Portrait, half-length to right, wearing plain coat and frill
Alternative Title:
Edmund Burke Esquire
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date and publisher's name from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Place of publication from publisher's known place of activity.
Queen Caroline walks down a plank balanced between a jolly boat and the shore; she is assisted by her son-in-law Prince Leopald, dressed in black. A cheering crowd stands on the beach, waving their hats in the air, behind an officer who tips his hat at the Queen. Sailors push the boat onto the shingle while a ship called "Prince Leopold" (in reference to her son-in-law) is anchored in the distance
Description:
Title etched below image., Related to George Cruikshank vignette entitled "Queen Caroline landing at Dover" on the title page for: Nightingale, Joseph. Memoirs of Queen Caroline. London: J. Robins & Co. Albion Press, 1820., and Framed to 34 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
W.B. Walker
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Belgium.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,, and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
Subject (Topic):
Divorce, Arrivals & departures, British, Sailors, Ships, Queens, and Kings
"Portrait as a bearded, blind old man, three-quarter length seated directed to left, wearing a loose coat and soft round hat, arms on the arms of his chair, with a curtain above to left"--Catalogue of engraved British portraits
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published March 1st 1820 by C. Turner, 50 Warren St., Fitzroy Square
"Portrait of George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend, half-length, facing the viewer, wearing coat open over cuirass, both hands on his belt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Proof state, with the word "proof" etched beneath title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., "From a series of 313 small mezzotints after the paintings of Reynolds, produced by S.W. Reynolds in the years between 1820 and 1826 with the aim of forming a complete set of illustrations of all the known works by Reynolds"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1832,1211.20., and Mounted on board to 31 x 25 cm.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 28); standing whole-length to front in woodland, resting her left arm on the pedestal of a statue of the Comic Muse, head inclined to left, eyes to front, holding mask in her right hand; wearing floral gown, sash and her hair up."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Proof state, with the word "Proof" etched beneath title., "Samuel William Reynolds I issued a series of upwards of 350 small mezzotints after Sir Joshua Reynolds, from Bayswater, in four volumes. The engraved title-page is dated 1820, but many plates were issued a few years later. ... Some of these plates are stated to have been engraved by Samuel Cousins when an apprentice to S.W. Reynolds, according to Algernon Graves in his List of the works of Samuel Cousins (Whitman, p. 147)"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.8282., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 176 (leaf numbered '214' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Queen Caroline is seated in a carriage pulled by two white horses lead by a young page towards the right; she holds a walking-stick in her hand, sceptor-like over her shoulder and wears a fashionable hat and a small smile on her face as she looks out at the viewer. She is accompanied by two men in armor and wearing plummed helmets. The one on the far-side of the carriage holds a sign "The people and the Queens Guards". Another sign in the background on the right reads "It is better to put your trust in the Lord than confidence in princes." A crown is shown on the far right
Description:
Title etched below image. and Framed to 23 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W.B. Walker, 4 Fox & Knot Court, Cow Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,
"Half-length portrait as Cardinal Wolsey, three-quarter to the right, unrolling paper on his side, in habit, with medium-long blonde hair, Tower of London seen through arched window in the right background; open-letter state, publication line trimmed off."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0512.258., Artist from Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity.
"Portrait, three-quarter length, seated in an armchair, directed towards left, head in profile to left, his right elbow on a table covered with a tablecloth bearing coat of arms; his right hand supporting his chin; dressed in ermine-trimmed robes; in the background on the left, partial view of an organ; lettered state, after hair and beard shortened."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Portrait of King George III
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Publisher from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Verses etched below image: When the ear heard him, then it blessed him and when the eye saw him, it gave witness of him ... but his name liveth evermore., and Dedication etched at bottom of plate: To the British nation, this print of the father of his people is most respectually dedicated by Samuel W. Reynolds.
