"Statue of the bird standing to left on a square base, resting on a ledge, 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., Text below title: One of the wings was almost cut off in seizing it. Mrs. Damer was present, and caught the idea in that moment of its rage., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Drawn and engraved after the terra-cotta model kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 200 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 as the act directs, June 26, 1790, by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage Oxford; and J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, London
"Statue of the bird standing to left on a square base, resting on a ledge, 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., Text below title: One of the wings was almost cut off in seizing it. Mrs. Damer was present, and caught the idea in that moment of its rage., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Drawn and engraved after the terra-cotta model kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 253 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 : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 27.6 x 19.3 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., 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
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Mr. Schoole, barrister, and Mrs. Alicia (Fowler) Rybot, illustrating Mrs. Rybot's trial at Doctors' Commons
Alternative Title:
Special pleader
Description:
Titles from text below images. and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1790, page 435.
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Caption title: I've got the day., Four lines of verse below the caption: The ragged wretch here boasts he's won his cause, And blesses justice for her equal laws ..., Temporary local subject terms: Law and lawyers -- Poverty., and Watermark (partial): initials L V G below a shield.
Publisher:
Pub. April 6, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
A preacher stands before a distinctly ill-contented congregation in a barren room. He uses as a pulpit an overturned tub inscribed "Remember the clergy"; from his pocket pokes a ballad "Black joke" and under the tub a copy of the book of Common Prayer. On the wall is a bill reading "Next Sabeth Day we shall hav a love feest it is hoped every lamb will atend ..." In the casement window a sign "Mangling done here." In the foreground a small dog urinates on paper inscribed "Repeal of Coporat[ion] & Test Act." A handbill protruding from a quack doctor's pocket reads "Doctor Henry a ever failing remedy."
Alternative Title:
Tale of a tub
Description:
Title and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., The Lewis Walpole Library Impression 1: Title lettered in contemporary hand "A tale of a tub.", and Watermark: M & J Lay.
Simon, John Peter, -approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1790]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 20
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Duke Senior watches on the right as Hymen, bearing a flaming torch, brings Rosalind forward to take the astonished Orlando by the hand, in front of a large gnarled tree in the forest, while the other couples, including Audrey and Touchstone on the right, look on; late open-letter state with center foreground incomplete."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from published state., "Shakspeare" etched below image., and Sheet trimmed on all sides.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1790 by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Volume 2, page 97. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing with a basket on her crossed arms, returning the smile of a fat monk at left with a contemptuous expression; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Monk and a young maid
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Early state, before title and imprint statement added. For a later state with imprint present, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.125., Publication information from imprint on later state: London, Publish'd June 1st, 1790, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 97 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
"George III in coronation robes sitting under a coffered dome, facing left, crowned by a woman with a snake twined around her arm, the staff of Aesclepius resting against a bowl-shaped incense burner beside her, Britannia sitting below, looking up at him with a cherub holding a cornucopia full of coins near her feet; a female figure in a niche to left, holding a burning torch and olive branch, armour at her feet; another female in a niche to right, holding a cornucopia."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
To Sir Joseph Banks, bart., president of the Royal Society, this plate from the transparency exhibited at his house on the 10th of March 1789 on the general illumination for His Majesty's recovery, is humbly dedicated by his obedient servant, Charles Ansell
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Caption below image is a dedication: To Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., president of the Royal Society, this plate ... is humbly dedicated by his obedient servant, Charles Ansell., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. June 4, 1790, by C. Ansell, No. 5 Upper Iohn Street, Fitzroy Chapel, I. Matthews, No. 441 Strand, & Molteno, Colnaghi & Co., No. 132 Pall Mall
"A woman sitting on a stool outside of a cottage, playfully holding a bunch of grapes aloft which a young boy at left reaches towards, a dog leaning against her knee and a girl seen from the back stands behind; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
In-house title: Woman with grapes teasing boy
Description:
Title from description in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.2973., State with spelling of printmaker's name corrected. For an earlier state with printmaker's name misspelled "Shepherd" in statement of responsibility, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Going to market., and Mounted on page 15 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1st, 1790, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street
