Two superimposed prints connected at the top edge by a paper hinge. The face of the print on top (Beau 1700) has been cut out to show the face of Beau 1791. Each is fashionably dressed in the respective styles of the period
Alternative Title:
Beau 1791
Description:
Title engraved above images., Sheets trimmed mostly within plate mark., Two lines of verse below Beau 1700: Then the full flaxen wig, spread o'er the shoulders ..., Two lines of verse below Beau 1791: But now the whole's revers'd -- each fop appears ..., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 22, 1791, by C. Fourdrinier, Junr., Charing Cross
Two superimposed prints connected at the top edge by a paper hinge. The face of the print on top (Beau 1700) has been cut out to show the face of Beau 1791. Each is fashionably dressed in the respective styles of the period
Alternative Title:
Beau 1791
Description:
Title engraved above images., Sheets trimmed mostly within plate mark., Two lines of verse below Beau 1700: Then the full flaxen wig, spread o'er the shoulders ..., Two lines of verse below Beau 1791: But now the whole's revers'd -- each fop appears ..., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 22, 1791, by C. Fourdrinier, Junr., Charing Cross
Key plate to the print of the Death of the Earl of Chatham, in the Upper Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, 1778, with 55 members identified
Description:
Title engraved at top of image., John Singleton Copley's oil painting on which the engraving was based, was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780 and is now held at the Tate Gallery, London., and Mounted on linen, bordered in silk; rolled with silk ties.
Publisher:
Published by John Singleton Copley, R.A., Decr. 26, 1791, and sold at Parr's Print Warehouse, No. 52 Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Copley, John Singleton, 1737-1815., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords,
Volume 2, page 73. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of a man wearing large-brimmed and feathered hat and carrying a rifle over his shoulder, his catch attached to his belt, which two of the six dogs grouped around him look at with interest at left; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "First state with etched letters, before re-publication"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0712.442., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 73 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd January 5th, 1791, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
A view of the church at Cheltenham and the churchyard with gravestones
Description:
Title engraved below image., Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; numbered '23' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff., and Paper with watermark '1791'.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Dec. 17, 1787 by Richd. Bigland
Subject (Geographic):
Cheltenham (England) and England.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Churches, and Cemeteries
Trade card for the Italian-born printmaker James Anthony Minasi (1776-1865), who was born in Calabria and became a Bartolozzi pupil after coming to England. Illustrated with an angelic winged putto concentratiing on a print book
Alternative Title:
Drawing taught by J. Minasi, in the style of F. Bartolozzi ...
"A stout farmer rides (left to right) past an inn on a cow. The cow befouls and tramples on a paper inscribed 'Tax on Ho[rses]'. The farmer looks triumphantly over his right shoulder at a group of spectators standing at the door of the inn, and snaps his fingers, saying, "Pitt be D------d". A basket containing poultry hangs from the saddle. Part of the inn is on the left of the design, its sign is a stout man holding a foaming tankard gazing at three sacks, inscribed 'Joe Jolly 1784' (a '7' appears to have been etched over the '4'). Five amused spectators stand by the door; from a window above two men applaud the farmer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue of a print originally published in 1784., Pitt's budget of 1784 imposed an annual tax of 10s. on saddle- and carriage-horses, exempting those used for trade and agriculture. On 27 November 1784 one Jonathan Thatcher rode his cow to and from the market of Stockport in protest against the horse-tax. See Chambers, 'Book of Days', ii. 627, where there is a copy of a similar print., and For a variant state, see no. 6672 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
"Lord Stanhope, stooping in profile to the left, hurries furtively from an open doorway into the street, his right hand raised, his left hand holding his hat behind his back. Rolled documents project from his pocket inscribed 'Toasts'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Caricatures published under the pseudonym Annibal Scratch have been attributed to Samuel Collings., Series title and number from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of series title., Plate from: Attic miscellany, v. ii, p. 395., and With a literaturea llusion to Samuel Foote's The Mayor of Garret and referencing the Revolution Society.
Portrait of John Horne Tooke; half length, to the right, wearing queue wig and unbuttoned black jacket over a waistcoat and cravat
Description:
Title engraved below image., Later state, with altered imprint statement. For an earlier state with the imprint "Published March 25th, 1791, by A. Smith, No. 10 Millbank Row," see National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D6960)., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 339 (leaf numbered '160' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 10th, 1791, by Anker Smith, Church Lane Chelsea, & No. 9 Milbank Row, also by Mr. Skelton in the Hay Markey and Printed by C.W. Richards
"Portrait of Lady Arabella Seymour, born Stuart; three-quarter length, slightly to the left; one hand resting on table to the left with two books behind; wearing pearls that reach down to her waist."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lady Arabella Stuart
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a proof state; for a later state with title re-etched and plate number added in upper right corner, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4., Possibly engraved after the drawing by Vertue that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 124 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.
Volume 2, page 80. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A kneeling woman reads the palm of a girl standing at left in travelling clothes with a basket on her arm, two others watching, leaning on a fence behind, children and a dog sitting beside a fire at right, over which a large pan hangs; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Fourteen lines of verse below image, seven on either side of title: Last Friday's eve, when, as the sun was set, I, near yon stile, three sallow gipsies met ... Vide Gay's Pastorals., and Mounted on page 80 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20, 1791, by Thos. Macklin, Poets' Gallery, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fences, Children, Dogs, Campfires, and Pots & pans
Scott, Edmund, approximately 1746-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 May 1791]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 74. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three women walking side by side in a field, at left holding a lute and pointing towards the silhouette of a town at right, the figure at right holding a tambourine and the third in the centre wearing a wide brimmed hat and looking directly out at the viewer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Text below title: Grace is in all their steps, in every gesture dignity & love., and Mounted on page 74 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Trade card for Thomas Sandby, junior; the daughter of Dibutades embracing her lover and outlining his shadow on the wall, while he holds a lamp on left; within oval on pedestal."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mr. Sandby Junior
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Silhouette painting -- Lighting: oil lamps., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1791 by T. Sandby, St. Georges Row, London
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to Cumberland's History of Nicholas Pedrosa, from the Attic miscellany, v. ii, opp. p. 153., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A plan of a coffee plantation with areas numbered 1 through 40, and the key engraved below: "Reference to the plan."
Description:
Title from caption below image., Numbered '78' below imprint., The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the early plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist., and Plate for: Stedman, J. G. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America. London : J. Johnson & T. Payne, 1806-1813.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1791 by J. Johnson. St. Paul's Church Yard
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1612); three-quarter length, directed and facing to the left and looking slightly to the front, left hand at his side, glove on right hand, resting in a fist on a table in front of him, with an inkwell and papers; closed letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from Hamilton., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Bound in opposite title page (leaf numbered '2' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, April 30th, 1791, by Jno. Hall, No. 83 Berwick Street, Sold by W. Dickenson, Bond Street, T. Macklin, Poets Gallery & Fleet Street, & B.B. Evans in the Poultry, &c., and Printed by C.W. Richards
"Portrait of Richard II, half-length, facing the viewer, holding his sceptre and his orb, seated on a throne, with a small beard and moustache and a crown over his curling hair, dressed in an ermine-lined mantle with a jewelled collar over a robe embroidered with roses and crowned 'R's."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Richard the Second
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Publisher:
Pub'd. Octr. 28, 1791 by N. Smith Gt. Mays Buildings, St. Martins Lane
View of King Theodore's monument on a wall in the churchyard of St. Ann Westminster, with a lengthy biographical description (eleven lines) engraved below image, and with citations to Frederic's Memoires of Corsica among others
Alternative Title:
Near this place is interred Theodore King of Corsica who died in this parish Dec. 11, 1756
Description:
Title from caption below in image., Alternative title from text below image., Early state before the additon of text above image: Erected and inscribed by the Honorable Horace Walpole., and Plate engraved for: Smith, J.T. Antiquities of London and its environs. London, 1798.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 2, 1791 by N. Smith, No. 18 Gt. Mays Buildings
Subject (Name):
Neuhof, Théodore-Antoine, baron de, 1690-1756. and Neuhof, Théodore-Antoine, baron de, 1690-1756
View of King Theodore's monument on a wall in the churchyard of St. Ann Westminster, with a lengthy biographical description (eleven lines) engraved below image, and with citations to Frederic's Memoires of Corsica among others
Alternative Title:
Near this place is interred Theodore King of Corsica who died in this parish Dec. 11, 1756
Description:
Title from caption below image., Alternative title from descriptive text below image., Later state with corrected text and alterations in design and with an additional caption above the image: Erected and inscribed by the Honorable Horace Walpole., and Plate from: Smith, J.T. Antiquities of London and its environs. London, 1798.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 2, 1791 by N. Smith, No. 18 Gt. Mays Buildings
Subject (Name):
Neuhof, Théodore-Antoine, baron de, 1690-1756. and Neuhof, Théodore-Antoine, baron de, 1690-1756
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Sir John Andrew Gallini and a Spanish dancer
Description:
Titles etched below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1791, page 25., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st Feb. 1791 by A. Hamilton Junr. Fleet Street
An allegorical print with two tableaux illustrating on the right, the end of a righteous life and on the left the end of the life of a man who made wealth his object of faith. The religious man in bed surrounded by books and against the background of an attractive library, is greeted by the winged figure of Time clutching a scythe and an hourglass. In contrast, the greedy man, his gouty leg wrapped in bandages and resting on a stool, recoils against the figure of a spear-wielding skeleton, upsetting his table
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each with an identical publication line etched at the base of the oval design., Date of publication based on publisher's street address; C. Sheppard was only located at Lambeth Hill through 1791. See British Museum online catalogue., With quotations from the Bible's Book of Psalms etched below each title., and Copies after prints with the same titles by Thomas A.E. Chambars based on Francis Hayman.
Publisher:
Sold by C. Sheppard, No. 19 Lambeth Hill, Doctors Commons, London
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Concepts, Deathbeds, Libraries (Rooms & spaces), Scythes, Hourglasses, and Skeletons
Volume 2, page 79. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 19. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A girl kneeling before a fence with a dog beside her, a goose in the basket which she holds in her right hand; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 79 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1st, 1791, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Volume 2, page 79. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 19. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A girl kneeling before a fence with a dog beside her, a goose in the basket which she holds in her right hand; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 19 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving, etching, and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 43.3 x 32.7 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1st, 1791, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Title from item., Plate from: Bon Ton magazine, Dec. 1791, v. i, p. 363., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: sitting room -- Singers -- Music sheets -- Furniture: sofas.
Volume 2, page 82. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Dr Priestley sitting at a garden table, looking at a mouse in a semi-circular cage, smiling as he listens to Mrs Barbauld who stands pleading for its release and another woman and Charles Rochemond Aikin, a little boy look on, with trees all around; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Sixteen lines of verse below image, eight on either side of title: Oh! hear a pensive prisoner's prayer, for liberty that sighs; and never let thine heart be shut against a wretch's cries ... Vide Mrs. Barbauld's poem., and Mounted on page 82 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20, 1791, by Thos. Macklin, 39 Fleet Street
Title from item., Two lines of verse on plate below image: Though parsons often patience teach ..., Illustration to ballad The Patient Parson. The text of the ballad is printed below the plate., Publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: Just published in this manner, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, The Greenwich Pensioner, Poll and My Partner Joe, and many other esteemed songs and pieces. In Fores's exhibition, No. 3 Piccadilly may be seen the compleatest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ballads -- Clergy wives --Parsonage -- Pictures amplifying subject: 'Job in his distress' -- Wall clock -- Furniture: dinner table., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Hon. Charles Wyndham and Mrs. Hodges
Description:
Titles engraved below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" inthe Town and Country Magazine, 1791, page 99., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st April 1791 by A. Hamilton Junr. Fleet Street
Title from item., Attributed to Cruikshank from reproduction of the original drawing for this print. See Wark., From a series of Drolls., Temporary local subject terms: Military recruitment -- Military uniforms: recruiting sergeant's uniform -- Recruiting drummer's uniforms -- Buildings: inns -- Military: recruiting sergeants -- Drums -- Furniture: tresle tables -- Settles -- Puns -- Costume: cocked hats, 1791 -- Military: drummers -- Yokels -- Signs: chequered inn sign -- Landlords., and Watermark (partial): armorial shield.
Publisher:
Published 10th March 1791, by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
"Pitt the elder falls back after speaking in the House of Lords; on the walls are the tapestries of the defeat of the Spanish Armada."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Death of the Earl of Chatham
Description:
Title from dedication below image. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs May 1st 1791 by J.S. Copley, no. 24 George Street Hanover Square
An admission ticket to the 1791 Handel commemoration held in Westminster Abbey, engraved with symbolic figures, one playing a spinet or harpsichord
Alternative Title:
Admittance either of the following days, May, the 23rd ...
Description:
Title engraved above image. and With the signatures of Samuel Arnold and John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich; affixed with two paper seals in red ink, partially legible: one the seal of the Royal Society of Musicians, and the other the seal of Sandwich with the motto "Post tot naufragia portum." For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. and Royal Society of Musicians (Great Britain)
Title, printmaker, artist, and date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits. Place of publication surmised from printmaker's place of activity. and Annotation in ms. in right lower corner: April 12, 1797.
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1791]
Call Number:
Portraits M282 no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1214); three-quarter length seated to right with her head in profile, resting on her left hand, a book in her right; seascape through window at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from published state., Artist and printmaker from statement of responsibility on published state: Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, & engraved by the late J.K. Sherwin, Historical Engraver to his Majesty, & His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; finish'd since his decease., Publication information inferred from imprint on published state: London : Published June 4th. 1791 by Robt. Wilkinson No. 58 Cornhill., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For published state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1838,0715.50.
Publisher:
Robt. Wilkinson
Subject (Name):
Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners, Duchess of, 1756-1831,