"Portrait of Lady Venetia Digby; half length looking to left; wearing lace-trimmed dress with ribbon tied to a rosette around waist; after miniature by I. Oliver."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Description:
Title from lettered state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no: 1920,1211.509., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: S. Harding del. ; A. Birrell sculp., Proof before letters., Publication information from imprint on lettered state: Pub. by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall, Jan. 1, 1802., Lettering on later state indicates that the print was made "from a miniature by Isacc Oliver at Strawberry-Hill.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 50 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., and Contemporary annotation in pencil below image: Venitia [sic] La. Digby.
Publisher:
S. Harding
Subject (Name):
Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait ... three quarter length standing directed to left, head turned to left shoulder, glancing towards the viewer, left hand on hip, holding a shepherd's staff at her side in right, wearing an gown with ermine trimmed bodice and cape, small ruff around her neck and a plume in her hair which is dressed up; after Ellys."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.5226., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Matted to 381 x 277 mm.
Title devised by curator., Self-portrait. See Thieme-Becker., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Satiric self-portraits -- Artists' self-portraits.
"Portrait of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey, three-quarter length, standing to right on a hill beside a tree, looking towards the viewer, leaning on a stick held in his left hand, holding a tricorn hat in the right; wearing uniform, sash over waistcoat, sword and queue wig; river below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print of similar composition
Description:
Title from manuscript note in ink on mounting sheet., Engraved after a painting by Nathanial Dance; see description of another print of similar composition in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1920,1211.410. For a discussion of various versions of the painting produced by the workshop of Nathanial Dance, see description for NPG 39 in the online catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery, London., Proof before letters?, Approximate date of publication supplied by cataloger., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 451., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 382 (leaf numbered '197' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774,
Subject (Topic):
Government officials, British, and Military uniforms
Picart, Charles, approximately 1780-approximately 1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1806?]
Call Number:
Portraits Sa121 no. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and artist from Catalogue of engraved British portraits. and Plate from: Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. London : Lackington, Allen, & Co., [1806].
Full length profile portrait of Sir Fletcher Norton, Baron Grantley facing left, wearing a sword, his right hand inside a long coat, his left under the coat-tail
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Numbered in upper left of plate: XVIII.
