A view of the east front of Strawberry Hill, looking from the Thames. A gentleman and lady converse on the left. On the right a workman tends the lawn with a scythe
Description:
Title below image., Numbered in upper left: Vol. 1. Numbered in upper right: P. 22., and Plate from: New display of the beauties of England. London : R. Goadby, 1773, vol, i, opp. p. 22.
Publisher:
R. Goadby
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Satire [on] singers in country churches. Six men sing enthusiastically from one hymn book, while another, on the left, wearing a wig, plays a wind instrument; a young man and young woman look down from a gallery. On the wall behind hangs an escutcheon with three owls."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Smith, No. 35, Cheapside, & Robt. Sayer, No. 53, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Churches, Choir stalls, Choirs (Music), Singing, and Wind instruments
Title from item., "Price 6d."--Lower right corner of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Dueling: mock duel with canes -- Swords -- Guns: pistols -- Toupée and queue wigs -- Expressions of speech: fag (i.e., toil) -- Expressions of speech: gig (i.e., fool) -- Male dress, 1771-- Macaronies -- Gallows -- Surgeons -- Canes -- Theatre -- Allusion to Flanders -- Riots.
Publisher:
Sold by Mrs. Sledge next Southhampton Strt, Covent Garden, & I. Swan in the Strand
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: The batchelor by William Congreve., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Window mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Basins (Containers)., Bedrooms, Chairs, Clothes chests, Gout, Interiors, Medical equipment & supplies, Men, Older people, Pitchers, and Women domestics
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three columns of verse below title: Behold this group of oddities, and then / You'll see how fancy works in different men! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Congregations -- Interiors: barn -- Preachers -- Tubs -- Conventicles -- Oxen -- Fowl -- Bible: quotation from Matthew, 22.13 -- Bible: altered quotation from Matthew, 13.43.
Title from text engraved around image., Printmaker's name in scratch-proof letters., Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of business., and Tim Bobbin is a pseudonym of John Collier.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bobbin, Tim, 1708-1786, and Bobbin, Tim, 1708-1786.
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Artists' brushes, and Palettes
