"Portrait, three-quarter length, turned slightly to right, in widow's robe, seated in a chair before a curtain, holding gloves."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frances Brydges Countess of Exeter
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., The original painting by Van Dyck, formerly owned by Richardson, was acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 110 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., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in brown ink below title: The original, which was Richardson's, is now at Strawberry Hill.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st, 1777, by J. Thane, Gerrard Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Exeter, Frances Brydges, Countess of, 1580-1663, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of a young man, half-length, with elbow leaning on the back of a chair placed in front of him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 1 f. 3 1/4 i. by 1 f. 7 1/2 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate 39 in the first volume of: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788., and On same sheet: Captain of banditti.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1777, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"Trade card of Fraser, scientific instrument maker, with portrait of the astronomer James Ferguson at top, bust, slightly to left, in oval with garland and ribbon, scientific instruments on pedestal below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fraser, optical and mathematical instrument maker at Fergusons Head ... and James Ferguson
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1930,1115.1., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box.
Publisher:
William Fraser
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776,
Subject (Topic):
Scientific apparatus and instruments industry and Scientific equipment
Profile head of a woman facing right with her elaborate hair style occupying the upper three quarters of the plate. Her monumental coiffure is decorated with fruits, including melons, pears, and grapes, with, a basket of peaches at the summit, and others of plums and raspberries
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Signed in lower left of image by the engraver MD, i.e. Matthias Darly, and by the artist [?] [Miss] Bath on the right., and Numbered in plate at top: 17, V.2.
Title from caption below image., Text above image: Engraved for Russel's History of England., Publisher and date of publication from that of the volume., and Plate from: A new and authentic history of England ... / by William Augustus Russel, Esq. London : Printed for J. Cooke, 1777.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[26 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.26.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on gossiping women; two women, whole length in profile, fashionably dressed in enormous bonnets and carrying large fur muffs, encounter each other beside a lake."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 6, V.2.
In an oval, a half-length portrait of James Poro (born Giacomo Poro), shown with his shirt open to reveal his conjoined twin growing out of his stomach, named Matthew or Matteo. They were born in Genoa, Italy. The second small body could function almost normally. If you hurt him, he would cry, and he could move a little bit. Both James and Matteo were baptized
Description:
Title etched on base in image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., One line of text following subtitle: (see Gent. Mag. vol. XLVII, p. 424)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Monsters: Poro, James and Matthew, 1686-1714.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Lady Tyrconnel (daughter of Marquess of Granby) numbered 4, and the man with whom she had eloped, Charles Loraine Smith numbered 5.
Alternative Title:
Lady Tyrconnel and Charles Loraine Smith
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1777 page 65., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm, on board with pages 65-68 of the Magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Smith, Charles Loraine, 1751-1835. and Tyrconnel, Frances Manners, Lady, 1753-1792.
Full length depiction of an enormously fat gloved lady wearing a giant beribboned calash hat as she stands in an outdoor setting facing right. Huge curls of hair issue from beneath the hat, and her outer cloak, which is short enough to reveal two-tone shoes, is adorned with large bows and a floral pattern
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 37, v. 2.
