Portrait after Reynolds; three-quarter length to front, head turned in three-quarter profile to left, her left arm leaning resting on her robes, right hand holding her left wrist; clouds and pillar behind.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1833,0515.15., Mounted on leaf numbered 43 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.
"The head of Sheridan in a similar position to that of Fox in British Museum Satires No. 8450, scowling and deeply furrowed, looking to the left. Sheridan is compared with the shifty, self-seeking Barère. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 8440."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Sayers in the British Museum catalogue., One of eight satirical portraits in the series "Illustrious heads designed for a new history of republicanism ..."; see British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "2" in upper right corner., 1 print : soft-ground etching on wove paper ; plate mark 21.4 x 17.7 cm, on sheet 23.6 x 19.8 cm., Perhaps a later impression from a worn plate; plate number is lightly printed and barely visible., and Mounted on leaf 73 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. 12th May 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 and Barère, B. 1755-1841. (Bertrand),
"The head of Sheridan in a similar position to that of Fox in British Museum Satires No. 8450, scowling and deeply furrowed, looking to the left. Sheridan is compared with the shifty, self-seeking Barère. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 8440."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Sayers in the British Museum catalogue., One of eight satirical portraits in the series "Illustrious heads designed for a new history of republicanism ..."; see British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "2" in upper right corner., and Mounted to 37 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Publd. 12th May 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 and Barère, B. 1755-1841. (Bertrand),
"The head of Sheridan in a similar position to that of Fox in British Museum Satires No. 8450, scowling and deeply furrowed, looking to the left. Sheridan is compared with the shifty, self-seeking Barère. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 8440."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Sayers in the British Museum catalogue., One of eight satirical portraits in the series "Illustrious heads designed for a new history of republicanism ..."; see British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "2" in upper right corner., and Mounted on page 91 with one other print.
Publisher:
Publd. 12th May 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 and Barère, B. 1755-1841. (Bertrand),
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1267); almost half-length to right within oval frame, eyes to front, wearing dress with fringes, bow, pearls and sash, pearls in her hair; published state after title altered to 'Countess'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 31 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
"Portrait of Benjamin Hoadly, bust-length, in an oval, in profile to the right, dressed in a chimere over his rochet with a powdered bob-wig on his head and bands about his neck with his Garter badge hanging at his chest."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Benjamin Hoadly, D.D.
Description:
Title from text on pedestal within image., After a wax model by Isaac Gosset that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Text above image: Engraved for the Universal magazine., Mounted on page 66 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 14.4 x 9.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge and text above image from top edge.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Hinton, at the King's Arms in Pater Noster Row
Subject (Name):
Hoadly, Benjamin, 1676-1761 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Ben Jonson, bust seen in profile to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a draped coat; in an ornamental oval decorated with roses and laurel; below a young satyr holding a sceptre with a fool's head; books and a theatrical mask in lower right; state with publisher's address."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ben Jonson
Description:
Title from text in image., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., "In the collection of Dr. Mead"--Below image. The note refers to the miniature by Oliver from which this engraving was made., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 28 (leaf numbered '86' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637,, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637., and Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
Benedictus XIV de Lambertinis Bononiensis : Pontifex Maximus creatus die XVII Augusti 1740
Description:
Title engraved in image., Place of publication based on printmaker's country of residence; date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 59 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.
"Half length portrait of an elderly clergyman in profile to the right with a long sharp nose and receding chin."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and questionable year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sitter identified as Benjamin Buckler (1718-1780), fellow of All Souls, Oxford, where there is a portrait of him ascribed to Gainsborough. See British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.