"Portrait seated almost whole-length slightly to left and reading at table, head turned to face right; wearing dark suit, frill and ruffles and his hair powdered and curled."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of similar composition
Description:
Title from facsimile signature below image. and Printmaker, artist, imprint, and publication date from Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Originally pub. Leipzig, 1720, with title: Historische und geographische Beschreibung ... Cf. Sabin no. 32104. and Portrait of John Law, and folded map inserted at front. Map has title: Louisiana am Fluss Missisippi [!]; from the German translation of John Lawson's Carolina, Hamburg, 1712? - Cf. Winsor, The Kohl collection, p. 112.
Publisher:
J.F. Gleditschens seel. sohn,
Subject (Geographic):
Louisiana--History--To 1803 and Mississippi River Valley--Description and travel
Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Griffiths, Julia, d. 1895 Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Published / Created:
1854
Call Number:
Za Em34 854
Image Count:
1
Description:
"In commending this, the second volume of "The autographs for freedom," ... "The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society" would congratulate themselves and the friends of freedom generally on the progress made ... by the cause to which the book is devoted"--Preface. 'Second volume' probably refers to an 1853 publication of the same title, also edited under the auspices of The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, but published by J.P. Jewett in Boston. The contents of each work are unique, although some of the authors are the same., "On freedom" [poem] by R.W. Emerson, p. [235]-236; "A day ... at Playford Hall," by H.B. Stowe, p. [277]-303., "Stereotyped by Thomas B. Smith, 216 William St., N.Y."--Title page verso., A collection of signed articles, poems, etc., by men and women prominent in the anti-slavery movement. Most of the signatures are in facsimile., and Edited "on behalf of the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society"--P. vi.
Publisher:
Alden, Beardsley & Co. ; and Wanzer, Beardsley & Co.,
Subject (Name):
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subject (Topic):
Antislavery movements--United States and Slavery--United States
Portrait of Bartolomeo Bergami, bust-length, turned slightly to the right; wearing a coat with a medal on the left lapel, a shirt with a high collar, and a cravat
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production from dealer's description., and For a lithograph by Godefroy Engelmann of a nearly identical portrait, see: National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D13721.
"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
Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., Note on verso continues: " ... she married first a Florentine, for wch. his father disenherited him, and being reduced, she maintained herself and husband by washing linnen ...", One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin.
Subject (Name):
Bianca, Grand-Duchess, consort of Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1548-1587 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
