Advertisement for a girls' school in south London. An engraved vignette at the head of the sheet displays girls listening to a reading, while a vignette at the foot depicts a white and a black child embracing, presumably an indication of the proprietors' abolitionist sympathies
Description:
Title from item., Approximate date based on style of dress., Handbill with engraved text and engraved vignettes., Sheet trimmed, leaving thread margins., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Hotels, Schools, Girls, Education, School children, Race relations, and Reading
"Portrait of James Edward Oglethorpe, full-length, in profile to the left, seated on a stool with his legs crossed at the sale of Dr. Johnson's books, with a walking stick in his hand, reading a book, with a tricorne over his long curling wig, dressed in an elegant frockcoat and breeches, a sword at his waist."--British Museum online catalogue and Full-length portrait of James Oglethorpe, English general and philanthropist, seated, in left profile
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "Publishd. Septr. 9, 1785, by I. Cary, No. 188, Strand", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1887,0406.58., Date of publication inferred from 1823 watermark., Picture caption, printed under image: Died 30th June 1785 Aged 102 said to be the oldest General in Europe - Sketch'd from life at the sale of Dr. Johnsons books Feby. 18, 1785 where the Genl. was reading a book he had purchas'd without spectacles - In 1706 he had an Ensigns commission in the Guards & remember'd to have shot snipes in Conduit mead where Conduit Street now stands., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 368., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 21.5 x 16.5, on sheet 27 x 20.8 cm., Window mounted to 39 x 28 cm., and Bound in as page 42 in volume 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world. London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Oglethorpe, James, 1696-1785,
Subject (Topic):
Stools, Staffs (Sticks), Books, Reading, and Daggers & swords
"The Duke of Clarence drags his three children (left to right) in a go-cart. His waistcoat is open, a handkerchief under his hat drapes his head, perspiration pours from his forehead. The boy, an infant replica of his father, holds a pair of reins which are attached to the duke's pocket, and flourishes a whip. Beside him are a little girl hugging a dog, which hides her face except for the eyes, and a crying infant whose features, though infantine, are those of her father. The crest on the cart is a chamber-pot (cf. BMSat 7835, &c.) surmounted by a crown. From the duke's pockets project a toy battleship, a coral and bells, a toy windmill, and a doll. Mrs. Jordan, in a dress of masculine cut, walks beside the cart, intent on the part which she is studying from an open book ('The Spoil'd Child', see BMSat 7835): 'Act IIId enter Little Pickle'. A signpost (right) points (left) 'From Richmond', (right) 'To Bushy'. A sandy bank with trees forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Children -- Toys -- Pets: King Charles spaniel -- Literature: Bickerstaff's Farce of the Spoil'd Child., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 36.4 cm, on sheet 28.7 x 40.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 45 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 23d, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. James's Street's
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, and Munster, George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, Earl of, 1794-1842
"A young woman (negligent of her other duties) reading in an armchair, by a grand fireplace with a bas-relief decoration of a reclining nude; head in profile to right, wearing a mob cap and voluminous skirts; a poker is stuck in the grate of the blazing fire."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Négligée
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0512.620., "Simplex Mundities"--Lower left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Published March 6th, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"A young woman (negligent of her other duties) reading in an armchair, by a grand fireplace with a bas-relief decoration of a reclining nude; head in profile to right, wearing a mob cap and voluminous skirts; a poker is stuck in the grate of the blazing fire."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Négligée
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0512.620., "Simplex Mundities"--Lower left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching ; sheet 35.1 x 24.3 cm., Printed on laid paper with watermark; hand-colored., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides.
Publisher:
Published March 6th, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
An aspirational dustman in ragged clothes, a monocle hanging from his hat, and smoking a cigar, sits in a chair before the hearth reading a book, "An introduction to the pleasures of ... schince by Barnart Botherum [...] dedicated to the majesty of the people". On the table are bowl, a goblet and a bottle of Port. On the wall hangs a landscape and on the mantel a bust of Shakespeare. The dog at his feet stares at the fire, the bones of fish dinner on a plate beside him. A large bell sits on the floor beside the dustman
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate 1"--Upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Published April 1828 by S. Maunder, 10 Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Garbage collecting, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Interiors, Fireplaces, Smoking, and Reading
"A woman sitting in a chair at left reading from a book to a girl with a dog and boy standing and another girl sitting at right, all with sullen expressions; after Bunbury, second state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3002., Four lines of verse below title: By angels caught, all-hallow'd as they flow, are tears we shed for sorrows not our own; and bosoms heaving for anothers woe, waft their own incense to the heavenly throne. EW [monogram]., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: ?Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687., and Mounted on page 101 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 29, 1782, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
"A woman sitting in a chair at left reading from a book to a girl with a dog and boy standing and another girl sitting at right, all with sullen expressions; after Bunbury, second state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3002., Four lines of verse below title: By angels caught, all-hallow'd as they flow, are tears we shed for sorrows not our own; and bosoms heaving for anothers woe, waft their own incense to the heavenly throne. EW [monogram]., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: ?Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687., Mounted on page 101 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : stipple engraving in sepia ink on laid paper ; sheet 28.6 x 19.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 29, 1782, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
"Two boys shown half-length, the nearest on the left glancing at the viewer and holding a copy of the 'The North Briton / no. 45', his hat under his arm, while the other young man reads over his shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., "This is derived from a composition in the same direction by Abraham Bloemaert of two singing boys, engraved by Cornelis Bloemaert (Hollstein 292; Roethlisberger 397)."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint from lower edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 2010,7081.2206.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Portrait of Samuel Johnson, half length, to the right, reading a book, holding it close to his face; after Northcote."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later state., Artist from statement of responsiblity on later state., Proof with scratched engraver's name only. For a later state with title "Samuel Johnson L.L.D." and statements of responsibility "J. Northcote R.A. pin." and "J.J. De Claussin sculp." added, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,61.51., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 110 (leaf numbered '162' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., With contemporary pencil annotations; printmaker's name "Claussins" written beneath lower right corner of image, and "Proof 32 A.W. 1813" written on verso., and Later annotations in ink, written below print on mounting page, identify the sitter as "Samuel Johnson" and give the production details "Published by Baldwyn, Catherine Street".
