Bust-length portrait in profile to right of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer in field uniform. Facsimile signature below image. Image based on a photographic portrait of Custer in half-length, seated pose
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BEIN BrSides Zc10 865ga copy 1: On sheet 30.3 x 24.0 cm., BEIN BrSides Zc10 865ga copy 2: On sheet 30.1 x 24.3 cm., BEIN BrSides Zc10 865ga copy 3: On sheet 30.5 x 23.9 cm., and Engraving based on Matthew Brady studio photograph.
Bust-length portrait in profile to right of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer in field uniform. Facsimile signature below image. Image based on a photographic portrait of Custer in half-length, seated pose
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BEIN BrSides Zc10 865ga copy 1: On sheet 30.3 x 24.0 cm., BEIN BrSides Zc10 865ga copy 2: On sheet 30.1 x 24.3 cm., BEIN BrSides Zc10 865ga copy 3: On sheet 30.5 x 23.9 cm., and Engraving based on Matthew Brady studio photograph.
"Portrait of Galfridus Walpole, half length to the left, looking at the viewer, wearing large long wig; in oval; with facsimile of signature."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Publication date from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Coxe, W. Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of second line of title from bottom edge. Complete title supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 142 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:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Galfridus, 1683-1726 and Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757
Portrait of David Garrick, seated at a desk, with his wife standing behind him, reaching to grasp the pen that he is holding in his right hand and "Portrait of David Garrick, three-quarter length, seated at a writing table, to the left, looking at viewer, his head supported by right hand, which also holds a quill, his right elbow resting on table; pointing down to the right with left hand; behind him his wife stands, reaching over the back of the chair towards the desk with her right hand, looking down towards Garrick."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Plate from: The art-journal. [London] : [George Virtue], February 1855, opposite page 42., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression at the Massachusetts Historical Society, call no.: Special Colls. Waterston autograph vol. 2., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 613 (leaf numbered '47' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published for the proprietors
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779,, Garrick, Eva Maria, 1724-1822,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779., and Garrick, Eva Maria, 1724-1822.
"Portrait of James Edward Oglethorpe, full-length, in profile to the left, seated on a stool with his legs crossed at the sale of Dr. Johnson's books, with a walking stick in his hand, reading a book, with a tricorne over his long curling wig, dressed in an elegant frockcoat and breeches, a sword at his waist."--British Museum online catalogue and Full-length portrait of James Oglethorpe, English general and philanthropist, seated, in left profile
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Title etched below image., Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "Publishd. Septr. 9, 1785, by I. Cary, No. 188, Strand", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1887,0406.58., Date of publication inferred from 1823 watermark., Picture caption, printed under image: Died 30th June 1785 Aged 102 said to be the oldest General in Europe - Sketch'd from life at the sale of Dr. Johnsons books Feby. 18, 1785 where the Genl. was reading a book he had purchas'd without spectacles - In 1706 he had an Ensigns commission in the Guards & remember'd to have shot snipes in Conduit mead where Conduit Street now stands., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 368., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 21.5 x 16.5, on sheet 27 x 20.8 cm., Window mounted to 39 x 28 cm., and Bound in as page 42 in volume 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world. London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Oglethorpe, James, 1696-1785,
Subject (Topic):
Stools, Staffs (Sticks), Books, Reading, and Daggers & swords
Print shows General Winfield Scott upon victory over Mexican forces at Contreras, Mexico, in August 1847; Scott on a light-colored horse, with plumed tricorn hat held high, center; with soldiers, some fallen, some bandaged, most standing and waving caps; cannon, left
Alternative Title:
General Scott at Contreras
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BEIN WA Prints 324: On sheet 18.9 x 29.0 cm., BEIN WA Prints 325: On sheet 21.3 x 25.9 cm., Title from caption below image., and Another state issued with imprint letters below caption "Virtue, Emmins & Co., publishers, N.Y." and below that statement "Entered according to act of Congress AD 1859 by John Emmins in the clerk's office of the United States for the Southern District of New York" issued in Tomes, Robert. Battles of America by land and sea (New York: Virtue & company, 1861), volume 3, plate facing page 499.
