"A young woman standing at an altar where incense is burning, holding a chalice in her left hand, gesturing and looking up to left, in a landscape with a temple on a hill to right, in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Calabi and de Vesme catalogue., Publication information from impression in the British Museum with imprint. See British Museum online cat., registration number: 1868,0808.2810., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs Octr. 1st. 1783, by A. Torre, No. 44 Market Lane
"Portrait after Lawrence (Garlick 836); standing three-quarter length slightly to left, looking to right, his arm leaning on a high table at right with a letter in his hand, desk behind at left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and artist from Catalogue of engraved British portraits. and Date of publication from death date of printmaker, and place of publication surmised from his place of activity.
Title from lettered state in the British Museum., Artist, printmaker, and publication information from description of a later state in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2006,U.916., State lacking text but having a coat of arms (lacking motto) etched below image., Plate V 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: Sir Thomas Gresham.
Title supplied by cataloger., Place of publication from sitter's known place of activity., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 346); three-quarter length, seated to left at table with plans, eyes to front, holding crayon towards his mouth, curtain and view of Somerset House behind; proof before letters and some reworking, but with scratched production and publication detail."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from from the British Museum online catalogue, registration numbers: 1902,1011.2277.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st 1780, by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street
Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1766]
Call Number:
Drawer 769.00.00.82
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Saint Martin dividing his cloak
Description:
Title, printmaker, and publication information from lettered state in the British Museum., After a painting by Anthony van Dyck. Artist statement on lettered state makes a false attribution to Rubens; see British Museum online cat., registration number: 1870,0625.597., Plate no. 26 from: A collection of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in England. London: [J. Boydell, 1769], v. 1., and Watermark.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 477); standing three-quarter length slightly to left with her hands held together, eyes to front, wearing loose robe over dress with sash around waist, locket on ribbon and her hair up, but with two long plaits hanging over her shoulders."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Honourable Mrs. Damer
Description:
Title from text on later state., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Scratched-letter state; for a later state with the title "The Honble. Mrs. Damer" and the imprint "Publish'd March 1st, 1774, by J.R. Smith, No. 4 Exeter Court, Strand," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.4966., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 86 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., With contemporary pencil annotation in lower margin: Mrs. Damer., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Libyan Sibyl; facing front, seated, with a turban on head, holding a book open with her left hand, resting her right elbow on a closed book on a table, the book lettered with "Sibilla Libia"; after Guercino."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. and Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration number: S,5.55.
Title from Calabi and de Vesme catalogue., Artist, printmaker and publication information from variant state described in the Calabi and de Vesme catalogue with imprint: London, Jany. 1, 1782, Pubd. for the proprietors by Colnaghi & Co. ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from Calabi and de Vesme catalogue., Artist, printmaker and publication information from later state described in the Calabi and de Vesme catalogue with imprint: London, Publish'd August 2, 1794, by W. Dickinson., and Ms. annotations in pencil at bottom of plate.
