"A lady, seated on a settee smiling, her right hand rests on the arm of the settee, in her left is a black mask. On the cushion of the settee is a card "Admit Mrs M------to the Mask'd Ball". She is attractively dressed in the fashion of the period, with a muslin apron. Her coiffure is extravagantly large, with curls on her neck, and is covered by an elaborately frilled muslin cap. A rural landscape is seen through a window (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Lower margin trimmed to plate mark., Date erased from this impression., Date of imprint from British Museum catalogue., and Numbered in lower left of plate, 435.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by Carington Bowles ... No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Mahon, Gertrude, 1752-
Subject (Topic):
Actresses, Courtesans, Interiors, Sofas, Upholstery, Clothing & dress, and Hats
"Woodland scene with a naked young boy lying on a cloth in the foreground, guarded by dogs; to right, a herdsman and a woman, presumably Mithridates and his wife Cyno, surprised at the sight; to left, a curved stone frieze of soldiers, surmounted by a crown and a naked child holding up a shield; to right, a boy looking on from behind Mithridates' sheep; fields and cattle in the background at centre."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state
Description:
Title etched below image, above and on either side of etched Walpole arms bearing the motto "Fari quae sentiat.", Text below title: Six of the picture 2 f. 4 1/4 i. by 3 f. 6 1/2 i. long., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 151 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 1st, 1781, by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Cyrus, the Great, King of Persia, -530 B.C. or 529 B.C.
Two ladies driving in a gig, advancing diagonally towards the spectator from left to right, on the road from Hyde Park Corner to Knightsbridge. The gig, which has a crest on its panel, is drawn by a pair of ponies with long tails and manes. The lady driving is standing up, she wears the fashionable driving dress of the period, coat and waistcoat of masculine cut, full skirt without a hoop, large feathered hat; a bunch of seals hangs from her waistcoat. Her companion (right) sits demurely with folded arms; her dress is more feminine. The background shows the front of St. George's Hospital (left).
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mezzotint version of no. 5939 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, without the large board inscribed 'Saint Georges Hospital for Sick' or the inscription on the pedestal 'Tattersal'.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, map & printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Women, Horses, Clothing & dress, and Hats
"Triple three-quarter length portrait of the three Waldegrave sisters, seated beside one another at a small work-table; Lady Anna Horatia at right embroidering, with Lady Charlotte Maria at left, her head turned towards front, winding silk from skein which Lady Elizabeth Laura, centre, is holding; a curtain, pillars and trees behind them; after Reynolds (Mannings 1810); proof before letters, but with scratched production and publication detail."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies Waldegrave
Description:
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting, now in the National Gallery of Scotland (NG 2171), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill., Formerly laid in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., and A note in pencil on verso, possibly in Frank T. Sabin's hand, mentions "Fritz Reiss Sale, 2900 guineas at Christies", in reference to the sale of another impression of the print in 1923. A second note below, in the same hand but likely written at a different time, asserts that this is the "finest impression of the 1st state known, specially selected by Horace Walpole, for whom the original picture was painted, & inserted by him in his own enlarged & illustrated catalogue of the pictures at Strawberry Hill".
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1781, by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street, London
Subject (Name):
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess, 1760-1816,, Euston, Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, Lady, 1761-1808,, Seymour, Anne Horatia Waldegrave, Lady, 1762-1801,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Triple three-quarter length portrait of the three Waldegrave sisters, seated beside one another at a small work-table; Lady Anna Horatia at right embroidering, with Lady Charlotte Maria at left, her head turned towards front, winding silk from skein which Lady Elizabeth Laura, centre, is holding; a curtain, pillars and trees behind them; after Reynolds (Mannings 1810); proof before letters, but with scratched production and publication detail."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies Waldegrave
Description:
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting, now in the National Gallery of Scotland (NG 2171), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill., With Horace Walpole's manuscript annotations in brown ink in lower margin identifying the sitters and their relationships and a note: "The original picture at Strawberry Hill.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark: sheet 50.5 x 58.4 cm.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1781, by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street, London
Subject (Name):
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess, 1760-1816,, Euston, Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, Lady, 1761-1808,, Seymour, Anne Horatia Waldegrave, Lady, 1762-1801,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
