A comic map of Great Britain: an old woman is shown in profile, facing to the left, and seated on the back of a dolphin-like monster. At the top her cap is Scotland; her neck is labeled R. Tees (River Tees) and along her back is "Humber" and "The Wash" The mouth of the creature is labeled "Thames". The other points on the map are: Isle of Wight and Bristol Channel, Cardogan Bay, and Anglesea (a bird perched on the woman's out-stretched hand).
Alternative Title:
Britannia
Description:
Title supplied by artist above design., Added title supplied by cataloger, based on the Gillray print of which this is a copy., Signed and dated by the artist in lower margin., and Drawn after James Gillray's print "Britannia", published 25 June 1791. Cf. No. 8045 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
"Portrait of a young man, half-length, with elbow leaning on the back of a chair placed in front of him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 1 f. 3 1/4 i. by 1 f. 7 1/2 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate 39 in the first volume of: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788., and On same sheet: Captain of banditti.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1777, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Gunst, Pieter Stevens van, 1659?-1724?, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1788]
Call Number:
Drawer 788.00.00.42
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Later state with different lettering. Earlier state published ca. 1715 as one of a series of ten plates by Gunst after van Dyck; see British Museum online catalogue, registration number: Kk,5.5.4., Publication date based on that of the bound volume in which this print appears., Plate LXVIII 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 Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat.
Publisher:
Publish'd by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669,
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 1 1/2 i. by 4 f. 3 i. long., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate VII 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: Venus & Cupid.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1779, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"The young Hercules wrestling with serpents."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1870,0514.1300., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Engraved after the painting, formerly owned by Sir Robert Walpole, that was subsequently acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., 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 : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 17 x 14.5 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of artist statement., and For further information, consult library staff.
"The young Hercules wrestling with serpents."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1870,0514.1300., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Engraved after the painting, formerly owned by Sir Robert Walpole, that was subsequently acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 156 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., and Annotation in a contemporary hand (possibly that of Horace Walpole) in lower left corner: The orig. was Sr. R. Walpole's.
Title from caption below image., Text below title, in lower left: Size of the picture, 1 f. 3 1/2 i. by 1 f. 6 3/4 i. in height., 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. 1., and On same sheet: Dobson's father.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1st, 1774, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
