"View of the cathedral with the statue of Queen Anne in the churchyard in foreground to left; elegantly dressed figures in yard and on street to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
"The interior of a sale-room lit by a candelabra hanging from the ceiling. The buyers and connoisseurs sit on the outer side of a line of trestle-tables arranged in the arc of a circle. Others stand behind them. In the centre sits the auctioneer Hutch...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Auctions, Candelabras, Auctioneers, Pictures, Sculpture, and Chimneypieces
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 January 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 137. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on Cambridge. The interior of a large room showing two sash windows, through one of which (left) is seen part of the south side of the Senate House, through the other, the tower of St. Mary's Church, both drawn with topographical accuracy. B...
Description:
Title etched below image; the letters "n" in "Athens", "inheritress", and "University" are etched backwards.
Depiction of a statue of three men grappling with a snake, the arm of the central figure inscribed "Bloody Brutal" and the pedestal inscribed "LAOCOON." The snake's body extends off the pedestal to the left, with the front of it forming a male human f...
Alternative Title:
Laocoon
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and A. Ducôte's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Topic):
Sculpture, Snakes, Artists' brushes, Pails, Signs (Notices), Donkeys, and Bowing
"One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty": a ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border around the main image are 41 compartments...
"Two grotesque and foolish connoisseurs standing admiring a collection of Egyptian statuary, both looking at a mummy case at left, one simpering, pointing and looking through pince-nez, the other squinting through a short spyglass; the antiquities inc...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 14th, 1805, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"The Duke of York sits on a settee with a courtesan on each knee, Mrs. Clarke (left) and (presumably) Mrs. Carey (right). One foot rests on large volumes of 'Army Accompts'; by the other is a smaller book: 'Ovid Art of Love'. A chair is overturned; th...
Alternative Title:
Beggars opera : Act 2, Scene 1
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
