Title from accompanying List of plates published by Boydell., Alternative title etched below image., "From the original drawing, in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire.", "No. 115"--Lower left corner., Plate published in: Liber veritatis, or, A collection of two hundred prints / engraved by Richard Earlom from the original drawings owned by the Duke of Devonshire. London: Boydell and Co., 1777., The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., See Object file for copy of the correspondence between E. Manwaring and W.S. Lewis., and Probably one of the set owned by Horace Walpole and later dispersed. See A.T. Hazen, Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no 3669.
Publisher:
Published Septr 1st. 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682
Subject (Topic):
Views, Colosseum (Rome, Italy), and Triumphal arches
Title from caption below image., Text in lower left corner of plate: Size of the picture, 4 f. 3 i. by 7 f. 3 i. in height., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., and Plate III from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1.
Publisher:
Published Mar. 25th, 1775, by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"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.
Title from caption below image., Text in lower left corner of plate: Size of the picture, 4 f. 9 1/2 i. by 6 f. 4 3/4 i. in height., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XXIV from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1., and Mounted to 55 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1st, 1775, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1904); as a very young child seen whole-length within rectangular frame, lying on ground embracing poodle, facing front, wearing light dress and cap; landscape behind; before title changed."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved on smaller plate printed below larger plate with image., Statements of responsibility engraved along top edge of smaller plate; additional artist and printmaker statements engraved along bottom edge of image plate: Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; engraved by Thos. Watson., State from Russell., Imprint statement engraved along bottom edge of image plate., Print consists of two plates printed one above the other. The larger, upper plate contains the image; the smaller, lower plate contains only text., Sheet trimmed to plate marks., Mounted on page 90 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.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1775, for W. Shropshire, No. 158 & T. Watson, No. 142 New Bond Street
"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.
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.
