Gardiner, W. N. (William Nelson), 1766-1814, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 December 1790]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester; half length, to the right, looking to the right almost in profile; bald, wearing fur trimmed robe; in rectangular frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, uncle to the King and Protector
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Harding, S. Shakespeare illustrated, by an assemblage of portraits & views ... London : S. & E. Harding, 1793., Mounted on page 175 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 : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 18.8 x 14.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 1, 1790, by E. Harding, 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 1391-1447,, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Gardiner, W. N. (William Nelson), 1766-1814, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 December 1790]
Call Number:
SH Contents G221 no. 2 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester; half length, to the right, looking to the right almost in profile; bald, wearing fur trimmed robe; in rectangular frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, uncle to the King and Protector
Description:
Title etched below image. and Plate from: Harding, S. Shakespeare illustrated, by an assemblage of portraits & views ... London : S. & E. Harding, 1793.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 1, 1790, by E. Harding, 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 1391-1447,, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"In the tower of London, Dighton and Forrest stand beside the bed of the two princes who are asleep, arms around each other, a book open at their side over a rosary. Dighton and Forrest hold a pillow, ready to smother the princes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 39.5 x 60 cm.
Publisher:
Published June 4th, 1790, by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & at No. 90 Cheapside
"Portrait bust of the Honble Peniston Lambe, turned in profile to left on a ledge, wearing winged helmet of the god, oval design; after a sculpture by Anne Seymour Damer, from a series of engravings after her work."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1917,1208.2897., Mounted on page 262 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:
Publish'd as the act directs June 26, 1790, by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage, Oxford; and J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, London
Subject (Name):
Lambe, Peniston, 1773-1805, and Mercury (Roman deity)
Half-length portrait in an oval, Philip Thicknessee looking right, frowning and brow knit
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Variant state, with a verse contained in a scroll above Thicknesse's portrait, of frontispiece from Curious facts and anecdotes not contained in the memoirs of Philip Thicknesse ..., Two lines of text quoted from Horace below title: "Absentem qui rodit amicum, "hic niger est, hune, tu Romane caveto! Horat., Four lines of verse in a scroll above image begin: No ties can hold him, no affection bind ..., and Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 14th, 1790, by J. Ridgway, York Street, St. James's Sque
Volume 2, page 99. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The beggar kneeling to left, holding a stick, his hat on the ground in front of him, at right a dog jumping up at a woman; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "First state before letters of title filled in"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1888,0716.240., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: A blind beggar that had long lost his sight, he had a fair daughter of beauty most bright, and many a gallant brave suitor had she, for none was so comely as pretty Bessey ..., Illustration to the anonymous ballad 'The blind beggar of Bethnal Green'., and Mounted on page 99 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augt. 20, 1790, by T. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
"Scene from the Sheridan play, the characters sitting together (suggested to be portraits of Mrs Green and Quick in the roles), the Duenna a portly woman at left with wide open mouth and hands on chest, turning to Isaac who cowers from her."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier state
Alternative Title:
Duenna and Little Isaac
Description:
Title engraved below image., Reissue, with imprint burnished from plate, of a print published with the imprint: London, Published April 1, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street., Date from Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: allusion to Sheridan's The Duenna., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
