"Despair, an old man, sits in ragged clothing on the ground with instruments of suicide at his left hand, the corpse of Sir Terwin beside him and a skeleton on the rocks behind; to the left the Red Cross Knight holds a dagger to his own neck as Una rushes to stop him, a donkey beside her; after West (Staley 220)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image. and For an earlier state with scratched lettering, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1838,0425.63. See also: Whitman, A. British mezzotinters: Valentine Green, 190.
Publisher:
Published June 1st, 1775, by John Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, London
Nocturnal scene of a churchyard, with a raven perched in a large tree. Below him a sexton with his shovel points towards the left, while glancing back towards a corpulent clergyman, a lawyer holding a candelabra and a shield depicting skull and bones, and a doctor with his gold-headed cane and vial
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered in plate: 326., Bottom edge of image retouched in the plate with drypoint., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, volume 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Verse in plate: Near the church-yard grim Death's purveyors see, with emblems fit a close connected three! One shows a phial, and the other two look their assent, as if they'd say t'will do: The sexton pleas'd stands ready to attend, points to the grave and eyes his greatest friend. Th'ill boding raven seems to croak aloud, swallow the dose, and that bespeaks your shroud., and Publication date erased from this copy of the print.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1437); half-length looking to right wearing clerical bands and a cap, holding a book under his left arm"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State before imprint added., and Imprint from final state from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1840,0808.92.
Title assigned by cataloger., Publication date estimated from earliest year sitter might be of age for portrait., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of text.
Half length portrait to the right, in an oval, of a man wearing a long curled wig and a cravat; tentatively identified as Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker attribution and sitter's identity from note in pencil on verso: Lord Townshend, engravd. by Josiah Boydell., Probably a proof state; no lettering present, and lower margin not cleaned., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted to 36 x 28 cm.
"Portrait seated whole-length to right on couch beside pillar, upper body turned to left holding open portfolio on table at left beside papers and vase, head turned to face right; wearing loose, flowing robe and turban."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from text on later states., First (proof?) state of the plate, before sitter's name and publication line added below image. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Publication information based on first published state (second state overall) bearing the imprint statement "Publish'd according to act of Parliament March 15th, 1775, by James Watson, No. 64 Little Queen Ann Street & B. Clowes, engraver, Gutter Lane, Cheapside, London." See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., For second published state (third state overall) with altered imprint statement, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0712.644., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Tipped in at page 68 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
A man sitting in an armchair with his gouty foot on a footstool in front of him, looking up in pain at a maidservant who pours water from a kettle on the leg, distracted by a page standing behind the chair, another woman drinks beside the door in the background on the right, and a little boy takes something from the table on the left; after Penny; scratched-letter state
Description:
Title from published state., Scratch-letter proof; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, no. 158, page 598., and Companion print to: The virtuous comforted by sympathy and attention.
Publisher:
Publised [sic] by Messrs Sayer and Bennet, Fleet Street
Title, printmaker, artist, publisher, and publication date from Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum., Date of publication from printmaker's known place of activity., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.