"A handsome and fashionable young man rides a spirited horse in profile to the left over a pavement of small stones. He is round-shouldered and rides with hands and feet thrust forward, a cane resting on his right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
How to ride with elegance through the streets
Description:
Title etched above image., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Tis not in mortals to command success, "Arrah but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Literature: quotation from Joseph Addison's Cato, I.2.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"Dock scene, a sign on the wall reads 'Bell Wharf': a man in a black coat and hat stands writing, resting the paper on a crate, looking to right at a young man with a neck-tie, who stands beside a man carrying a sack, giving an account, hat in hand, while gesturing to another man who brings a barrel up the steps and talks to a man in a rowing boat, alongside to right, with wife and two children to left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Industry and economy
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: These are the cares that give a zest to life, source of no social, no domestic trife ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Piers & wharves, Barrels, Rowboats, and Dogs
"Dock scene, a sign on the wall reads 'Bell Wharf': a man in a black coat and hat stands writing, resting the paper on a crate, looking to right at a young man with a neck-tie, who stands beside a man carrying a sack, giving an account, hat in hand, while gesturing to another man who brings a barrel up the steps and talks to a man in a rowing boat, alongside to right, with wife and two children to left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Industry and economy
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: These are the cares that give a zest to life, source of no social, no domestic trife ..., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching ; sheet 67.8 x 53.5 cm., and Trimmed within plate mark. Printed on wove paper.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Piers & wharves, Barrels, Rowboats, and Dogs
"Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth standing in a flagged hall in front of an archway, a view of mountains beyond, looking up resolutely to left, stepping forward and extending her right arm with clenched fist, her other hand at her breast, holding a paper"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., "Shakspeare"--At head of title., Lettered below the image with the title, reference, quotation over eight lines: "Lady M. - Come to my woman's breasts ... To cry, Hold, hold!', and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. June 4, 1800 by J. & J. Boydell, Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Gruoch, Queen, consort of Macbeth, King of Scotland, and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
Subject (Topic):
Characters, Lady Macbeth, In literature, Performances, and Actors
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., One line of text below title: Arrah! My dear honey, to be sure, I'd rather walk if it wasn't for the fashio of the thing., Plate numbered '238' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: sedan chair -- Irishmen -- Street vendors: pipe sellers., and Watermark: 1812.
Publisher:
Published 28th Jany. 1800, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint and other text from bottom edge., and Mounted on page 185 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
"Portrait of Francis Rawdon Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira, after Reynolds (undescribed by Mannings); half-length, standing slightly to left against background of cloudy sky, with head turned and slightly tilted to look towards the viewer; wearing military uniform with epaulette on his right shoulder, dark neckerchief and white frill; in an oval, bordered by stippled line."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Francis Rawdon Hastings
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Joshua Kirby Baldrey; see description of the earlier state in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 462, no. 11., Later state, with altered title and new publication line, of a print published 1 June 1784 by Joshua Kirby Baldrey. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1840,0808.93., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 656 (leaf numbered '105' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 9, 1800, by Anthy. Molteno, printseller to Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, 29 Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
India and India.
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826,, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826., Great Britain. Army, and Great Britain. Army.
Subject (Topic):
Officers, Governors general, Armed Forces, Governors, and British
Title etched below image., After a painting by John Giles Eccardt. Cf. National Portrait Gallery, London, no.: NPG 383., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement. Missing text supplied from a more perfect impression., and Mounted on page 71 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
"Portrait of George Villiers, three-quarter length directed to the right, in lace collar, left hand on hip, right hand resting on head of greyhound."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir George Villiers
Description:
Title etched below image., After a painting by Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1920,1211.1360., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 120 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., 1 print : stipple engraving on wove paper ; sheet 21.2 x 14.9 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement.
Publisher:
Pubd. Dec. 3, 1800, by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Villiers, George, Sir, -1606, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
