Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 1 f. 9 1/2 i. by 2 f. 3 1/2 i. in height., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate LXI from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: Saint John the Evangelist.
Publisher:
Published Sepr. 1st, 1787, by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 1 1/2 i. by 4 f. 4 1/2 i. long., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate VIII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: Hercules & Omphale.
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Published May 1st, 1779, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Title from captions in Latin and English below image., Text below Latin title: E tabula Guidonis Reni, 9 pedes et 6 digitos alta 7 pedes lata in aedibus regiis Kensingtonii conservata., Text below English title: From the painting of Guido Reni, 9 feet 6 inches high by 7 feet wide, in the Royal Palace of Kensington., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cupid, Graces, The, in art, Venus, Gods, and Mythology
"In a landscape, Venus, naked, lying on a drapery; behind her, a tree; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, on either side of etched Walpole arms bearing the motto "Fari quae sentiat.", Text below title: The same size as the picture., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 138 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 1st, 1785, by John Boydell, engraver, in Cheapside, London
"In a landscape, Venus, naked, lying on a drapery; behind her, a tree; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, on either side of etched Walpole arms bearing the motto "Fari quae sentiat.", Text below title: The same size as the picture., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 173 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., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching in brown ink on laid paper ; oval image 24 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 28.9 x 36.4 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 1st, 1785, by John Boydell, engraver, in Cheapside, London
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 5 1/2 i. by 6 1/2 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XXXI from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: The Holy Family.
Publisher:
Publish'd Aug. 1st, 1781, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"Venus, reclining on bed, nude apart from a sheet draped over her waist, wearing bracelets on each hand, embraces a naked infant (probably Cupid); a horned satyr drawing back a curtain behind her, and to the right a maidservant wearing scarf on head and plain loose dress with one breast partially bared; pillar in background to right, and landscape with trees and mountains in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Who this can view yet feel no kindling fire, need keep no Lent to mortify desire
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1876,1111.14., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., Mounted on page 162 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., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 20.4 x 28.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Venus, reclining on bed, nude apart from a sheet draped over her waist, wearing bracelets on each hand, embraces a naked infant (probably Cupid); a horned satyr drawing back a curtain behind her, and to the right a maidservant wearing scarf on head and plain loose dress with one breast partially bared; pillar in background to right, and landscape with trees and mountains in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Who this can view yet feel no kindling fire, need keep no Lent to mortify desire
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1876,1111.14., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., Mounted on page 128 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 20.2 x 28.2 cm., Mounted on wove paper backing., and Imperfect; rectangular piece (7 x 80 mm) clipped from bottom edge of sheet, resulting in loss of title.
Interior of a surgery: a surgeon sits on a barrel and operates on the lower left leg of a peasant man who is writhing in pain. An old woman stands behind them with her arm in a sling. Shelves are on the walls in the background; a stuffed animal hangs from the ceiling
Description:
Title devised by curator., Possibly after a painting by Brouwer, first owned by Sir Robert Walpole and subsequently by Horace Walpole, that was kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. See: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842], page 132., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 201 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., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 30.7 x 26.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., and For further information, consult library staff.
