In the garden of Bagnigge Wells surrounded by hedges, trees, and a fountain, a well dressed lady is plucking a rose, as another woman behind her looks on. The roof of the circular Temple is visible on the left. By the 1770s, the Bagnigge Wells resort was a notorious meeting place for amorous dalliance
Alternative Title:
No resisting temptation
Description:
Title from item., Numbered in plate: 341., Date estimated from Britsh Museum catalogue, v.5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", and Publication date erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
In an oval frame, a young woman facing left, wears a wide-brimmed hat trimmed with flowers, a necklace of several strands of beads, and a scarf loosely draped around her shoulder
Description:
Title from item. and Scratch-letter state before inscription.
Publisher:
Published 30 of July 1776, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
A satire on the "macaroni' hairstyles for women: a man seated on a bench (left) in a park stares at two women with fashionable macaroni hair pieces as they walk past him, left to right. The two women are accompanied by a lap-dog and a black page boy
Alternative Title:
Female fashionable follies
Description:
Title etched below image., First published with the title: The fashionable dresses for the year 1776., Date erased from this impression. Date from British Museum catalogue., and In the lower left corner of the print: No. 345.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Benches, Boys, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, and Servants
"A lady stands at her dressing-table (right), her hair in an enormous pyramid decorated with feathers torn from a peacock, an ostrich and a cock. A young girl wearing a hat holds the peacock by a wing; another wearing a cap tugs hard at one of its tail feathers (which are very unlike peacock's feathers). An ostrich (left), which has lost most of its tail feathers, is about to pluck out those which ornament the lady's hair. A cock stands in the foreground (right), having lost almost all its tail feathers, many of which lie on the floor. A black servant wearing a turban stands on his mistress's right, handing feathers from a number which he holds in his left hand. The lady, who faces three-quarter to the right, is elaborately dressed in the fashion of the day. Her pyramid of hair is decorated with lappets of lace and festoons of jewels as well as with feathers. She wears large earrings, a necklace with a cross, her bodice is cut very low, and her elbow sleeves have lace ruffles. A pannelled wall forms the background."--British Museum online catalog
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Printmaker identified as Philip Dawe by Dorothy George. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
In a rural landscape with trees in the right rear of the print, Death in the form of a skeleton stand with his scythe and reaches down to touch an elderly white-bearded woodman who has fallen in the grass. The latter points to the burden of sticks which he has dropped, his axe lying on the ground as well
Description:
Title etched between two columns of verse in six lines each below image., Numbered in plate '339' in lower left corner., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix: Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles., Verse in plate based on Aesopian fable: A poor old woodman trudg'd along the road bending beneath the double load of faggots and of age. Alas! he cry'd. is there like me a wretch beside in all the country round? Quite spent and almost out of breath, he throws his burden on the ground, bemoand his fate and call'd on Death. Come Death, o come, and end my pain. Death came, and ask'd, what would you have of me? Only that you would be so kind said he, to help me with my bundle up again., and Publication date erased from print.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, publish'd as the act directs
"Portrait, head and shoulders, of an old man with loose, curling hair to his shoulders, and a plain white collar, three-quarter to right, looking down to centre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 1 f. 3 i. by 1 f. 6 i. in height., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate 30 in the first volume of: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788., and On same sheet: Innocent the Tenth.
Publisher:
Published Sepr. 30th, 1776, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Full length profile portrait facing left of Elizabeth Chudleigh during her trial for bigamy. She wears a black dress with a hood and holds papers in each hand. An upholstered armchair is behind her
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from Chaloner-Smith., and Print trimmed into plate mark, repairs to lower corners, inlaid, folded.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Bigamy, Trials (Bigamy), Clothing & dress, and Chairs
"A young girl shown head and shoulders, facing front with her hands clasped at her breast, and looking tearfully away to left, hair loose and wearing a poor loose gown and cloak; in an oval frame; after Josiah Boydell."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Child of sorrow
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
"Almost whole-length portrait of Anne Wharton, seated in a wooded landscape, head directed three-quarters to left but looking to front, pointing to right with her left arm across her body, decolleté with hair loose over her right shoulder; coat of arms at bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication transposed from end of publication statements., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 41 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:
Published Sepr. 29th 1776 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside
"Portrait of Henrietta Musgrave, later Morris, after Reynolds (Mannings 1296); half-length to left within oval frame, resting on her left arm, wearing loose, ermine-trimmed robes and pearls and feathers in her hair; published state. 1776."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed close to plate mark., and "Oullette Albertina" stamped in black ink small circle on verso.
Publisher:
Published July 16th, 1776 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside London
