"Portrait of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, bust directed to right but looking at the viewer, with square beard, wearing a ruff and lace collar, a column beyond; in an architectural oval with pedestal and urn below; a putto holding a torch and weeping over the sitter's decapitated head which lies next to an axe."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., "In the collection of Sr. Robert Worsley Bart."--Below image., Engraved after the minature later acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the rosewood cabinet in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 133 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., 1 print : engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 36.7 x 23 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, bust directed to right but looking at the viewer, with square beard, wearing a ruff and lace collar, a column beyond; in an architectural oval with pedestal and urn below; a putto holding a torch and weeping over the sitter's decapitated head which lies next to an axe."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., "In the collection of Sr. Robert Worsley Bart."--Below image., and Engraved after the minature later acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the rosewood cabinet in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Publisher:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., Four columns of quotation below image and on either side of title: This fortress built by Nature for her self, against infection and the hand of War ... Shakespears [sic] K. Richard 2d., Temporary local subject terms: Spanish flag -- English flag -- British lion -- Ploughs -- English merchants as slaves -- Male costume: Spanish captain -- Whips -- Spanish War of 1738 -- Pirates: Guarda Costas -- Robert Jenkins, fl. 1731-1738 -- Captain Fandino, fl. 1738 (cut off Jenkins's ear)., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
"Portrait of Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a tall hat and ruff; in an ornamental oval with curtain beyond; below a putto holding a sceptre; books and scrolls in lower left; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Francis Bacon Viscount St. Albans Lord Chancellor
Description:
Title from text in image., Engraved after a painting by John Vanderbank. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1927,1126.1.7.5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., "In the Possession of Martin Foulkes Esqr."--Below image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 375 (leaf numbered '192' 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:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Name):
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626,
Subject (Topic):
Philosophers, Statesmen, British, Putti, and Scepters
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd November the 26th 1738 according to the late act.
Call Number:
738.11.26.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
European race heat second anno domini 1738
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One line of quotation from the Bible below title: Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter ... Ecclesiastes the 12th, verse the 13th., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sep. 4, 1738.
Call Number:
738.09.04.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to C. Moseley from another state. See Stephens., State without printmaker's name, the figure of Pope in the image, and with the later publication date. See Stephens., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of quotation from Bible below title: [I return]ed and saw under the Sun, that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong ... Ecclesiastes the 9th, verse the 11th., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet., and Mounted, mounted again to 34 x 48 cm.
Interior scene with the two men in disquise, one looking in the mirror; a wallshelf with plates, antlers and escutcheon decorate the walls; a heap of clothes on the floor lower left. Through the open door to the outside can be seen a man drinking from a jug seated on a stool at a table under a tree
Alternative Title:
Curate and barber disguising themselves to convey Don Quixote home
Description:
Title etched below image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Book 3rd. Ch: 13th.", "Vol. I. p. 166"--Lower left, below image., and On page 87 in volume 1. Trimmed to plate mark 260 x 175 mm.
Interior scene with the two men in disquise, one looking in the mirror; a wallshelf with plates, antlers and escutcheon decorate the walls; a heap of clothes on the floor lower left. Through the open door to the outside can be seen a man drinking from a jug seated on a stool at a table under a tree
Alternative Title:
Curate and barber disguising themselves to convey Don Quixote home
Description:
Title etched below image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Book 3rd. Ch: 13th.", and "Vol. I. p. 166"--Lower left, below image.
An illustration for Chapter 6 (not Chapter 5) depicts the scene at the end of Marcella's speech
Alternative Title:
Funeral of Chrystom and Marcella vindicating herself and Don Quixote: The funeral of Chrysostom
Description:
Title etched below image., Added titles, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., "Vol. I, p. 71"--Lower left, below image., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
