up to 1760., "Price 5 s."--Preceding imprint., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 254 (leaf numbered '70' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
"Portrait, three-quarter length standing directed to left, right hand on hip, looking away to right, left hand resting on a ledge beside him, holding a large paper, wearing a velvet suit with a narrow trim, own dark hair trimmed at the nape, lit from left through a casement window, with books piled on the sill; after Wilson; lettered state before retouching to add sash and star."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Title continues: ... Baron of Malton and of Wath and Harowden, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of the County of York and Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding of the said county and Vice Admiral of all the maritime parts thereof and F.R.S., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication inferred from that of another print published by Richard Houston from the same "near Drummond's, Charing Cross" address. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1840,0808.46., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 263 (leaf numbered '78' 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:
Sold by R. Houston near Drummond's, Charing Cross
Subject (Name):
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of, 1730-1782,
A young woman and a monk sit under two trees while a monk sews or embroiders a piece of fabric with floral motifs. They are being observed by a man hiding behind the trees. In the background on the left is a church
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Two lines of verse on either side of title: Alass! [sic] how vain religion's awful [sic] name. The drone monastic blots it o'er with shame ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Half-length portrait of a man with mustache and beard wearing in an artist's cap, looking left, with a pipe in his hand and smoke rising from his mouth
Alternative Title:
Smoker
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date inferred from the date of partnership formed by Henry Carington Bowles and Carver after Carington Bowles's death in 1792 . See Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers, p. 31., Plate numbered '161' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
A young woman dressed in a lace mantle, pours water into a vase in which she is fixing flowers. Behind her is a fountain
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Publication date inferred from the date of partnership formed by Henry Carington Bowles and Carver after Carington Bowles's death in 1792., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"Group portrait in a study around a table; William Beckford seated to left holding a scroll ..., with John Sawbridge sitting opposite him, leaning with his elbows on a book with head on right hand, and James Townsend standing between them, looking down to right, left elbow resting on the back of Sawbridge's chair, the last two wearing fur-trimmed cloak and chains of office."--British Museum online catalogue, description of lettered state
Description:
Title, printmaker, and artist from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Proof before letters; lettering below image on published state begins: Willm. Beckford Esqr. Member of Parliament for the City of London ..., Publication information based on that of lettered state. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.2582., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Below image are pencil annotations, perhaps in a contemporary hand, that identify the three figures in the portrait and identify Houston as the printmaker.
Publisher:
John Smith and Robert Sayer
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770,, Townsend, James, -1787,, and Sawbridge, John, 1732?-1795,
