McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764 or 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 4 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1778); three-quarter length standing to front, her left arm across her waist, her right hand holding up her loose dress, her hair falling over her right shoulder; curtain behind at left and landscape beyond at right; lettered state after address and price erased."--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.: 1902,1011.3405., 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.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764?]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Louis Jules Barbon Mancini Mazarini, Duke of Nivernois; seen bust-length to right, eyes to front, wearing sash, lace collar, and his hair powdered and tied with ribbon; after Ramsay."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: A. Ramsay pinxt. ; J. McArdell fecit., Proof state before letters added; for later states with lettering, see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, no. 140, pages 885-886., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1872,1012.4085., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Mounted on page 244 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798,
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1764]
Call Number:
Portraits T753G no. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of George Townshend standing three-quarter length slightly to left and leaning his right elbow on pedestal beside curtain, eyes to front, wearing uniform, his own hair curled, holding paper in his right hand labelled 'A Bill Intituled, An Act for the Better Order of the Militia Forces."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Honourable Colonel Townshend
Description:
Title engraved below image., Artist and printmaker from earlier states of the plate described in Smith, Russell, and the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Later state, with imprint of John Bowles & Son burnished from plate (the remnants of which are faintly visible beneath title)., Date of publication based on date assigned to the earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., For the earlier state with the imprint "Printed for Jno. Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3402. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 298. This earlier state is described as no. 176a (state 2) in: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states, v. 2, page 221. An unspecified earlier state of this plate is also briefly mentioned in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, no. 176, page 899., and Watermark.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764]
Call Number:
Portraits T753G no. 4+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of George Townshend standing three-quarter length slightly to left and leaning his right elbow on pedestal beside curtain, eyes to front, wearing uniform, his own hair curled, holding paper in his right hand labelled 'A Bill Intituled An Act for the Better Order of the Militia Forces &c'; lettered state after tree-trunk in arms altered to coronet, inscription to Governor in Ireland and publisher to Sayer."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable George Lord Viscount Townshend
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3401., Townshend coat of arms engraved in lower margin., and Mounted on board to 51 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1760?]
Call Number:
760.00.00.107+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of the imprint statement., and Questionable publication date based on entry in Goodwin.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
publ'd. accordg. to act of Parliamt. 1765.
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, three-quarter length, of the Countess of Egmont, seated three-quarter to right wearing ermine-trimmed robes, looking towards the viewer, holding her eldest son on a table in front of her, left arm behind his back, right hand on his feet, as he sits facing her, looking towards the viewer, holding her crown in front of him, against her chest."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
The Right Honourable Catharine Compton
Description:
Title from text below image, in three lines on either side of crest., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 6 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.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
Jany. 10, 1777.
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1565); standing three-quarter length to right, eyes to front, wearing fur-trimmed overcoat, and his hair powdered, sword in his left hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 216 (leaf numbered '37' 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:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1794]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Full length portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram who began his career in shipping and trading, both in America and England, gaining a wide knowledge of colonial affairs. Later became projector of the Foundling Hospital, shown bust-length to left within oval frame, eyes to front, his shoulder-length hair loose, wearing plain, open coat and white necktie; after Hogarth
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state with imprint: Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 107 in volume 2.
