Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Anne Brown, later Mrs. Cargill numbered 2, and Miles Peter Andrews numbered 3.
Alternative Title:
Combustible lover
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue., Plate from: "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1776, p. 9., and Mounted with pages 9-12 of the magazine, on board 21 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Andrews, Miles Peter, -1814. and Cargill, Ann, 1748?-1784.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 10, 1776.
Call Number:
776.04.10.01+
Collection Title:
Leaf 9. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half length front view of a woman with elaborate hairstyle occupying the upper two thirds of the plate. Garlands of flowers together with fruit and feathers issue from within the monumental coiffure
Alternative Title:
Mountain head dress of 1776 and Mountain headdress of 1776
Description:
Title etched below image., Tentatively attributed to Matthias Darly in the British Museum catalogue., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 10, 1776.
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 9. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half length front view of a woman with elaborate hairstyle occupying the upper two thirds of the plate. Garlands of flowers together with fruit and feathers issue from within the monumental coiffure
Alternative Title:
Mountain head dress of 1776 and Mountain headdress of 1776
Description:
Title etched below image., Tentatively attributed to Matthias Darly in the British Museum catalogue., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 9., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.2 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of woman identified only as Mrs. S-ns. on left, numbered 37, and a popular dissenting preacher on the right numbered 38.
Alternative Title:
Caledonian orator
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1775 (Supplement), p. 675.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Leaf 3. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Couples awkwardly dance in a hall, the men wearing tricornes and the women wearing hats or elaborate hairstyles. Two musicians are seen in the background on the right; sconces line the far wall
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On leaf 3.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1, 1776, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dance, Couples, Hats, Hairstyles, and Sconces
Leaf 6. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a closed carriage made visible by being bisected longitudinally. In it two young ladies of pleasing appearance sit face to face in profile, apparently on the floor, or on very low seats, to make room for their monstrous mounds of hair. These are decorated with feathers, flowers, vegetables, &c. as in British Museum Satires No. 5370. One (right) holds a paper inscribed "Pantheon 3d Subscription", the other holds a fan. The roof of the carriage is ornamented with two ducal coronets."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Vis-à-vis bisected, or, The ladies coop and Ladies coop
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with "Strand" added at end of imprint statement. For an earlier state lacking this publisher's street address, see no. 5373 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: ?Devonshire, Georgiana (Spencer) Cavendish, Duchess of, 1757-1896 -- Walpole, Horace, Earl of Orford, 1717-1797, prints, NYPL 116 -- Interior of vis-à-vis -- Females headdress, 1776 -- Female costume, 1776: Theatre dress -- Ducal coronets -- Subscription tickets: 'Pantheon 3d Subscription' -- Theatres: Allusion to Pantheon, No. 359 Oxford Street., and On leaf 6.
Title from caption below image., Text below image in lower left: "Size of the picture, 2 f. 10 i. by 4 f. 1 i. in length.", Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XXIII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on canvas.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 30th, 1776, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., Numbered "340" in the lower left corner of the print., and Temporary local subject terms: Costume: female, 1776 -- Prostitutes -- Furniture: bed & tester -- Chair -- Carpets -- Bible: Proverbs VI, 25 & 26.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"View of the grand front of the theatre; a lion and unicorn to left and right of the pedament at top, with a sculpture of armour and weapons in the centre, pillasters across middle of building and an iron balcony above ground floor; in foreground to right a carriage and a sedan chair, to the left street traders and other figures."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Nouvelle façade, vers Bridges Street, de la principale entrée du Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., "Possibly an illustration from 'The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam', 1773-1822"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catlalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.3116., and Tipped in at page 640 (leaf numbered '89' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, London., and London,
Subject (Name):
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England), and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Buildings, Theaters, Facades, Carriages & coaches, Sedan chairs, Street vendors, and Dogs