A portrait of the Countess of Aylesford, shown standing, almost full-length, directed left with her left arm on the plinth of a column. 'Countess of Aylesford' is engraved on the base. After a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Description:
Title engraved on plinth in image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Ms. notes added in Horace Walpole's hand.
Publisher:
Published Janry. 1st, 1783, by V. Green, No. 29 Newman Street, Oxford Street, London
A young woman (Sally) works at her spinning-wheel in front of a farm building. With her left hand, she pushes away an elegantly clad young man (Squire) who is bowing to her. Next to his feet, a mother hen and chickens drink from a flat bowl; in the background across the road is a church
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in lowere left corner: '485'., Below the title are four verses "From the favourite Scotch Air in the Overture to Thomas and Sally," beginning with "Till bolder grown so close he press'd ...", Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark and publication date erased., No. 3 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., and 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; plate mark 35.4 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 27.4 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A young woman (Sally) works at her spinning-wheel in front of a farm building. With her left hand, she pushes away an elegantly clad young man (Squire) who is bowing to her. Next to his feet, a mother hen and chickens drink from a flat bowl; in the background across the road is a church
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in lowere left corner: '485'., Below the title are four verses "From the favourite Scotch Air in the Overture to Thomas and Sally," beginning with "Till bolder grown so close he press'd ...", and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark and publication date erased.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A fashionably dressed young woman with a lace-bordered apron and shawl stands by the seashore. Leaning with her left elbow on the grassy top of a rock, she appears to be crying. Behind her is a departing ship
Description:
Title from item., Publication date erased from the plate. Date conjectured from the plate number., Plate numbered 491., and Below the title are four verses "From the favourite Song of the Maiden's Complaint."
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A fashionably dressed young woman holding a basket on her left arm watches pensively a hen, a rooster, and four chickens feeding at her feet in front of a small building with clapboard walls and an overhang above a Dutch door, probably a chicken coop. To her left, in the background, is a vast lawn bordered by flowers near the coop and by large trees, with a cottage behind, at the other end. The verse printed on both side of the title below the design begins, "To Operas, Masquerades, and Plays, / This Cottage Maid's a Stranger;"
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, map and printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Farm life, Poultry houses, Chickens, Baskets, and Clothing & dress
"View of Copenhagen House, from the gardens; two slim and one stout man smoking a pipe stand in foreground, a horse to their left, two further men walk away from tavern to right, looking suspiciously towards the other men, behind them men play a game of skittles; fields in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Southeast view of Copenhagen House
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., For a nearly identical print, probably from a different plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1927,1126.1.5.9., and Leaf 64 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, map and printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Islington (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Taverns (Inns), Pipes (Smoking), and Games
A fashionably dressed young woman sits on the ground near a pond making a wreath (or a chaplet). Her head is covered with a pleated cap, its cover lies by her feet. In the background, her young admirer in fashionable riding clothes watches her with adoration from behind the fence
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '509'., Illustration to a song from Arne's adaptation of Milton's Comus (1738)., and Below the title are four verses from the song The lass with a delicate air.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
