"Bird's eye view over Vauxhall Gardens, with figures surrounding bandstand and the Prince of Wales's pavillion in centre, triumphal arches at right and supper boxes at either side of the gardens, the conical roof of the 'Elegant music room' at extreme left"--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
General prospect of Vauxhall Gardens and Vüe d'etaillee des Jardins de Vaux Hall
Description:
Title from text below image., Later state, with publication line burnished from plate. For an earlier state published in 1751 by John Bowles, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.5465., Date of publication based on that of earlier state. See British Museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "128" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),, England, and London.
Groups of fashionably dressed ladies, gentlemen, and children stroll in the shade of large trees in front of a pavillion with a large central bay decorated with Oriental archictectural elements and flanked on each side by a crescent of smaller bays furnished with tables
Alternative Title:
Vüe du Temple de Comus dans le Jardins de Vauxhall
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered '69' in upper right corner., "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament.", and Originally published by Robert Sayer in 1751.
Publisher:
Published 12th May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image., Printmaker from signature on lettered state: J.S. Müller sc., Variant state, probably a proof before letters, of a plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Publication information from book in which the lettered state of this plate was published., Frontispiece to: Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Mounted on page 84 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.
"Interior view of St Paul's Cathedral; elegantly dressed figures in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Vüe interieure de la Cathedrale de St. Paul a Londres
Description:
Title from caption below image., Terminal date of publication based on printseller's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., Later reissue, with publication date removed, or a print published in 1753. See British Museum online catalogue., "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image., and Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
"Portrait of Colley Cibber aged 67, after Van Loo, bust-length, turned to the right, with long curly wig, in oval frame with cartouche and laurel wreath at the bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched in bottom portion of image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Possibly the frontispiece to: Cibber, C. An apology for the life of Colley Cibber ... London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley ..., [1756]. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 7 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.
"Portrait, half length, to the right, looking at viewer; wearing embroidered doublet, cloak over left shoulder, and ruff, with moustache and short curled hair, one hand on hip; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
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]., "Vol. 1, p. 152"--Upper right corner., Engraved after a self-portrait miniature by Oliver that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 136 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 wove paper ; sheet 17.3 x 13.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right., Plate from: The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin ... , v. 38 (1769), p. 455., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Corsican chief.
Title from text engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Sixteen lines of verse in two columns below title: Whilst Nick and Val take wondrous pains, yo strip a youth of his demesns ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Lawyers' offices -- Personifications: figure of Justice -- Lighting: candlestick -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Legal documents: indenture -- Mythology: Plutus (riches).
Publisher:
Sold at the printshops of London & Westminster, price 6[d]
"Satire on the clergy; a farmer and his wife offering their tythe to a clergyman by the tithe barn at the gate of his rectory; the man holds a sucking pig, the woman holds out an infant, saying that if the clergyman wants the former he must also take the latter; the clergyman turns away looking back over his shoulder in distaste."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tithe pig and Dime
Description:
Title engraved below image., Caption at top of image: La dime., Two columns of verse below title: In country village lives a vicar, fond--as all are!--of tythes and liquor ..., 'Price 6d.', and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Titles from text above or below each image., Printmaker identified as J.S. Müller in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from that of the periodical for which the print was issued., Plate from: London Magazine. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, v. 38 (1769), page 591., and Images of three portrait medallions on one plate, each individually titled.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770,, Townsend, James, -1787,, and Sawbridge, John, 1732?-1795,
