"A double portrait showing Mary Tudor and her second husband Charles Brandon, half-length; with Mary on the left, holding an emblem consisting of a caduceus emerging from a flower in her right hand, the other held by Charles Brandon, who wears a fur-trimmed overgown and the collar of the Garter, with a curtain behind to left, and with crown, Hand of Justice, sceptre, crests, lance and gloves on the plinth of the frame surrounding them."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Her Royal Grace the Queen of France, sister of K. Henry VIII, married to Lewis XII [the] French king, afterwards to the Duke of Suffolk
Description:
Title engraved within banner below image on inner plate; alternative title engraved within lion's hide on outer plate., Determined to be the republished state from 1776 based on the type of paper., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was published., Plate from: Vertue, G. A description of nine historical prints representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family. [London] : Republished by the Society [of Antiquaries of London], 1776., Image printed from two plates; the larger architectural frame surrounding the main image is engraved on a separate, outer plate., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark of outer plate with loss of plate number from top edge and dedication from bottom edge. Missing text and numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: Y,5.143., At bottom of outer plate is engraved a dedication from the engraver to John Carteret, Earl of Granville, contemporary owner of the original., "Pl. III"--Above image in upper right., Engraved after a painting that was later acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 114 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:
Society of Antiquaries of London
Subject (Name):
Mary, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1496-1533,, Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, approximately 1484-1545,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait; bust length, to right; in decorated oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Plate from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : R. Baldwin, v. 45 (August 1776)., and "London mage."--Above image in upper right.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of the 3rd Duke of Dorset, and his unidentified mistress Miss G-m. The woman is on the left numbered 28, with Dorset's portrait on right numbered 29.
Alternative Title:
Noble cricketer
Description:
Titles from text below images., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1776, page 513.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Dorset, John Frederick Sackville, Duke of, 1745-1799.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Sir Thomas Rumbold, and his unidentified mistress. The woman is on the left numbered 34, with Rumbold's portrait on right numbered 35.
Alternative Title:
Shaftesbury nabob
Description:
Title from item., Corrected publication date from British Museum catalogue., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1775 p. 625.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. near St. John's Gate
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of the 2nd Duke of Leinster, and his unidentified mistress Miss M-n. The woman is on the left numbered 31, with Leinster's portrait on right numbered 32.
Alternative Title:
Hibernian patriot
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1776, page 569.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804,
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Francis Sykes, M.P. for Shaftesbury and his alleged mistress. The woman is on the left numbered 16 and Sykes on the right, numbered 17.
Alternative Title:
Disappointed nabob
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., According to E.J. Burford, the woman in the print may be Miss Raymond., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1776 p. 289.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Two men playing shuttlecock, an obese clergyman on the left and a gentleman in pigtail queue on right. Their airborne "shuttlecock" is a woman with the huge feathered coiffure of the day and the fashionable "cork rump" or bustle visible beneath her skirts
Alternative Title:
Miss shuttlecock
Description:
Title from item., R.S. monogram in image may refer to Richard Sneer (i.e., R. B. Sheridan) or to the identity of the print's subject., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Verse beneath title: Ladie likes [sic] shuttle-cocks are now array'd, the tail is cork'd & feather'd is the head., and Verso with contemporary ms. inscription.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
Subject (Topic):
Badminton (Game), Hairstyles, Badminton, and Clothing & dress
Ten different illustrations in two rows of five compartments, each containing a separate title and an object for each, for example a picture of a 17th century shoe entitled "Antique Base", a naval officer's uniform titled "Lady's attraction".
Description:
Title from item., MD of publisher's name form a monogram., and In plate above image, "40" and "v.2"
Publisher:
Pub. acc. to act April 1, 1776, by M Darly 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Puzzles, Shoes, Wigs, Hats, and Fans (Accessories)
