"Portrait of Miss Osborne; short half-length standing to left, pointing upwards to left and glancing down to right, wearing a loose gown with a strap diagonally across her breast, her hair dressed up with a tiara and scarf; tree behind to left; in an oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.3007., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 38 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff., and "Miss Osborne" written in pencil below print on mounting leaf, in a later hand.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 467); whole-length standing turned slightly to right, facing and eyes to left, wearing in robes, his left hand on his hip and his right holding a roll of paper; table with papers and inkstand to right, staff to left; landscape through window behind"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Mounted to 667 x 482 mm.; annotated in upper right corner "57."
Publisher:
Published Jan. 1st 1769 by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
"Group portrait in a study around a table; William Beckford seated to left holding a scroll ..., with John Sawbridge sitting opposite him, leaning with his elbows on a book with head on right hand, and James Townsend standing between them, looking down to right, left elbow resting on the back of Sawbridge's chair, the last two wearing fur-trimmed cloak and chains of office."--British Museum online catalogue, description of lettered state
Description:
Title, printmaker, and artist from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Proof before letters; lettering below image on published state begins: Willm. Beckford Esqr. Member of Parliament for the City of London ..., Publication information based on that of lettered state. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.2582., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Below image are pencil annotations, perhaps in a contemporary hand, that identify the three figures in the portrait and identify Houston as the printmaker.
Publisher:
John Smith and Robert Sayer
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770,, Townsend, James, -1787,, and Sawbridge, John, 1732?-1795,