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 ...
Description:
Titles etched below images.
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
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.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 22, 1791, by C. Fourdrinier, Junr., Charing Cross
"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 ...
"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.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1791 by T. Sandby, St. Georges Row, London
"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 Museu...
Title, printmaker, artist, and date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits. Place of publication surmised from printmaker's place of activity.
"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.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs May 1st 1791 by J.S. Copley, no. 24 George Street Hanover Square
"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 embr...
Alternative Title:
Richard the Second
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd. Octr. 28, 1791 by N. Smith Gt. Mays Buildings, St. Martins Lane
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 ...
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.
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
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.
Publisher:
Robt. Wilkinson
Subject (Name):
Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners, Duchess of, 1756-1831,
"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
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.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 22, 1791, by C. Fourdrinier, Junr., Charing Cross
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.
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
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."--...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd January 5th, 1791, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet 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.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1st, 1791, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
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; ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20, 1791, by Thos. Macklin, 39 Fleet Street
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....
Description:
Title etched below image.
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 th...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
