"Portrait, just below half-length, standing directed to right, head turned slightly to right, eyes to front, left hand on hip, right hand holding staff pointing across himself to right, wearing uniform with sash and star, and tricorn over powdered wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: "Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.", Date of publication and publisher's name from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and In paper frame: 395 x 291 mm.
Publisher:
H. Overton
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765.
"Portrait after Catherine Read, full half length, sitting, directed to left, facing towards and looking to front, tuning a guitar, lace cap, collar."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,68.71., Charles Corbutt was a pseudonym used by Richard Purcell; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Plate numbered "157" in lower right corner., Imperfect; plate number "157" erased from this impression. Number supplied from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted on leaf numbered 45 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1746 and 1766]
Call Number:
793.00.00.71
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pretty young woman stands beneath a tree spinning wool from a spindle
Description:
Title engraved below image., Richard Purcell signed his works, among other names, as Charles Corbutt. See: Bénézit. Dictionaire critique et documentaire des peintres, ... [New ed.] , v. 11, page 302., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogure, registration no.: 1874,0613.2661., Imperfect; text "Plate 2" following title has been mostly erased from sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Lewis Walpole Library impression: Formerly dated 1793.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Spinning, Spinning apparatus, Wool, and Young adults
Ford, Michael, active 1746-1765, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[approximately 1746?]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait after Hogarth, full-length standing in a landscape, right hand on a stone ledge, hat and cane in his left, looking at and bowing slightly to the viewer with right foot advanced, wearing a suit with a high sheen, the coat open to reveal a long waistcoat decorated with flourishes
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable Gustavus Lord Viscount Boyne Baron of Stackallen and Gustavus, Viscount Boyne
Description:
Title etched below image., "Price 5s. 5d"--Following imprint statement., and Formerly on page 128 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Publisher:
Publish' d and sold for Mich. Ford painter and print seller on Cork Hill
Portrait of Mary Viscountess Andover, shown three-quarters length, standing, directed towards right, facing towards and looking to the front. She wears a low dress and is shown leaning on a pedestal with a panel carved image of a boy holding a sketch. On the pedestal are papers and a book; in her right hand she holds a crayon over her left arm, with a curtain and column behind on the left
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Mary Viscountess Andover
Description:
Title from text below image., "Price 2d."--Preceding imprint statement., Mounted on leaf numbered 2 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by Faber at [the] Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1746 and 1766?]
Call Number:
Hogarth 765.00.00.19 Box 112
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A copy in the same direction as Hogarth's subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair". The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of a young woman selling oranges and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another young woman selling oranges reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; on the lower edge, three musicians are protected from the audience by a row of spikes
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue., Charles Corbet is one of the pseudonyms of Richard Purcell., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Copy after no. 130 in R. Paulson. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.).
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1746 and 1766]
Call Number:
Hogarth 765.00.00.38+ Box 200
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The scene is the interior of a perpendicular Gothic church. The sand in the hourglass has run out, but the preacher continues to lecture, oblivious to the fact that his congregation has fallen asleep. The clerk below the pulpit eyes the bosom of the young woman sleeping in the lower right, fan in one hand and a book open to "... of Matrimony" about to slip from her fingers
Description:
Title from caption below image., Charles Corbet is one of the many pseudonyms of Richard Purcell. See Union List of Artists Names., Copy of No. 2285. See v. 3 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 140.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Lust, Preaching, Religion, Religious services, and Sleeping
Attribution to Williams on the print may be eroneous. See Chaloner Smith., Title devised by cataloger., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Six lines of verse below image: Routed, o'er hills the young adventurer flies ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788,
