"Portrait; half length to right; wearing wide collar and pedant; from a picture at Knowsley."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Early (proof?) state, before shading added to block lettering of title and before text "from an original picture in the collection of the Rt. Honble. the Earl of Orford at Strawbery [sic] Hill" added to end of title. For later state with these additions, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,0612.231., Early state of a plate from: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 154 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:
Pub. Aug. 1, 1792, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Derby, Charlotte Stanley, countess of, 1599-1664, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait; half length to right; wearing wide collar and pedant; from a picture at Knowsley."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?]., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1852,0612.231., Mounted on page 63 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 wove paper ; sheet 16.4 x 11.6 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Pitt stands in profile to the right, right hand extended, left hand resting on the table of the House of Commons, on which are books, &c. He says, "If there is a Fundamental deficiency why call for Papers?" The title and phrase (used by Pitt in debate) express the exaggerated attenuation of Pitt below the waist. He wears court-dress with a sword. The print is said to give a realistic impression of Pitt in debate. Cf. BMSat 8097."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bottomless pit
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the House of Commons -- Furniture: table of the House of Commons -- Male costume: court dress, 1792., and Mounted to 36 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 16th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Pitt stands in profile to the right, right hand extended, left hand resting on the table of the House of Commons, on which are books, &c. He says, "If there is a Fundamental deficiency why call for Papers?" The title and phrase (used by Pitt in debate) express the exaggerated attenuation of Pitt below the waist. He wears court-dress with a sword. The print is said to give a realistic impression of Pitt in debate. Cf. BMSat 8097."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bottomless pit
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the House of Commons -- Furniture: table of the House of Commons -- Male costume: court dress, 1792., 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.4 x 23.0 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., and Mounted on leaf 3 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 16th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by George in the original publication as Mrs. Lessingham (No. 10) and Justice Addington of Bow Street (No. 11).
Alternative Title:
Upright magistrate
Description:
Titles from text below images., Tête-à-tête extracted probably from the Oxford magazine, April 1792., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and country magazine, June 1777 (ix, 233) with different titles and plate numbers., Variant state of No. 5415 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1792]
Call Number:
792.03.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design in a circle: An old woman and a little boy sit facing each other in a bare and dilapidated room. She sits in profile to the left, in an upholstered armchair, threading a needle to mend clothes; a shirt lies on her patched apron. He sits with hands folded on a ladderback chair. Between and behind them sits a cat
Description:
Title from time., Sheet trimmed on sides within plate mark., and Two lines of text below image: I wish from my heart - one of us three was hang'd - I don't mean you poor Puss - nor I don't mean myself.'
Publisher:
Published March 1st 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Cats, Chairs, Dwellings, Eyeglasses, Grandparents, Interiors, Poverty, and Sewing
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by the British Museum catalogue in the original publication as Capt. Roper (No. 3) and a Miss F-----m, a London courtesan (No. 2).
Alternative Title:
Ardent lover
Description:
Titles from text below images., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and Country magazine, August 1777 (ix, 345), with different titles and plate numbers., and Variant state of No. 5417 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.5.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by the British Museum catalogue in the original publication as the Earl of Peterborough and a Miss Dawson
Alternative Title:
Autumnal lover
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Variant state of No. 5418 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of unidentified subjects
Alternative Title:
Compassionate lover
Description:
Titles etched below images., Plate probably from: The Oxford magazine, November 1792., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
