"The design simulates a pyramidal monument in bas relief against a stone wall, supported on short Corinthian pilasters between which is an inscription. On the face of the pyramid Lady Cecilia Johnston, is seated in profile to the right on a round clos...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 19th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817 and Johnston, James Lesslie, 1697 or 1698-1789.
Subject (Topic):
Defecation, Monuments & memorials, Putti, and Skull & crossbones
"The Recording Angel sits full face in the upper part of the design, writing at a long scroll, which rests on a small but very solid rectangular table supported on billowing clouds. He is a sulky-faced naked child, with wide-spread wings and wearing a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 8th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"The Recording Angel sits full face in the upper part of the design, writing at a long scroll, which rests on a small but very solid rectangular table supported on billowing clouds. He is a sulky-faced naked child, with wide-spread wings and wearing a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 8th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Probably based on G. Cruikshank's 'Boney's Meditations . . .', British Museum Satires No. 12593 (1815), an adaptation of Gillray's 'Gloria Mundi', British Museum Satires No. 6012. The place of Napoleon is taken by George IV (right) who stands on the ...
Alternative Title:
Address to the Sun
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Oct. 20, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Quentin, Georgina
On the left Bacchus stands wearing a pelt across his torso; his crown is made of grape leaves which also adorn his staff. In his left hand he holds out a crown towards Ariadne who reclines under a tree partially draped with a cloth, her eyes turned to...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
J. Smith
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity), and Ariadne (Greek mythological character),
"An imitation of British Museum Satires No. 9012. The profiles of George IV (left) and Queen Caroline (right), replacing those of George III and Pitt, and joined together by the merging of the former's wig and the latter's hair, rest on a dish support...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S. Vowles
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
Subject (Topic):
Heads (Anatomy), Tableware, Crowns, Putti, and Ribbons
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1840?]
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 16 Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Heading to a title page for a poem or musical composition. A winged devil looms above and behind a group of sixteen half-length figures wearing hooded cloaks, his arms outstretched and lifting up the cloaks of the figures in the back. All sixteen hold...
"Portrait of Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a tall hat and ruff; in an ornamental oval with curtain beyond; below a putto holding a sceptre; books and scrolls in lower left; lettered state."--Br...
Alternative Title:
Sir Francis Bacon Viscount St. Albans Lord Chancellor
Description:
Title from text in image.
Publisher:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Name):
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626,
Subject (Topic):
Philosophers, Statesmen, British, Putti, and Scepters
