"Paris sitting on the left, handing an apple to venus, who stands in the centre, lifting her shawl with her left hand, Cupid peeping out from under her skirts at her feet, Juno sitting behind her, glowering and Minerva standing with her shield, wearing a helmet, looking and pointing to left, in a landscape with two trees behind the figures; in an oval; after Kauffman; published state 1788"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Sheet trimmed into oval design within plate mark., and On page numbered 36 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Dedication sheet to George III; five allegorical female figures, three standing to left, one casting incense on a fire, before a plaque with a bust portrait of the king, while a triton sits in front of it, another female holding a scroll raises a crown above the king's head and another female sits writing history to right; after Tresham."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from similar print at British Museum, Cf. museum registration no. 1858,1009.251., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Lettered below image: "To the King's most Excellent Majesty. / The attention and encouragement bestowed by your Majesty on all the efforts of the Fine Arts induced me to hope for and solicit your Majesty's patronage to this edition of a Complete History of England, illustrated by historic prints, and gratefully acknowledge the condescending goodness with which my humble request has been granted. The sanction of your majesty is a pledge of general approbation and dissipates those apprehensions, which intimidate and weaken the first measures of great and hazardous undertakings. / I have the honour to be, may it please your Majesty, Your Majesty's most obliged and devoted servant, Robert Bowyer.", and On page numbered 55 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs, by R. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
A collection of English engraved advertisements, trade cards, invitations to society functions, and bookplates probably compiled around 1758 by F. [ or T.?] Legge of St. James's Market and mounted in an album, with five later items laid-in. In some cases the collector has recorded on the versos the circumstances in which he acquired a card. The trade cards include a wide range of London businesses: apothecaries and druggists; booksellers; bookbinders and related trades of leather gilder and case makers; brush makers; boot and shoes makers; cabinet and chair makers; cards and paper goods providers; chimney sweeps; clock and watch makers; coach maker; confectioners; sellers of combs and cutlery; coopers; dentists; distillers; drapers; dyers; engravers; fan makers; figure makers; furriers; glassmakers; goldsmiths; grocers; gun makers; hairdressers; hatters and hosiers; ironmongers; jewelers and brokers; mercers; milliners; makers of musical instruments; oil men; paper makers and paper hangers; pewterers; picture framers; plumbers; printsellers; saddlers; makers of scales; stationers; tea merchants; tin-workers; snuffman and tobacconists; tool makers; toy makers and sellers; trunk makers; turners; undertakers; upholsterers; sundries. In addition to intact copies of cards, the album includes details of decorative elements trimmed from other copies or other cards and advertisements as well as decorative and armorial bookplates
Description:
Title from spine. and Full leather calf binding with a Cambridge panel design, exterior and inner-most panels "sprinkle" style, gold tooled, gilt edges, and red leather spine label "Trade tokens and bookplates"; tri-color handsewn endbands in red, blue and yellow. Six raised bands with ornate gold tooled ornaments on the spine.
"Ticket for a Vauxhall Regatta; after Stothard; one of six prints pasted to the same sheet; a young woman in classical dress sitting facing right and looking back over her shoulder and up to left, holding a mask in one hand and a garlanded crook in the other, with an amphora and box below her chair; oval format."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Annotated in upper left corner with "2925"., and On page numbered 21 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"A medal of Rome: a woman seated on the ground in profile to right, holding a broken arrow in her left hand, the Colosseum in background, in a roundel; after Edwards; illustration to 'Roman History' by Goldsmith; state after plate cut in two."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Date from Calabi and de Vesme., and On page numbered 40 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Design of a medallion; recto on top, portrait head facing and looking to three-quarter to right, lettered with name on rim; reverse at bottom, emblem with a bird, vine leaves, wheat, lettered at bottom; book-illustration to 'Decamerone' (Boccaccio: London, 1766); after G B Cipriani."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Date from Calabi and de Vesme., and On page numbered 54 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Illustration that appears on "Title-page to 'An Elegy on the Death of Samuel Foote, Esq.' by Boschereccio (London: George Kearsley, 1778) In a landscape; portrait head in profile to left, in an oval medallion, on ground at foot of a tree; to left, Thalia, Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry, seated on rocks, looking at the medallion and weeping; to left, shadow of Foote being led to a boat by Mercury; in foreground, a head buried in ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Sheet trimmed, resulting in loss of lettering., For full impression of title page, Cf. British Museum registration no. 1897,1231.189., and On page numbered 25 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Illustration that appears on "Title-page to 'An Elegy on the Death of Samuel Foote, Esq.' by Boschereccio (London: George Kearsley, 1778) In a landscape; portrait head in profile to left, in an oval medallion, on ground at foot of a tree; to left, Thalia, Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry, seated on rocks, looking at the medallion and weeping; to left, shadow of Foote being led to a boat by Mercury; in foreground, a head buried in ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For full impression of title page, Cf. British Museum registration no. 1897,1231.189., and On page numbered 25 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
