"Portrait of Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, when Baron Loughborough; three-quarter length, seated directed to left, looking towards the viewer, his left elbow on the arm of his chair; mace on a table beside him at left; wearing chancellor's robes decorated with brocade, lace bands and long white wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 408 (leaf numbered '21' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published Dec. 7, 1812, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805,
Crombie, Benjamin W. (Benjamin William), 1803-1847, printmaker
Published / Created:
1841.
Call Number:
841.00.00.36
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portraits of John Jardine and Alexander Kidston, both whole-lengths, walking in street, in hats and coats, Jardine with spectacles and umbrella, Kidston in chequered waistcoat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Jardine
Description:
Title from text etched below each figure in image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Questionable publisher from that of the volume in which this plate was published., Plate also published in: Crombie, B. Modern Athenians: being portraits of eminent personages in the metropolis of Scotland. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, MDCCCLI [1851]., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of left half of image. Description based on impression in the British Museum., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.3 x 20.3 cm., and Imperfect; left half of print showing Alexander Kidston has been trimmed away, leaving only the right half showing John Jardine.
Publisher:
Hugh Paton?
Subject (Name):
Jardine, John, 1777-1850 and Kidston, Alexander, 1762-1850
"Portrait, three-quarters length seated directed to left, looking towards the viewer, left elbow on the arm of his chair, his hand on the edge of his robes, right hand on the chancerial burse, propped on his knee, with the mace on a table beside him, wearing robes decorated with gold brocade, lace bands and long white wig; a column and curtain behind to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., State from: Baudi di Vesme, A. Francesco Bartolozzi., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., For an earlier state with scratched production details only, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.1768., and Bound in opposite page 371 (leaf numbered '187' 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:
Published 1st Feby. 1800 by John Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805,
Plate [14] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Alfred the Great, bust-length, in an oval, slightly turned to the right, with curling hair and a long beard, a crown upon his head and dressed in a long cloak with ermine trim and tied at the throat over a mantle, various musical instruments, weapons and books below with drapery behind, an allegorical scene of the foundation of the University of Oxford below in a cartouche with Alfred gesturing to a plan held by a servant, Time and Peace holding his arm, the university appearing through clouds beyond, illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's "History of England" (1797)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Portrait of Alfred the Great
Description:
Title from text within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., "The portrait from the original picture in the University College at Oxford"--Below image, lower left., and Plate [14] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
"Portrait of Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland, bust in profile to left but looking at the viewer, wearing armour and sash; in an ornamental oval on a pedestal with a small scene showing a seascape; a putto seated next to an anchor and baton below"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Algernon Percy Earl of Northumberland
Description:
Title from text within image. and Text below image: "In the Collection of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Essex."
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue in the original publication as Mrs. Frances Abington and Lord Shelburne, later Marquis of Lansdowne
Alternative Title:
Sentimental lover
Description:
Title from item., Tête-à-tête probably from: The Oxford magazine, May 1792., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and country magazine, February 1777, (v. ix, p. 9) with different titles and plate numbers. The plate representing "The sentimental lover" was substantially reworked., and Variant state of No. 5411 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
White, George, approximately 1684-1732, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1722 and 1740]
Call Number:
Portraits R178 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date and place of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1950,0520.24., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's name.
A caricatured portrait of comedian John Liston, standing before the Theatre Royal. Leaning against a bollard is a placard advertising the play 'Fish out of Water' in which he was starring as 'Sam Savoury'.
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 25th, 1823, by G. Humphrey, 24, St. James's Stt. & 74, New-Bond St., London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Liston, John, 1776-1846 and Haymarket Theatre (London, England),
Title etched below images., Plates originally issued in: "Histories of the tete-a-tete annexed" in the Town and country magazine, xviii, 401., The two illustrations are numbered "No. XXII" and "No. XXIII in upper left above each oval, respectively., and Mounted to 20.5 x 28 cm., with pages extracted from the Town and country magazine, xviii, 401-402.
"Satire identifying George II with his electorate of Hanover, showing the Hanoverian landscape and his profile head in trompe l'oeil; the king is shown with a moustache in the style typical of a German soldier of the period. The landscape carries numbers referring to a key beneath suggesting that trade in Hanover is in a state of decay: 1. Herrenhausen; 2. Manufacture of Boars Heads (a ruined building); 3. Do. of Hams (a farm); 4. The Town of Hanover; 5. Manufacture of Linnen (a distant village); 6. Do. of Bonporenicole (a fortress; a reference to the lack of provisions for British troops in Germany, see BM Satire 2584); 7. Beggars Cambrick (another village); 8. Hunting House; 9. The (Army) Camp; 10. The River Leyne; 11. The Alder (a lake in the foreground where men are fishing)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Face of the country whereon Hanover stands, with a view of Herenhauseen and the seats of manufacture
Description:
Title from item., Publisher identified from address., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Five lines of text, including key to numbered objects within image, below image: Tho' this is not given as [the] most regular, [the] most varied, or [the] most noble prospect in the world ..., and Watermark: countermark IV.
