"Dedication sheet 'To the Queen' from the singer Harriet Abrams; three cherubs sitting facing right, singing, on clouds which curve up and support a lyre and laurel above them, below a crown in rays of light; for an unidentified publication."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image. and Print possibly designed as the frontispiece or title page for a musical work dedicated to Queen Charlotte. See Wright.
"J. Flyn delin et sculp." and Letter from Percy A. Scholes to Alfred Moffat tipped in at end; inscribed: Alfred Moffat (a present from Frank Kidson) 31 May 1923; ms. notes in Moffat's hand; an engraved portrait of Charles Burney tipped onto front paste-down; a sheet from bookseller Otto Haas containing the description of this volume tipped onto front fly-leaf.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by R. Bremner facing Somerset House, Strand,
"Dies Buch ist einer Auflage von 510 in der Presse numerierten Exemplaren von der Spamerschen Buchdruckerei in Leipzig im Jahre 1924 gedruckt worden. Die Holzschnitte wurden von den Originalstöcken abgezogen. Die gesamte Buchausstattung erfolgte nach Angabe des Künstlers, der auch Einband und Vorsatz in Holz schnitt. Nr. 1 bis 10 des Buches wurden auf Japanbütten abgezogen, in Ganzleder gebunden und vom Künstler eigenhändig signiert."--T.p. verso. and BEIN Zg20 H611 912Ub: No. 35.
Fortune, blindfolded and with one foot on her wheel, is guided by Wisdom who wears a plumed helmet and carries a spear. They stand on a cloud while a putto walks between them showering banknotes on the Hibernian Magazine's readers, who celebrate on the right side of the foreground, while snakes and demonic figures are kept at bay to the left
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 404; T. (Thomas) Walker, publisher of the Hibernian Magazine, was located at Dame Street, Dublin from 1770-1786., and At top of image: "Frontispiece" (probably from the Hibernian Magazine ca. 1775).
Half-length portrait of William Hogarth, facing viewer, slightly turned to the right; he holds a palette in his left hand
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth
Description:
Title from caption below image., After a portrait by Hogarth., Page from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. ii, frontispiece., On page 207 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 19.1 x 12.8 cm., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand to side of print: From S. Ireland's Graphic Illustrations &c.
Half-length portrait of William Hogarth, facing viewer, slightly turned to the right; he holds a palette in his left hand
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth
Description:
Title from caption below image., After a portrait by Hogarth., and Page from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. ii, frontispiece.
Title devised by cataloger based on Paulson titles for Hogarth's originals., Designed originally for John Beaver's Roman military punishments; used as frontispiece., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 47., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 66., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 69., Ms. note in ink on mount above print, in Steevens's hand: In the title-page., and On page 24 in volume 1.
A scene from La Calprenede's Cassandra used as the frontispiece to the 3rd edition and translated by Sir Charles Cotterell and published by John Darby in London, September 1725
Alternative Title:
Cassandra, Frontispiece, Volume 3
Description:
Title, date, and publisher from Paulson., "Vol: 3"--Lower left, below image., One of five frontispieces engraved for the five volume set of the third edition of Sir Charles Cotterell's English translation of La Calprenède's Cassandre, published by John Darby in 1725., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
John Darby
Subject (Name):
La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, -1663.