"Seneca sitting on the right, his feet in a basin of water, supported by two men, gesturing and looking to right towards two young men who take down his last teachings, one kneeling, while four others lean in attentively from the left, two with paper and quills, columns behind and richly dressed men with a soldier gathered among the columns in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Coat of arms engraved below image with the motto: Cor unum via una., Dedication below title: From the original picture ... in the collection of The Right Honourable the Earl of Exeter, to whom this plate is dedicated, by His Lordship's most obliged and most humble servant, John Boydell., Text below dedication in lower left: Size of the picture, 8 f. 4 i. by 10 f. 2 i. in length., Plate from: A collection of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in England. London: [J. Boydell, 1769], v. 1., and Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 50.
Publisher:
J. Boydell
Subject (Name):
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.,
Subject (Topic):
Suicides, Basins (Containers), Writing materials, Columns, and Soldiers
Delivery of Saint Peter out of prison and From the original drawing in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire
Description:
One of two hundred plates that were later issued in bound volumes entitled: Liber veritatis. Or, A collection of two hundred prints ... / after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain ... executed by Richard Earlom ... London: Published by the proprietor, John Boydell, [1777-1819]., Title from descriptive catalog at beginning of bound volume., Text below image: From the original drawing in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire., and Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 51.
Publisher:
Published Augt. 1st, 1774, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Title from caption below image., Text below image in lower left: Size of the picture, 6 f. 0 i. by 8 f. 11 i. high., Text below image in lower right: St. Luke, chap. 1, verse 49., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate LVIII 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 Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 1st, 1785, by John Boydell, engraver, in Cheapside
"Woodland scene with a naked young boy lying on a cloth in the foreground, guarded by dogs; to right, a herdsman and a woman, presumably Mithridates and his wife Cyno, surprised at the sight; to left, a curved stone frieze of soldiers, surmounted by a crown and a naked child holding up a shield; to right, a boy looking on from behind Mithridates' sheep; fields and cattle in the background at centre."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state
Description:
Title etched below image, above and on either side of etched Walpole arms bearing the motto "Fari quae sentiat.", Text below title: Six of the picture 2 f. 4 1/4 i. by 3 f. 6 1/2 i. long., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 151 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, 1781, by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Cyrus, the Great, King of Persia, -530 B.C. or 529 B.C.
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 2 f. 10 1/4 i. by 3 f. 7 1/4 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., and Plate XVII 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.
Publisher:
Published Mar. 25th, 1780, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"Mary kneeling and holding out the Christ child to the high priest, who leans down with open arms; a group of men looking on from a higher level between pillars, one climbing down; Joseph standing behind Mary in a humble attitude to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Size of the picture, 2 f. 0 i. by 2 f. 6 i. in height"--Lower left corner., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 212 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 Sepr. 25th, 1771, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Title from caption below image., Text below title, in lower left: Size of the picture, 6 f. 6 1/3 i. by 8 f. 4 1/4 i. in height., 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. 1., and On same sheet: Joconda.
Publisher:
Published Mar. 25th, 1775, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842]., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
