Plate [155] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; Hercules seated on a rock in the foreground, looking at a scene of naval battle on a scroll within clouds above which Fame flies with trumpets and banner."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Spanish fleet destroyed at Santa Cruz, 1656
Description:
Title from text within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [155] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
"View in Covent Garden showing St Paul's Church on fire; flames and smoke rising from the roof; in foreground people gather to watch spectacle, some on the tops of stalls, empty barrels, sacks and pieces of wood in foreground to left and right"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Saint Paul's, Covent-Garden : as it appeared on fire, at eight o'clock on Thursday evening, 17th Sepr. 1795
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title begins: Was built by that celebrated architect Inigo Jones, in 1640, by the direction and at the expence of the Earl of Bedford ..., and Mounted to 35 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Published 5th Novr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Plate [134] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; diagram showing the rectos and versos of five coins from the Stuart period, on a plaque with decorative border, surmounted by a medallion showing grieving female allegorical figure, flanked by unicorns."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Image consists of two interconnected designs, each with its own statements of responsibility etched below., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Plate [134] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: who has lately fitted up his exhibition in an entire novel state, admittance one shilling. Folios lent., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Fencibles' uniforms -- Military: soldiers as rats -- Food: cheese as fortifications -- Suffolk -- Suffolk Fencibles., Watermark: center of sheet., and Booksellers' stamps: S.W. Fores
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1st 1795 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Plate [88] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Title-page to Bowyer's edition to Hume's 'History of England'; armed men leading monks out of a monastery, while they look back unhappily towards books, Chalice and Crucifix lying in a pile on the right; headpiece with plaque below with chapter reference and contents' list."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [88] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Plate [11] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; rays of sunlight shining above an altar with a cross, chalice and bible on top, a crown on a cushion and armour around the foot."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Heptarchy
Description:
Title from text in image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [11] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
"Portrait with thick hair, beard and moustache; full-length standing directed to right looking ahead, left foot advanced and a right hand holding a wand, plumed hat in his right hand at his side, wearing a patterned doublet and hose under a knee-length tunic and long cloak, Garter regalia and lace ruff, a sword at his hip; with fringed gloves on a table to right and a curtain above; after Somer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 129 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Volume 2, page 92. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man leaning on a table at left at which a lady is seated, turning to look at the prince at right, his sword hanging on a chain around his waist, three girls watch the meeting through an arch behind; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image, enclosed within parentheses., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 92 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Pub'd April 10, 1795, by W. Dickinson, No. 53 next York House, Piccadilly
A military-drill aid, dissected into twelve panels, providing a step-by-step pictorial guide to basic infantry exercises 'as practised by His Majesty's Army'. The whole consists of two separate evolutions: 'Manual Exercise' in eight steps, which involves the fixing and use of bayonets but with no firing or reloading; and 'Platoon Exercise' in ten steps, including the firing of muskets and subsequent reloading. Each dissected panel features two steps, with the three remaining panels containing the 'Position of an Officer' and '3 Ranks. Make Ready', the decorated title vignette, and ''3 Ranks. Present - Fire' alongside a detailed schematic of a musket, in both assembled and disassembled forms. Engraved after the work of English artist and printmaker Robert Dighton, this guide was issued at the beginning of the most acute stage of the first Napoleonic invasion scare and sold folded in a slipcase
Description:
Title and imprint statement from plate., With original marbled paper-covered slipcase with two printed labels: one bearing the same title and imprint statement "London: Printed for the proprietors, Bowles and Carver, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard" and the other label with an advertisement "Just published" and a description of Bowles's New four-sheet maps., Printed label with same title and imprint statement "London: Printed for the proprietors, Bowles and Carver, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and mounted on linen., and Case only. Plate shelved as: 795.01.02.01+
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles and Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Military education, Military training, and British
A military-drill aid, dissected into twelve panels, providing a step-by-step pictorial guide to basic infantry exercises 'as practised by His Majesty's Army'. The whole consists of two separate evolutions: 'Manual Exercise' in eight steps, which involves the fixing and use of bayonets but with no firing or reloading; and 'Platoon Exercise' in ten steps, including the firing of muskets and subsequent reloading. Each dissected panel features two steps, with the three remaining panels containing the 'Position of an Officer' and '3 Ranks. Make Ready', the decorated title vignette, and ''3 Ranks. Present - Fire' alongside a detailed schematic of a musket, in both assembled and disassembled forms. Engraved after the work of English artist and printmaker Robert Dighton, this guide was issued at the beginning of the most acute stage of the first Napoleonic invasion scare and sold folded in a slipcase
Description:
Title and imprint statement from plate., With original marbled paper-covered slipcase with two printed labels: one bearing the same title and imprint statement "London: Printed for the proprietors, Bowles and Carver, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard" and the other label with an advertisement "Just published" and a description of Bowles's New four-sheet maps., Printed label with same title and imprint statement "London: Printed for the proprietors, Bowles and Carver, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and mounted on linen., and Case shelved as: 63 N532 795.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles and Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Military education, Military training, and British
