"Benn's Club; group portrait of six aldermen around table in club, all seen seated whole-length and mostly to front, waiter standing at left polishing glass; l-r, Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Sir Henry Marshall, Edmond Ironside, Robert Alsop, Benn and John Blashford, a letter on the floor at his feet addressed to him at 'Bowcombe in the Isle of Wight', franked by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1231., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and Sitters' names in ms. beneath image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street & John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhil
A well-dressed sailor with a tricorne hat upon his head sits grinning at a table, looking directly at the viewer. He holds in his left had a ladle which is emersed in a full bowl. In his right he holds a glass
Description:
Title from the first of twelve lines of verse in three columns, below image: Fill up the mighty sparkling bowl that I a true and loyal soul may drink & sing without controul to support my pleasure ..., Publication date based location of J. Bowles and Son at Black Horse in Cornhill from 1752 to1763., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, J. Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Glassware, Sailors, and British
"Portrait of Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra dissolving the pearl after Reynolds (Mannings 612); half-length seated to left, face almost in profile, with chalice in her left hand and pearl in her right; wearing pearl-trimmed dress and coronet."--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.: 1849,0328.16., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 16 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:
Printed for Thos. Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard & Jno. Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Burford, Thomas, approximately 1710-approximately 1779, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1752 and 1764]
Call Number:
741.00.00.15+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A cleric taking tea with a young woman in morning dress, who sits on a sofa pouring the tea for him, while a maid stands on the left holding a piece of lace ready to help dress her mistress; after Lancret; from a set of the four Times of Day."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from item., Later state with altered imprint statement. For an earlier state from 1741 with the publication line "Sold by I. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, London," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.2718., Date of publication based on publisher's name in imprint; John Bowles partnered with his son Carington Bowles and traded as "John Bowles & Son" from approximately 1752 to 1764. See British Museum online catalogue., Four lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: This early visit to the beauteous fair ..., and One of four plates in an untitled series on the times of the day.
Publisher:
Sold by I. Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhil [sic]
Burford, Thomas, approximately 1710-approximately 1779, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1741]
Call Number:
741.00.00.18+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Five women bathing at night in a pool below rocks and trees, one sitting on the shore in the foreground, gesturing towards one standing in the water on the left, while three others are gathered around a small boat; after Lancret; from a set of the four Times of Day."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from item., Later state with altered imprint statement. For an earlier state from 1741 with the publication line "Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse, in Cornhill, London," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.2717., Date of publication based on publisher's name in imprint; John Bowles partnered with his son Carington Bowles and traded as "John Bowles & Son" from approximately 1752 to 1764. See British Museum online catalogue., Four lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: By the moon's friendly shade, i'th' limpid stream ..., and One of four plates in an untitled series on the times of the day.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhil [sic]