Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
761.00.00.09
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the Scots and on the supposed relationship between Lord Bute and Princess Augusta, showing on the left a plaid curtain behind which the couple are seen dancing when the print is held to the light; on the right a Scottish bag-piper plays "Sc...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Two young women fashionably attired in high-wasted dresses, turban-like hats, and carrying large fur muffs, shown full-length walking from the left. On the right a heavy-set women kneels with her back to the audience. When backlit, the undergarments o...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 17th, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
A coffin is carried down the stairs of a gothic church by a procession of monks, lit by the light of the full moon and the flames of the torches that some of the monks carry. They walk toward an open crypt in the foreground. The light from the crypt i...
Description:
Title and approximate date of production from dealer's description.
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Funeral processions, Incense, Monks, Moonlight, Pointed arches, and Torches
"Interior of a gothic vault, with a tomb on the left lit by a hanging lamp and decorated with a reclining man in tudor dress holding a baton; to right are a couple leaning against a pillar, and a man holding a torch gesturing towards the tomb ..."--Br...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 16, 1799, at R. Ackermanns, 101 Strand ...
