Cecchi, Giovanni Battista, 1748 or 1749-approximately 1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1770 and 1790?]
Call Number:
770.00.00.191
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Self-portrait of the artist, perhaps in his studio, sitting in front of a desk. A miniature hangs on a small easel beside him; sculpted heads and hands, as well as a painting, hang on the walls behind him. Another sculpted head lies on the floor in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Giuseppe Macpherson Pitt
Description:
Title engraved on a separate sheet mounted below image., Printmaker Giovanni Battista Cecchi and intermediate draftsman Carlo Bozzolini identified in the Hamburger Kunsthalle online catalogue., This print was apparently part of the "Serie di ritratti de' pittori che se stessi di dipinsero esistenti nella R. Galleria di Toscana," which has been dated 1770-1790. See Hamburger Kunsthalle online catalogue., Engraved border is also printed on a separate sheet and mounted around the sheets with the image and title; for another impression with the exact same arrangement of sheets, see: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. Nr. 57533. For an impression lacking these additional sheets, see: National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D10968., and Sheets trimmed within plate marks.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Macpherson, Giuseppe or Joseph or James, 1720-1792,
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Artists' studios, Sculpture, and Miniatures (Paintings)
"Portrait of Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, with long curly hair, bust to right, looking towards the viewer, wearing broad lace collar and sash over doublet; in an oval, within rectangular frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Description:
Title etched below image., After a picture by Theodore Russel that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper, à la poupée and some hand-coloring ; sheet 11.3 x 9.6 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement., With wash-line mount of laid paper with "J. Whatman" watermark. Also on verso another wash-line mount with missing drawing or print., and Titled in ink in a contemporary hand on mount below image: Henry Carey Earl of Monmouth : from an original at Strawberry Hill.
Publisher:
Publish'd 22 Sepr. 1798 by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall, & P. Brown, Crown St., Soho
Subject (Name):
Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, with long curly hair, bust to right, looking towards the viewer, wearing broad lace collar and sash over doublet; in an oval, within rectangular frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Description:
Title etched below image., After a picture by Theodore Russel that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 62 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., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; sheet 13.6 x 10.4 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement.
Publisher:
Publish'd 22 Sepr. 1798 by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall, & P. Brown, Crown St., Soho
Subject (Name):
Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Two women stand before a knife grinder and his cart equipped with a grinding wheel, on the sidewalk before an open door and under a street lamp. The woman closest to the viewer hands him a pair of scissors while the other looks on. In the background on the right, a woman carrying a baby on her back walks away from the scene
Alternative Title:
Knives, scissors and razors to grind and Couteaux, ciseaux, rasoirs a repasser
Description:
Titles in English and French below image, engraved on either side of series title. and Engraved after Francis Wheatley, who first exhibited his series of oil paintings depicting London street-sellers at the Royal Academy between 1792 and 1795.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs Jan. 1, 1795, by Colnaghi & Co., No. 132 Pall Mall
Subject (Topic):
Grinding wheels, Infants, Mothers, Scissors, and Street vendors
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, bust-length in profile to right, wearing wig, open coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; in round frame in form of a miniature, with ribbon through ring at the top, and tablet below; after Falconet; state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched in open letters on tablet below image., Pariset worked for Ryland and later Falconet on a series of portraits of members of the Royal Academy. See the advertisement in the 'Mercure de France' of October 1783 (page 142)., Price following imprint: Pr. 2s., Formerly laid inside front cover 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.
Publisher:
Sold by P. Falconet, Broad Street, Carnaby Market, & Ryland, Bryer, & Co., Cornhill
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, bust-length in profile to right, wearing wig, open coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; in round frame in form of a miniature, with ribbon through ring at the top, and tablet below; after Falconet; state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched in open letters on tablet below image., Pariset worked for Ryland and later Falconet on a series of portraits of members of the Royal Academy. See the advertisement in the 'Mercure de France' of October 1783 (page 142)., Price following imprint: Pr. 2s., Mounted opposite first half-title page in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3., 1 print : stipple engraving on laid paper ; sheet 21.1 x 14.1 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Sold by P. Falconet, Broad Street, Carnaby Market, & Ryland, Bryer, & Co., Cornhill
"View in an oval frame, showing different parts of the school and hospital on Newgate Street, London; an arcade at the back lines one side of the courtyard, pupils and school masters in yard; below a paragraph on the history of the building, from a separate plate; illustration to Smith's 'Antiquities of London'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the library founded in 1429 by Richard Whittington
Description:
Title etched within lower border of oval image., Heading to six lines of engraved text on a separate plate (7.5 x 17.5 cm), printed beneath plate with image: A view of the library founded in 1429 by Richard Whittington., Citation at bottom of text on separate plate: See Pennants London 3d edition., Plate from: Smith, J.T. Antiquities of London and its environs. London : Pubd. by J. Sewell [etc.], 1791[-1800]., and Bound in opposite page 205 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Pennant, T. Some account of London.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1793, by N. Smith, Gt. Mays Buildings, St. Martins Lane
"Three women and a man stand drinking gin in an interior in St Giles's, London; the woman on the left grabs a bottle from a shelf, to her right a woman holds up a gin cup; the man stands behind the three women leaning against a clock and a fireplace."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Refreshment at Saint Giles's
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1948,0315.6.36., Companion print to: Refreshment at St. James's., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on laid paper backing and matted to 31 x 39.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1st, 1789, by G.T. Stubbs, No. 2 Compton Street, Soho
Subject (Geographic):
St. Giles in the Fields (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Bottles, Gin, Longcase clocks, and Fireplaces
"A family in a wealthy interior; an elderly man at centre, seated at a table, a glass in his left hand, holding out his right to receive coins from a younger man standing to left with his right hand on a book and a quill in his mouth; on the table, another glass, writing materials, coins and notes; to right, a woman ..., supporting, and holding up a bunch of grapes for, a young child standing on a chair; looking on from behind the chair, a boy and, at right, a black servant holding a bowl of fruit, his left hand on the chair; in front of the table, a young girl lying on the carpet with a spaniel; a shipping wharf seen through an open window to left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Fruits of early industry & oeconomy, Fruits of early industry and oeconomy, and Fruits of early industry and economy
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: Lo here, what ease, what elegance you see, the just reward of youthfull industry ..., and Companion print to: The effects of youthful extravagance & idleness.
"A family in a wealthy interior; an elderly man at centre, seated at a table, a glass in his left hand, holding out his right to receive coins from a younger man standing to left with his right hand on a book and a quill in his mouth; on the table, another glass, writing materials, coins and notes; to right, a woman ..., supporting, and holding up a bunch of grapes for, a young child standing on a chair; looking on from behind the chair, a boy and, at right, a black servant holding a bowl of fruit, his left hand on the chair; in front of the table, a young girl lying on the carpet with a spaniel; a shipping wharf seen through an open window to left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Fruits of early industry & oeconomy, Fruits of early industry and oeconomy, and Fruits of early industry and economy
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: Lo here, what ease, what elegance you see, the just reward of youthfull industry ..., Companion print to: The effects of youthful extravagance & idleness., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching ; sheet 67.3 x 54 cm., and Printed on wove paper, trimmed within plate mark.
