Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '221' in lower left corner., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: The youthful buck so stout and sturdy, is tickled by the hurdy gurdy ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: tavern -- Male dress, 1770 -- Savoyards -- Musical instruments: hurdy-gurdy -- Architectural details: tavern bar.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Double portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1376); the father seated three-quarter length to right, facing the front, with both hands resting on plans laid on a table covered with carpet, which his son, standing beside him, is looking at; shelf behind at left, curtain and pillar at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, and imprint from published state: "Reynolds pinxt.", "Watson fecit", "Sold by Ryland & Bryer at the Kings Arms in Cornhill." See British Museum registration no.: 1833,0716.45., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on sheet 50.0 x 39.2 cm.
Publisher:
Ryland & Bryer
Subject (Name):
Paine, James, 1717?-1789, and Paine, James, 1745-1829,
"Portrait seated whole-length to right on couch beside pillar, upper body turned to left holding open portfolio on table at left beside papers and vase, head turned to face right; wearing loose, flowing robe and turban."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from text on later states., First (proof?) state of the plate, before sitter's name and publication line added below image. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Publication information based on first published state (second state overall) bearing the imprint statement "Publish'd according to act of Parliament March 15th, 1775, by James Watson, No. 64 Little Queen Ann Street & B. Clowes, engraver, Gutter Lane, Cheapside, London." See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., For second published state (third state overall) with altered imprint statement, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0712.644., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Tipped in at page 68 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.
