Shorthouse, J. H. (Joseph Henry), 1834-1903, artist
Published / Created:
[1892?]
Call Number:
81 776C v.1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, frontispiece. Coryat's crudities.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed with the artist J.H. Shorthouse's initials in lower right corner., Date of production from local card catalog record., With letters written around the border of the drawing, perhaps intended to correspond to a key., Copy of the engraved frontispiece issued with this work. Cf. No. 76 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and Bound in as the frontispiece in volume 1 of J.H. Shorthouse's copy of the 1776 reprint of Coryat's crudities.
Two women in neoclassical dress hold garlands and dance around a bust statue of Thomas Gray; trees and bushes are seen in the background
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower left corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Bound in as the frontispiece in an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Gray's Poems.
Title devised by cataloger., Frontispiece to: Hanway, J. Three letters on the subject of the Marine Society. London : Printed in the year 1758., "See Sheila O'Connell, 'London 1753', BM 2003, cat.3.26. The charitable Marine Society was founded in 1756 by Jonas Hanway, and this served as frontispiece to a pamphlet seeking support for it"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1872,1012.5145., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 27.1 x 20.4 cm., and Mounted after page 474 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Marine Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Organizations, Conference rooms, Beggars, and Sailors
Frontispiece to Joshua Kirby's 'Perspective of Architecture' (1761); landscape, with river, domed temple and city, in foreground the upper part of a column, its capital bearing emblems of the Prince of Wales, a cupid with a book inscribed " Palladio's Architect[ure]", a paper with geometrical figures struck by a ray from the rising sun
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece
Description:
Paulson's title: Frontispiece to Kirby's Perspective of architecture., State and publication information from Paulson., Original drawing in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Original., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: Brook Taylor's Perspective. See Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 371., and On page 185 in volume 2.
A lady (a Muse?), with a cello and open book with musical notations at her feet, addresses, on behalf of Leveridge's songs, Venus and Bacchus, shown in clouds above; Cupid stands at his mother's side presumably helping to persuade her
Description:
Title, printmaker and artist, state, and date from Paulson, With: Engraved title page for "A collection of songs with the musick by Mr. Leveridge. In two volumes. London : Engrav'd and printed for the author in Tavistock-Street, Covent-Garden, 1727.", "The ornaments around the title page many also be by Hogarth, but I see no very good reason to thinks so"--Paulson, p. 71., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Frontispiece only.
A lady (a Muse?), with a cello and open book with musical notations at her feet, addresses, on behalf of Leveridge's songs, Venus and Bacchus, shown in clouds above; Cupid stands at his mother's side presumably helping to persuade her
Description:
Title, printmaker and artist, state, and date from Paulson, With: Engraved title page for "A collection of songs with the musick by Mr. Leveridge. In two volumes. London : Engrav'd and printed for the author in Tavistock-Street, Covent-Garden, 1727.", "The ornaments around the title page many also be by Hogarth, but I see no very good reason to thinks so"--Paulson, p. 71., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Not inserted by Mr. Nichols., and On page 47 in volume 1. Plate mark 9.6 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 17.3 x 10 cm.
Frontispiece to James Miller, 'The Humours of Oxford', 2nd edition (London, 1730); scene in a tavern; at centre Haughty, a Fellow of one of the Oxford colleges, sits drunkenly disputing with the Vice-Chancellor, who stands at right; on the other side of the table at left, standing, are Conundrum (another Fellow), also drinking, and a servant, behind Conundrum on the wall, a framed 'Oxford Alm[anac]'; in the doorway, holding a truncheon, the Vice-Chancellor's attendant
Description:
Title and date from Paulson., Date based on other work by Van der Gucht., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Humours of Oxford / Old Impression / 169., and On page 52 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed: 17.8 x 11.1 cm.
Frontispiece to James Miller, 'The Humours of Oxford', 2nd edition (London, 1730); scene in a tavern; at centre Haughty, a Fellow of one of the Oxford colleges, sits drunkenly disputing with the Vice-Chancellor, who stands at right; on the other side of the table at left, standing, are Conundrum (another Fellow), also drinking, and a servant, behind Conundrum on the wall, a framed 'Oxford Alm[anac]'; in the doorway, holding a truncheon, the Vice-Chancellor's attendant
Description:
Title and date from Paulson., Date based on other work by Van der Gucht., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Modern Impression., and On page 52 in volume 1.
A bearded man in a hollow tree reaches out his hand toward a gentleman below. Another man enters the hollow tree at its base. An owl looks on from a branch above; around the base of the tree are lion, boar, cat, and donkey
Alternative Title:
Lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree
Description:
Title from letterpress title page on same sheet., Letterpress title page in red and black: The lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree / written by **********. Revis'd and compar'd with the first edition in 1705. London : Printed for E. Underhill, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXXVI. (Price six-pence)., Title page with woodcut image of an elephant walking a tight-rope., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above frontispiece: Imputed to Hogarth. See N 246. Mounted below: A lengthy ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand on separate sheet mounted beneath., and On page 83 in volume 1.
A bearded man in a hollow tree reaches out his hand toward a gentleman below. Another man enters the hollow tree at its base. An owl looks on from a branch above; around the base of the tree are lion, boar, cat, and donkey
Alternative Title:
Lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree
Description:
Title from letterpress title page on same sheet., Letterpress title page in red and black: The lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree / written by **********. Revis'd and compar'd with the first edition in 1705. London : Printed for E. Underhill, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXXVI. (Price six-pence)., Title page with woodcut image of an elephant walking a tight-rope., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above frontispiece: Imputed to Hogarth. See N 246. Mounted below: A lengthy ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand on separate sheet mounted beneath., and On page 83 in volume 1.