Set of 12 engravings depicting Lady Emma Hamilton performing tableaux in Greek costume., Cover title, on engraved label: Lady Hamilton's attitudes., A re-engraved imitation of the original plates. The originals engraved by Tommaso Piroli. The title page of this edition has a long ess in the word permission, and there is no period after Hamilton., May have been issued 1802 or later. Various leaves of plates in both British Art Center copies have a duty stamp dated 1802. In BAC copy 1, the plates are mounted to paper watermarked 1799; in copy 2, the plates are mounted to paper watermarked 1802., Title page and plates printed on stained orange paper; each mounted on larger paper., Engraved throughout., BAC : British Art Center has 2 copies. Copy 1 in original wrappers, with engraved title label. Also bears bookseller's label on front cover: "Sold at Dunford's, Great Newport Street, London." Inscribed E. Saunders. Copy 2 also in original wrappers, with engraved title label. The title page for the London, Random & Stainbank, 1800 edition of this work (title: Lady Hamilton's attitudes. Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples) has been laid in. This title page was aquatinted by G. Shepheard after F. Rehberg., and Lacking cover title, with engraved label. Two prints with British customs stamps for tinted paper on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 12th, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street. Prints & drawings lent out on the plan of a circulating library
"A broadside on Duncan Macdonald, a Scottish acrobat; with an etching after a drawing by Louis Philippe Boitard showing Macdonald balancing on a wire, at his feet jack-boots, balancing on his right foot a wheel, a dish, a tray with 15 glasses, and a glass sphere, with his left index finger holding up a chair and a dog, balancing with his nose a sword, a pipe and two eggs, with his right hand playing a French horn and a trumpet, underneath the wire sword blades pointing upwards; with engraved title and inscription, and with letterpress text in two columns, and with a vertical segment of type ornament."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., With two columns of letterpress below plate mark., and "Price 6d."
The collection includes photographs of many of Edmond Quinn's sculptures, including portrait busts and statues of Cass Gilbert, Edwin Markham, Clayton Hamilton, Edwin Booth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry Clay, Brander Matthews, James Whistler, James Stephens, Padraic Colum, and Victor Herbert. The collection also includes one photograph of Quinn in his studio with Vicente Blasco Ibáñez; a pencil sketch of James Stephens; letters from Edwina Booth Grossman, Charles De Kay, Winthrop Ames, and others; a draft biography for Who's Who; and clippings documenting the reception of Quinn's work
Description:
American sculptor and painter Edmond Thomas Quinn was born December 20, 1868, in Philadelphia, to John and Rosina McLaughlin Quinn. He studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and under Jean-Antoine Injalbert in Paris. Major works include the statue of Edwin Booth as Hamlet in Gramercy Park, New York City, and the World War Memorial in New Rochelle, New York. He married Emily Bradley, of Newport, Rhode Island, in 1917 (she later married Shepherd Stephens). Quinn died in New York City in September, 1929, an apparent suicide by drowning. and In English.
"Portrait of Edmund Grindal, half length in an oval frame on a pedestal, long beard, wearing skull-cap, cloak, holding an open book; coat of arms below; frontispiece to his 'Life' by Strype (1710)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted in paper frame: 392 x 257 mm.
Volume 4, after page 232. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Full-length portrait of English historian Edward Gibbon in right profile
Alternative Title:
E. Gibbon
Description:
Title etched at bottom of plate., Facsimile of Gibbon's signature etched above title., Plate from: Dyer, C. Biographical sketches of the lives and characters of illustrious and eminent men. London : C.G. Dyer and H. Setchel and Son, 1819., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in The Morgan Library & Museum, accession no.: MA 10252., Window mounted to 22 x 14 cm., and Bound in after page 232 in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Williams, R.F. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries. London : Colburn & Co., 1852.
Publisher:
Pubd. by C. Dyer, Compton Street
Subject (Name):
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794, and Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794.
A portrait drawing of Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despencer, 1335 or 6-1375, wearing a bascinet helmet connected to a chainmail sheath around his neck. A tunic dyed in a red and gold latticework pattern is worn over a suit or platemail armor
Alternative Title:
Edward Lord Despenser 1375, Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, and Francis Dashwood, Baron le Despencer
Description:
Title from pencil inscription below image. Inscription continues: ... "Tewkesbury Cathedral." and For further information, consult library staff.
"Portrait of Edward Herbert of Cherbury; whole length, reclining on the ground in a forest, on his side, one arm propping up his head, a shield over the other arm; in the background; in background a horse saddled and in armour, and two soldiers standing by; after Oliver."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Frontispiece to: Herbert of Cherbury, E. The life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury. [Twickenham] : Strawberry-Hill, printed in the year MDCCLXIV [1764], Mounted on page 63 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 laid paper ; sheet 19.9 x 22.9 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, Baron, 1583-1648
Bannerman, Alexander, approximately 1730- printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1762]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Edward Pierce Senr. and Junr and Edward Pierce Senior and Junior
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., "Vol. 2, p. 134."--Upper right corner., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Mounted on page 134 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 : engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 16.7 x 11 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of volume and page numbering from upper right.
"Portrait of Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby; bust, looking to the right; with short beard, wearing cap; after Holbein."--British Museum online catalogue and "This is one of 75 etchings from John Chamberlaine's series of imitations of drawings 'Original Designs of the Most Celebrated Masters in his Majesty's Collection' (quarto edition, London, 1812; folio edition in 1793). The plates are executed in etching, aquatint (proof impressions before aquatint exist) and stipple, and made between 1790s and 1812 by Bartolozzi, Tomkins, Shepster, Pastorini, G.F. Lewis, G. Lewis and others. ... Most plates of this series are lettered 'In his Majesty's collection'."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Edward Stanley Earl of Derby
Description:
Title etched above image., "In his Majesty's collection"--Below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1948,0315.11.3., Mounted on page 122 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Novr. 1, 1793, by I. Chamberlaine
