Four images of women's heads showing two fashionable hair styles and hats. The two on top show the same arrangement with different caps; the two on the bottom represent the same arrangement in right half-profile and right half-profile, front and back views
Alternative Title:
Patterns for the newest and most elegant head dresses
Description:
Title from item., Description based on imperfect impression; statement of responsibility at the top of plate partially erased from this impression., and Plate from: The Lady's magazine. London, 1770-, v. [2] (1771).
publish'd according to act of Parliament, April 20, 1771.
Call Number:
771.04.20.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Oval bust portrait of Richard Oliver, with an engraved broadside below, both enclosed in ornamental scrolls
Description:
Title from item., Inscribed below portrait: Chosen alderman of Billingsgate Ward 5 July 1770. Elected member of Parliament for the City of London 11 July 1770. Sent prisoner to the Tower 26 March 1771., The text of the broadside contains an address, To the worthy liverymen on the City of London, followed by an address To the committee appointed by the Common Concil of London to provide a table for Mr. Alderman Oliver at the city expence [sic] during his imprisonment in the Tower., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark., After imprint: P[rice 1s]., Temporary local subject terms: Aldermen -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Reference to Bill of Rights -- Reference to Habeas Corpus -- Reference to alderman's oath -- Arms -- Richard Oliver, 1735-1784, alderman., Watermark: countermark I V., and Lower right corner torn off resulting in partial loss of design, statement of responsibilty, and price.
In a dense forest, two men with hounds rest by a tree; one, standing, holds a rabbit; the other lounges beside the tree under which is their kill of game birds
Description:
Titled etched below image., With two stanzas of verse, four lines each, on either side of title: Sated with sport as one recumbent lies, Success the other strews before his eyes ... Each night, whilst, they rehearse the oft told tale., One of a set of four prints showing a day of hunting, with verses below the image beneath each image describing the progression., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street, London, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Game bird hunting, Hunters, British, Hunting, and Hunting dogs
Head dress for the year 1771, Headdress for the year 1771, and Francoise à Londres
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Described in later state as being after original drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm., Earlier state, issued by different publisher. Cf. No. 4784 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Mountainous headdresses -- Female fashion, 1771 -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Furniture: chairs -- Table -- Parrot stand -- Pets -- Reference to Lecture on heads by George Alexander Stevens., and Window mounted to 36 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for S. Hooper, No. 25 Ludgate Hill, & publish'd as the act directs
Head dress for the year 1771, Headdress for the year 1771, and Francoise à Londres
Description:
Title from item. and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Mountainous headdresses -- Female fashion, 1771 -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Furniture: chairs -- Table -- Parrot stand -- Pets -- Reference to Lecture on heads by George Alexander Stevens.
Publisher:
Printed for S. Sledge, printseller in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 December 1771]
Call Number:
771.12.14.01+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 14. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat man attempting to mount a horse, assisted by a groom, while a couple laugh from an upper window."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
London jockeys going to Newmarket
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., For a variant state with plate number "16" etched in upper left corner, see no. 4636 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Inn sign -- Inn: The Moon.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Decemr. 14th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Horse grooms, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Couples
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 December 1771]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 14. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat man attempting to mount a horse, assisted by a groom, while a couple laugh from an upper window."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
London jockeys going to Newmarket
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., For a variant state with plate number "16" etched in upper left corner, see no. 4636 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Inn sign -- Inn: The Moon., On leaf 14., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 25.2 x 35 cm, on 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Decemr. 14th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Horse grooms, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Couples
publish'd according to act of Parliament, April 20, 1771.
Call Number:
771.04.20.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable Brass Crosby, Esqr
Description:
Title from item., After imprint: Price 1s., Oval bust portrait of Brass Crosby, with an engraved broadside below, both enclosed in ornamental scrolls., Inscribed below portrait: Elected member of Parliament for Honiton, 17 March 1768. Chosen Lord Mayor of London 29 September 1770. Sent prisoner to the Tower 27 March 1771., The text of the broadside contains Address of the Borough of Honiton in Devonshire to Sir George Yonge, Bart. and Brass Crosby, Esqr., followed by The answer of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor to the worthy electors of the Borough of Honiton., Temporary local subject terms: Lord Mayors of London: Brass Crosby -- Addresses: Honiton, Devonshire -- Maces: royal mace -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Buildings: Tower of London -- Arms: City arms, London -- Reference to alderman's oath -- Reference to City charter -- Emblems: scales of Justice -- Brass Crosby, 1725-1793, Lord Mayor of London, 1771., and Watermark: British Lion.
Leaf 16. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three men examine a curious head, which the man on the left is lifting off a low pedestal. The head has hollow eyesockets, is missing the nose, but has a moustache and wears what purports to be a crown. In the middle of the picture the man who faces us wears a brocaded coat, the star and ribbon of the Order of the Bath[?]. The fat man on our right is a portrait of Francis Grose, antiquarian and draughtsman. He holds a magnifying glass in his right hand and what looks like a small carved animal [possibly an armadillo?] in his left hand over the head
Alternative Title:
Connoisseurs
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Printseller's announcement following imprint statement: ... where may be had the greatest variety of comic prints, by several ladies, gentlemen, and the most humourous artists., One line of text below title: The head is undetermined, some taking it for Julius Caesar, some for Holifernes, other for an antideluvian [sic] law giver &c., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials LVG below., and Matted to 49 x 62 c
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Sepr. 1th [sic], 1771, by MDarly, engraver, (39) Strand ...
Leaf 16. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three men examine a curious head, which the man on the left is lifting off a low pedestal. The head has hollow eyesockets, is missing the nose, but has a moustache and wears what purports to be a crown. In the middle of the picture the man who faces us wears a brocaded coat, the star and ribbon of the Order of the Bath[?]. The fat man on our right is a portrait of Francis Grose, antiquarian and draughtsman. He holds a magnifying glass in his right hand and what looks like a small carved animal [possibly an armadillo?] in his left hand over the head
Alternative Title:
Connoisseurs
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Printseller's announcement following imprint statement: ... where may be had the greatest variety of comic prints, by several ladies, gentlemen, and the most humourous artists., One line of text below title: The head is undetermined, some taking it for Julius Caesar, some for Holifernes, other for an antideluvian [sic] law giver &c., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., On leaf 16., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 25.2 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Sepr. 1th [sic], 1771, by MDarly, engraver, (39) Strand ...
