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.964., and Plate XXXIV 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.
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.
Portrait of Robert De Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford; head in profile to right, wearing jewelled crown
Description:
Title etched below image., Engraved after a drawing kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 158 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 : etching and stipple engraving in red ink on wove paper ; sheet 14.4 x 10.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Published July 10th, 1782, by I. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
Subject (Name):
Ireland, Robert de Vere, Duke of, 1362-1392, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A young woman smiling, with her head and shoulders slightly turned to right and her loose shirt open showing left breast, carries a basket of shrimps on her head
Description:
Title etched below image., Identified as the "third state" in British Museum online catalogue. See Registration number: Cc,1.186., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Mr. Nichols's Bookd 3d edit. p. 411., and On page 218 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25th 1782 by Jane Hogarth & Rd. Livesay, Leicester Fields
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a merchant's wife and her alleged lover, James Marquis of Graham later 4th Duke of Montrose
Alternative Title:
Favourite of the fair and Mrs. Pope
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered above each image: No. XXII and No. XXIII, respectively., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" from the Town and Country Magazine, 1782 p. 401.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a Miss Clavering(?) and her unidentified lover, possibly Col. St. Leger, a friend of the Prince of Wales
Alternative Title:
Gallant colonel and Miss Clavering
Description:
Title from item., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1782 p. 289., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
