A satire on Pietro Aretino's (1492-1556) Aretino, the author many licentious poems
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the address in the imprint., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: Giving a loose to all the joys of love, / The wanton pair new postures seek to prove ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: music room -- Reference to postures -- Reference to Damon, fl. 387 BC -- Music sheets -- Harpsichord -- Violin -- Female dress: slippers, ca. 1748 -- Gilt pier table -- Furnishings: gilt mirror -- Gilt wall bracket and shelf -- Furniture: couch with paw feet -- Dishes: china bowl -- Sex: copulation., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
1748, according to Act of Parliam't, Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 3, 1748.
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 31+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
View of the great fireworks on account of [the] general peace
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: This elegant piece of architecture is 410 long & 105 feet high, is embellish'd with statues of Justice, Prudence, Fortitude ..., and Sheet numbered "130" in ink in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Tho. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
"Double portrait of Frances Brandon and Adrian Stokes; she on the left, holding a glove in her right hand on a cushion, touching her necklace with the other, he on the right, holding his gloves to his chest in his left hand; with a cartouche on the base of the plinth forming the lower part of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state and "One of nine plates Vertue engraved of 'Historical Portraitures' (see Alexander nos. 854-857, 921-924 and 954), from copies he made after paintings relating to the Tudor family, issued in three parts: the first four were published in 1743 and advertised in his 1751 catalogue at £1.11s.6d; the second four were published in 1748 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £1.1s; the last print was published in 1750 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £7.7s. They were all republished as a set by the Society of Antiquaries in 1776, together with Vertue's notes on the pictures which he presented to the Society and plate numbers."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Frances Duchess of Suffolk and her husband Adrian Stokes Esqr
Description:
Title engraved within cartouche below image., Published by George Vertue; see Alexander, page 223., Three lines of text below image, on either side of cartouche containing title: This Noble Lady was eldest daughter of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary the French Queen his Dutchess; she was married to Henry Grey Marquess of Dorset and Duke of Suffolk &c. the mother of Lady Jane Grey who was proclaimed Queen., "From an original in the cabinet of the Honble. Horace Walpole Junr. Esqr."--Lower left corner of plate., "Most humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient servant G. Vertue"--Lower right corner of plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate republished in 1776 with added plate number by the Society of Antiquaries of London. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Y,5.142., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 219., Mounted on page 126 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:
George Vertue
Subject (Name):
Suffolk, Frances Brandon Grey, Duchess of, 1517-1559,, Stokes, Adrian, 1519-1585,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from text in image., Date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity.
An engraved portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby after the painting by Anthony Van Dyck, a bust of Digby in a lace collar, looking left, in an oval frame with ornaments below
Alternative Title:
Sir Kenelm Digby
Description:
Title engraved in image., Text below image: From an original picture in [the] Royal Palace of Kensington., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate to: Birch, T. Heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : Printed for John and Paul Knapton, MDCCLII [1752]., Mounted on page 47 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., 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; sheet 37.2 x 23.6 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Portrait of Elizabeth I, as Princess (incorrectly identified as 'Lady Jane Grey'); half-length, to front, wearing a cap, small ruff, a double collar of pearls with two long strands, and an ermine-trimmed mantle, in an oval frame, forming part of a composition designed as a sepulchral monument, with an obelisk, a celestial crown and two inscribed labels suspended from garlands, a chair of state, to right, a mourning female supporting a shield of Lady Jane Grey's arms, and to left and right, fluted pilasters and urns topped by burning hearts.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,9.135., Text in lower left corner of image: This from an original in the possession of his Grace., Dedication below image: Inscrib'd to his most noble Grace, Algernon Seymour, Duke of Somerset by his Grace's most humble and most obedient servant Geo. Vertue 1748., and Numbered in upper right corner "Pl. V."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554, and Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603,
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1748]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 73+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"South front of the old church, with the two figures in the clock tower, later removed to Regent's Park"--British museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Southeast prospect of the church of St. Dunstan in the West
Description:
Title from text above image., Date of publication based on printseller's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Later state of a print originally published 18 March 1739. See British Museum online catalogue., Dedication below image, lower left: To Joseph Taylor Esquire, patron of this church, this plate is humbly inscribed by the proprietors Robert West and Willm. Henry Toms., Text below image, lower right: This church was dedicated to St. Dunstan, Archbp. of Cant., who died A.D. 990 ..., and Plate numbered "58" in upper right corner.
"The three children of Christian II of Denmark, painted after their mother's death in 1526, wrongly titled the children of Henry VII; three children sitting close to one another around a table within a frame, Prince Hans (who would die as a boy six years after sitting for this painting) at centre wearing flat hat and mourning clothes, three cherries in front of him, Dorothea at left reaching for a quince, and Christina at right holding a quince."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Three children of King Henry VII and Elizabeth his queen
Description:
Title etched below image., Engraved after the 1526 painting by Gossaert in the Royal Collection, London. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0914.62., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and Tipped in at page 97 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian II, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 1481-1559. and Christine, Duchess, consort of Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, 1521-1590
Emblematic funeral ticket for Isaac Watts, Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician who died 25 November 1748. In the center is a mausoleum decorated with pillars and scrolls with three small Cherub heads along the top and the lid decorated with two full-figure Cherubs holding torches on either side of an urn at the top of the structure. The center has been left blank to allow for the letterpress printing (used as the title). On the left, standing on a low block, is the allegorical figure of Time, shown as an old, bearded man with wings, scythe, and hourglass. On the right Death stands on a coffin, shown as a skeleton with an arrow in his left and his right hand resting on one of the small heads decorating the base of the mausoleum. Along the base of the mausoleum hangs a cloth with an image of a funeral procession in a graveyard. On the hills in the background are churches and on the right, a ruins overgrown with vines. In the sky centered above the mausoleum is the symbol of the Holy Ghost and above it the Sun and on either edge two Cherub heads
Description:
Title from letterpress text in a compartment left blank in an elaborately engraved pictorial sheet. and Plate mark: 23 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Cherubs, Churches, Coffins, Death, Funeral processions, Sun, Skeletons, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
