Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1759 and 1766]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 3 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1657); seated three-quarter length to front in garden seat with spaniel in her lap, looking to left, wearing shawl, pearls and rose at her breast, landscape behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3739., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint and plate number from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered in lower right corner: 106., Mounted on leaf numbered 23 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.
Publisher:
Printed for Rob. Sayer near Serjeants Inn Fleet Street
publish'd according to act of Parliament 20th Apr. 1768.
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 3 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1659); seated three-quarter length in profile to right holding her daughter, her arms outstretched, above her lap, head turned to face front; pillars and landscape behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Listed under Houston in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 24 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.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Full length portrait of Queen Caroline, holding a scepter; in a frame wrapped in ribbon on the top and bottom
Description:
Title from text in image., Plate from: Barnard, E. The new, comprehensive, impartial and complete history of England. London : A. Hogg, 1783., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Text above image: "Engraved for Barnard's New, complete & authentic history of England, a work universally acknowledged to be the best performance of the kind on account of its impartiality, accuracy, new improvements, superior elegance, &c.", and Text below image: "She was princess of Brandenburgh Anspach, married to George II while Prince of Wales, 1704, died of a mortification in her bowels Novr. 20, 1737, and was buried in Henry the VII Chapel, Westminster."
Publisher:
Alexander Hogg
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737,
"Portrait of Charles II as a boy, three-quarter length, standing, wearing collar, coat and sword, leaning on baton and holding hat; curtain in background to right, and view of the banqueting hall in Whitehall, trees and figures in distance to left"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Carolvs II D.G. Magnae Britannae ...
Description:
Title from text below image., Place of publication conjectured using printmaker's known place of activity., Text below title: "Hanc maiestatis suae effigiem ab Antonio van Dyke Equite sic prius depictam aqua forti aeri insculpsit. Humillimus cliens Wenceslaus Hollar, Boh: anno 1649.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text in title., and In paper frame: 382 x 258 mm.
"Portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, half-length, turned to right; in armour, with insignia of the Order of the Garter; in trompe l'oeil masonry border"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Date from British Museum online catalogue., Place of publication surmised from printmaker's place of activity., and Numbered in manuscript in lower left corner: "No 91."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788,
Title from text in image. and Plate from: Lavater, J. Essai sur la physiognomonie, destiné à faire connoître l'homme & à le faire aimer. La Haye : [imprimé chez Jacques van Karnebeek, 1781-]1803.
"Portrait of Lucius Cary, Second Viscount Falkland, nearly half-length to right, wearing lace-trimmed collar and slashed doublet; in a roundel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., After a painting by Sir Peter Lely. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Smollett, T. A complete history of England. London : Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher; and R. Baldwin, v. 7 (1759)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 149 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.
Publisher:
James Rivington and James Fletcher; and R. Baldwin
"Portrait, half length in oval, of Catherine of Braganza; long hair, pearl earrings, loose dress with jewels."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6859., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 27 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm. Imperfect sheet, with some slight loss of text., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Smith
Subject (Name):
Catherine, of Braganza, Queen, consort of Charles II, King of England, 1638-1705,
"Portrait of Louise de Savoie (but falsely named Catherine of Aragon), bust directed to right, wearing a dark head-dress; in an ornamental oval on a pedestal; a cartouche below showing Catherine of Aragon in front of the papal legate."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Catherine of Aragon
Description:
Title from text in image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "In the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole"--Below image., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., and Mounted on page 99 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:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton, Londini
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Louise, de Savoie, duchesse d'Angoulême, 1476-1531,, Catherine, of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
