Seated portrait of John Wilkes, holding a scroll marked 'Magna Charta', leaning on a table on which is a copy of his letter 'To the Gentlemen Clergy & Freeholders of the County of Middlesex', and 'Bill of Rights'. A framed painting on the wall behind (left) shows an image of Hercules defeating the Hydra
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Title from text below image., Seemingly a reduced copy of print by John Dixon that was published in 1768 by Carington Bowles; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.761. See also: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 1, no. 35, page 217. For another reduced copy with a different title, also published by Carington Bowles, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1489., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint from bottom edge., and Mounted to: 22 x 13 cm.
Depiction of the copy at the Palace of Versailles of the statue known as the Venus de' Medici. Aphrodite, looking right, stands naked in a pudica pose; a dolphin being ridden by a putto sits next to her left leg
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Title etched within pedestal at bottom of image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Thomassin, S. Recueil des figures, groupes, thermes, fontaines, vases, statues, et autres ornemens de Versailles. Amsterdam : P. Mortier, 1695., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "39" in upper right corner., Mounted on page 159 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.
Proof of an engraving which was later used on tickets to multiple concerts including one at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792 (see impression in the British Museaum online catalogue), one at Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797 (see impression in the British Museaum online catalogue) and another at the Concert Room, King's Theatre, Haymarket, May 179[blank] (see impression in the Lewis Walpole Library). The image shows, on the right, St Cecilia seated, playing the organ; on the left, two winged figures standing; in an oval; below, a block of low-relief which depicts Charity and three children; a lion and a unicorn on sides of the relief; after Robert Smirke
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Concert Room, Kings Theatre, Haymarket, May 179, St. Margaret's Church Wesminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792, and Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797
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Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration number C,3.95., and On page numbered 16 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Judith holding a sword by the cutting edge is posed to cut off the head of Holofernes. The print appears opposite the title page of the printed version of William Hogarth's Judith : An Oratorio, or, Sacred drama ... the musick composed by Mr. William de Fesch, late Chapel-Master of the Cathedral Church at Antwerp. London : Printed in the year MDCCXXXIII
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Per vulnera servor moret tuâ vivens
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Title and date from Paulson., Engraved caption title below image: Per vulnera servor moret tuâ vivens. Virg. Aeneid., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms, note in Steevens' hand in pencil above print: Judith. Another note next to print on right: See Mr Nichol's Book 3d edit. p. 419., and On page 55 in volume 1.
Figure of Moses, on a pedestal in a niche; sitting, looking away to right, right hand twined in his long beared with the wrist resting on a book propped beside him. On the pedestal are three lines of text beginning: Moysis ingens ex marmore simulacrum ...
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Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker, place of production, and date range for production from the Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue, museum no.: DYCE.1169., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom right., and Mounted on page 124 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
