"Portrait of a young woman as Youth three quarter length resting her right elbow on a pedestal, holding a sickle, smiling to right at a crone, Old Age, who takes her left hand with her right, a stick hanging from a string looped around her wrist, while gesturing with the other hand, with a basket of fruit in the foreground to left and a tree hung with ivy behind the old woman to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Virtumnus and Pomona
Description:
Title from text below image., "Mrs. Fleetwood" written in pencil below print by previous owner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 19 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.
"A young lady at confession; on the right, a monk leans on his elbow, right hand resting on a Bible, lecherously looking sideways at a young girl beside him, who stands holding a rosary, looking down sorrowfully with tears running down her cheek, she wears a veil on her head. On the ledge are various symbols of mortality, and a paper, lettered "...From fornication and all other deadly Sins Libera nos Domine! 'Tis better to Marry than burn...", to the far left stands an altar; after Millar; scratched-letter state."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from the Catalogue of the Society of Artists, 1771, no. 83., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Chapel of a Catholic church -- Religious rites -- Rosaries -- Allusion to sins., and Watermark.
Page 289. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an ugly old woman dressed in richly decorated black clothes, leering at a macaroni wearing a wig with an enormous looped queue, one hand on his shoulder while he lays one hand on his breast and smiles admiringly at her; a black page standing behind the old woman and a couple smiling at them as they pass by, in the background to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Pshaw, theres no trusting you macaronies
Description:
Title from later state., Additional title from note below image, written in pencil and brown ink: Pshaw, theres no trusting you macaronies., Printmaker from statement of responsibility on later state: Wilson delt. & fecit., Early state, with scratched-letter publication statement only. For a later state with the title "A real-scene on the parade at Bath" and other lettering in lower margin, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.363., Publisher from imprint on later state: London, Publish'd March 21st, 1772, by J. Parker, No. 82, Cornhill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Female costume, 1772 -- Male headdresses., Folded to 30.6 x 24.5 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 289 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Henry Parker
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England),
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Dandies, British, Wigs, Older people, Courtship, Couples, and Servants
Volume 1, page 23. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, bust, in a mock oval frame, in profile to right, wearing a lacy cravat and a wig with a curling queue; after Gardner; scratched-letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham
Description:
Title from later state., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 23 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and Name of the sitter written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 29th, 1772, by V. Green, Salisbury Street, Strand
Portrait thought to be of Miss Kettle (see Bromley's Catalogue of engraved British portraits); seated three-quarter length to front playing guitar, her hair short, wall and foliage behind. Thought to be Mrs. Cantrell, who was a singer in Marylebone Gardens (see J.C. Smith).
Description:
Title and state from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1867,0413.576., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 21 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.
"Whole-length figures, standing by a tree outdoors, King, on the right, turned to Mrs. Baddeley, with his hands outstretched at his sides and face expressive; she, holding a kerchief in her right hand, left hand raised in surprise, figure in the background walking to the front."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.891., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Characters from the play "The Clandestine Marriage".
Publisher:
Publish'd November 1st, 1772 by R. Sayer, No. 53, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
King, Thomas, 1730-1805, and Baddeley, Sophia, 1745?-1786,
"The actress Sophia Baddeley looking to left in oval, with pearls round her neck and in her hair; scratched letter proof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, state, and publication information from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits. See also: British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3010., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 9 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.
"Portrait of a lady, bust in profile to right, hair dressed above her head with a striped cloth, and cape with a ruffle-trimmed hood, in a mock oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Smith, J.C. British Mezzotinto portraits, also see British Museum online catalogue., Place of publication taken from end of publication statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 3, no. 23, p. 1250., Mounted on leaf numbered 17 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:
Publish'd 20th. Jany. 1772. by H. Bryer and mezzotint
