Portrait of Samuel Foote performing in his comedy Diversions of the morning; whole length, turned to the left with arms spread out and exclaiming "Oh! Ah! Bitch, what is all this?"; his hat and stick on the ground to the left
Description:
Title etched above image., Original drawing by Francis Hayman is held by the British Museum; see Catalogue of drawings by British artists and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain ..., v. 2, page 278, no. 2., Printmaker inferred from listed street address; George Bickham the Younger worked out of May's Buildings, Covent Garden at this time., Text below image: Harkee Tedy! Can't you make use of some mechanical means to keep [your] fire alive? Such as whispering to your self. Oh! Ah! Bitch &c., and Watermark: horn on crowned shield, with initials LVG below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777,
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Portrait prints, and Theatrical productions
Title from item., Publication from an unverified card catalog record., Twelve lines of verse in four columns below image: What a racket was made / By the heads of the trade ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Crimes: reference to smuggling -- Committees: Crown Tea Committee -- Reference to Sir Robert Walpole(?), 1676-1745 -- Reference to Henry Pelham, 1695?-1754., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Title from item., Printmaker's name probably a pseudonym., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on the right., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: hall at Oxford -- Thrones -- Clergy -- Sticks: wands -- Male dress: astronomer's Zodiac belt -- Hats: fool's cap -- Devil -- Smoking: bubble pipe -- Military uniforms: officer's uniform -- Furnishings: pedestals -- Satyrs -- Masks -- Curtains -- Writing implements: quills and inkwell -- Furniture: low table -- Lists -- Clubs: White Horse Club -- Literature: quotation from Horace's Epistles, i, ii.27 -- Sermons -- Allusion to the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bradley, James, 1693?-1762, Hoadly, Benjamin, 1676-1761, and Brown, Joseph, 1700-17667
"Trade card of Peter Griffin, printseller, at Dial and Three Crowns, Next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street, from the late Overtons; text on sheet at the centre with clock face and three crowns above; with various prints overlapping behind it, including maps, portraits, satires, and ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.32., Imprint engraved at top of plate; date of publication below image, lower right., Engraved above the image is a detailed list of wares for sale: All sorts of maps both foreign & English, fine French, Italian, Dutch, and English Prints; metzo-tinto heads, & historys black, or painted on glass; fitteth up Gent. halls, or large rooms [with] maps or prints on rolers, neatly puts into frames & glasses any of [the] above goods. NB. Where merchants, or sea commanders, country or town chapmen may be supplied wth. quanteties [sic] of the above goods, at the most reasonable rates, for exportation &c., and Date "1747" added in ink in lower right corner. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by Peter Griffin, map & printseller at the Three Crowns & Dial, next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street
A later state lettered with the name of the famous pugilist John Smith: a bald headed man in profile to left; the artist's father (?); later state with added title; third state with inscription, copy in reverse after Rembrandt
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Benjamin Wilson, after the print by Rembrandt, in the British Museum catalogue., A copy in reverse after Rembrandt's etching. See White, C. Rembrandt's etchings, no. 292, copy 4., Sheet trimmed to close to plate mark on top., On page 207 in volume 3., and Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand on separate scrap pasted below print: This is a mere copy from one of Rembrandt's small heads reversed. On taking it out of the frame in which it had been placed with much precaution, it appeared to have been recently printed off a modern French card. --Caveat emptor. In the year 1788, a gentleman picked it up (price 1s 6d) as a Broker's Shop in Goodman's Fields.
A head-and-shoulders portrait in profile to the left of the Duke of Cumberland in armor, enclosed in a small circular frame inscribed with title, surmounted by laurel branches and resting against the background of flags and weaponry and directly on top of a helmet and two shields with figures. Below, in an elaborate scroll are engraved six lines of verse in French: C'est ce Prince vaillant, dont l'intrepidité, arrête des rebelles, l'insolante fierté ... Beneath the scroll is a design of crossed flags, halberds, with breast plate and helmet in the center. The whole is enclosed in an oval frame that rests on a plinth engraved with six lines of verse in English: Rouz'd by fair Liberty, see William draw his vengeful sword, and daring rebels awe ...
Description:
Title from engraved text around the portrait., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Weapons -- Reference to the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765,
"View of the palace from the surrounding formal gardens; a brick wall dividing gardens, a fountain and paths in gardens outside palace to the left; in the foreground two trees to the right, figures strolling amongst it and in formal gardens to the left and beyond."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print of identical composition
Alternative Title:
Palais Royale de Hampton Court
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date of publication based on Robert Sayer's earliest year of activity. The address "near Sergeants Inn, Fleet Street" only appears on his very early prints; see British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of his Majesty's palaces and royal hospitals, and other public buildings in London, &c.", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 87, no. 9., Plate numbered "7" in upper right corner., and Leaf 52 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond upon Thames (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England),
View of Windsor Castle from across the river Thames, with boats on the water and two swans to the left. Three men with fishing poles and two women are seen on the bank in the foreground; a tree stands on the right
Alternative Title:
Palais Royale de Windsor
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date of publication based on Robert Sayer's earliest year of activity. The address "near Sergeants Inn, Fleet Street" only appears on his very early prints; see British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of his Majesty's palaces and royal hospitals, and other public buildings in London, &c.", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 87, no. 9., Imperfect; plate number erased from upper right corner of sheet. Missing number supplied from impression in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession no.: 29635:13., Plate numbered "8" in upper right corner., Watermark: 1804., and Leaf 19 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Berkshire (England) and Thames River (England),
Subject (Name):
Windsor Castle,
Subject (Topic):
Castles & palaces, Official residences, Rivers, and Boats
Title from caption above image., Attribution to John June from an unverified card catalog record., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twelve lines of verse in three columns below image: Ye smarts whose merit lies in dress take warning by a beaux distress ..., Temporary local subject terms: London: Holywell Street, Strand -- Street scenes: The Strand -- Buildings: Temple Bar -- Signboards: Trades -- Street stalls -- Butchers' shops -- Fishmongers' shops -- Butchers -- Signs: ship -- Bunch of grapes -- Practical jokes -- Animals: dogs -- Crowds: pedestrian crowds -- Flowerpots: pots on windowsills -- Dandies -- Female dress, 1747 -- Male dress, 1747., Watermark: Strasburg bend., and Window mounted to 27 x 34 cm.
