Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[before 1809]
Call Number:
Print00887
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Signed by the artist in ink at lower left., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Nannies (Children's nurses), Grandparents, Urination, Grandparent and child, and Child care
A collection of 75 wash drawings and watercolor landscape drawings, mostly unidentified and unsigned. Later annotations attribute the drawings to Mason, Gilpin and Holland, and identify specific places in the British Isles: Mason's Arched Rock on the Isle of Wright, Bolton Abbey; Gilpin's Windermere Lake; Summer House Aston Rectory,Yorkshire. Possibly drawings executed for Gilpin's series "Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year ..." or for his "Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of south Wales, &c." Also laid in is an engraving in blue ink on a paper doily etched with the title: Maths.Huelin & Ca. Malaga. Some drawings dated in pencil on mount, in a later hand, "1797".
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger. and Bound in three-quarters green morocco with marble boards and label on front cover stamped in gold tooling and gold lettering "Drawing"; with metal clasp.
Title in ink at lower left corner., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
Folio 64 B39 813
Collection Title:
Page 152b. Magna Britannia.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title inscribed in gold paint within lower border; remainder of title written beneath border., Signed by the artist in gold paint in lower right., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted on page 152b in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Subject (Name):
Warwick, Anne Dudley, Countess of, 1548 or 1549-1604, and Woburn Abbey.
Volume 1, opposite page 20. Some account of London.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Archbishop Chichele, 1437
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath drawing, on mounting sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted opposite page 20 in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Pennant, T. Some account of London. London : Printed for R. Faulder, 1793.
Page 365. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of the suit of armor, shown in an arched niche with a pike and shield, that Horace Walpole believed to be of Francis I, King of France
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet., Artist "E.B." identified as E. Bell in local card catalog record., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., Mounted with a wood-engraved image of the staircase at Strawberry Hill, where the suit of armor was kept., and Mounted on page 365 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Page 243. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satirical coat of arms, engraved heraldically, with cards, dice, Earls coronet (Lord Darlington) shaking a dice-box. The arms are encircled by a claret bottle ticker, by way of order
Alternative Title:
Cog it amor nummi and White's Club coat of arms
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image; the motto "Cog it amor nummi" is written within a banner at bottom of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Copy of a drawing by Richard Edgcumbe, designed along with George Selwyn, George Williams, and Horace Walpole, that was produced in 1756 at Strawberry Hill. The original drawing was sold in lot 12 of the 22nd day of the Strawberry Hill Sale in 1842., Date of production based on death date of T. Crofton Croker, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., For an engraving after the original drawing, see no. 3350 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Tipped in at page 243 in T. Crofton Croker's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill., and With a clipping, mounted in upper right corner of sheet, that describes a portfolio of prints and drawings from Strawberry Hill; the clipping is annotated "See 22d day, lot 10" in ink at top.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London
Subject (Name):
White's Club (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Men, Societies and clubs, Playing cards, and Coats of arms
Volume 2, opposite page 198. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
John Bannister (as Whiskerandos in 'The critic')
Description:
Title written in pencil in lower right corner. Alternative title from note in ink on mounting sheet: John Bannister (as Whiskerandos in 'The Critic')., Signed and dated by the artist in pencil., Possibly the original design for an engraving by R. Smith that was published by John Cawthorn in 1806; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1933,1014.421. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 116. For a brief mention of De Wilde's portrait of Bannister as Whiskerandos, and the engraving after it by Smith, see: A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1600-1800, v.1, pages 272-3., and Mounted opposite page 198 (leaf numbered '9' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Bannister, John, 1760-1836,
Benjamin Holbrook, shown full-length in profile, walking to the left, holding with a long white staff in his right hand, clutching two memorandum books in his left hand, heading towards Fleet Market, with the west front of St. Paul’s Cathedral visible in the background. His eyes being closed and the presence of the staff indicate his blindness, and the patched elbow of his three-quarter-length coat his poverty
Description:
Title from ink inscription in lower left portion of image., Signed with the artist's initials and dated in lower right corner., Numbered "25" in top center., For the related print, entitled "Ben Holbrook, the walking stationer" and published 16 July 1783 by William Wells, see Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 542, no. 1., and Mounted with narrow paper mount.
Subject (Name):
Holbrook, Benjamin, active 1783, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Peddlers, Blind persons, Staffs (Sticks), and Stationery
Portrait of Queen Caroline seated on a red armchair wearing a black dress with frilled collar and a black feather hat
Description:
Title written in ink below image., 'P. Contencin’ is possibly Peter Contencin, 1760-1829, born in Islington and married to Elizabeth Leekey, 1760-1805., and Paper watermarked 'Weatherley & Lane 1818'.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,
