Page 219. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and date from note in ink below image, on mounting page., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of text., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Gaming-table -- Male costume, 1736 -- Female costume, 1736 -- Table settings -- Furniture., Folded to 23.1 x 25 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 219 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Title supplied by cataloger., Possibly from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Figure identified by note in pencil in contemporary hand.
Title supplied by cataloger., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2., Numbered "348" in lower right of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Collection of manuscripts, mostly in verse, from the papers of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) or his sister, Frances; includes: 1) a poem addressed to Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774); 2) an "Epitaph on Hogarth" (William Hogarth, 1697-1764) by David Garrick (1717-1807); 3) an "Elegy on the Death of Sir Joshua Reynolds"; and 4) a pen-drawing of a stout soldier with a dog; two of the poems are in the hand of Mary (Palmer) O'Brien, marchioness of Thomond (d. 1820).
"Portrait, three-quarter length seated directed to right, looking towards the viewer, holding an open book, wearing a plain suit, with a curtain and bookshelves behind, books labelled 'Addison & Watts' 'Kempis & Fenelon' 'Milton & Cowley' etc., in a rectangular frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1841,0313.184. and Text inscribed at top of image: "When the eye saw him it blessed him."
Full-length portrait of Rigby facing left, his hat held in his extended right hand, his left hand gripping his sword
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching and drypoint ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 18.3 x 12 cm., Printed on laid paper; hand-colored., and With contemporary ink annotation in upper right: Mr. Rigby, paymaster of the Army.
Full-length portrait of Rigby facing left, his hat held in his extended right hand, his left hand gripping his sword
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19.6 x 13.2 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 3 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Mr. Rigby.