"Rosalind gives a trinket to Orlando, crowned with a laurel wreath, who has just defeated the wrestler, while Celia peeps from behind her friend, smling at the two, in a garden with a colonnaded pavilion behind where the king walks thoughtfully."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, and imprint from later state in the British Museum., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark on top., Later state signed: "Painted by John Downman ; engraved by Willliam Leney.", and Imprint from later state: "Pub. June 4, 1800 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London."
On the left the ghost of Samuel Johnson, in a great swirl of billowing clouds, appears before a startled James Boswell, right hand raised in alarm, who is seated at a table strewn with papers and remnants. In his hand he holds a cushion labeled "Hebrides." Behind him on the wall are two shelves of books, many of which are identified by author and title, or numbered, perhaps a reference to his journals that were the basis of his Life of Samuel Johnson. Below the shelves is a framed portrait of Boswell. A quotation from William Congreve's The Way of the World, Act iv, Scene 9 is engraved below the image
Description:
Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of verse from "Congreve's Way of the world, Act IV, Scene 9", below title, beginning: Thou art a retailer of phrases ..., and A later copy of No. 8281 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
"A thin officer in profile to the left stands on a flagged pavement, his feet splayed outwards, right hand on hip, holding one glove in his (gloved) left hand. He wears an enormous busby and sabre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: 1st Grenadier Guards
Publisher:
1800. Publish'd May 19th by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
Title devised by cataloger., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece to: Freemasons magazine., "To the Rt. Worshipful & Rt. Honorable Lord Rawdon the rest of the officers composing the Grand Lodge of England the Freemasons' Magazine is most humbly inscribed"--At top of image., and Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: freemasons -- Cherubs -- Allusion to Francis Rawdon, 1st Marquis of Hastings, 1754-1826.
Nugent, Thomas, active 18th century, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Esther Jane Sheridan with her son Charles on her back, as a rustic figure carrying a jug towards a stream at right, donkeys in surrounding landscape."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Sheridan and son
Description:
Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statement of responsibility on lettered state: Painted by J. Hoppner R.A. ; engraved by T. Nugent., State before any lettering. For a later state with the imprint "London, Published April 2, 1800, by T. Nugent, No. 21 Charles Street, Middlesex Hospital," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,1209.321., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Bound in as frontispiece (opposite title page) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and With title "Hester Jane, Second Wife of R.B. Sheridan" and artist statement "John Hoppner pinxt." added in pencil in lower margin, in a later hand. Printmaker's name "Nugent" written beneath image in lower right, in a contemporary hand.
Publisher:
T. Nugent
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Hester Jane, 1776-1817, and Sheridan, Charles Brinsley, 1796-1843,
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Donkeys, Pitchers, Mothers, and Children
"Ferdinand and Miranda standing to left in the cave, arm in arm, Ferdinand looking up with outstretched arms, amazed at a circle of female spirits above their heads, controlled by Prospero, who stands to right, looking thoughtfully away to left, having learnt from them of Caliban's plot against him; with Caliban and two others in the background to right, on the sea-shore."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, and imprint from British Museum online catalogue. and Sheet trimmed at right and bottom edges.
Publisher:
J. & J. Boydell
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
