Gulston, Eliza B., 1749 or 1750-1779 or 1780, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd as the act directs, 2d March 1772.
Call Number:
772.03.02.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men of military appearance seem to be confronting each other. The tall one on the left is holding his hat in one hand and a pike over his shoulder, with the spear pointing down at his companion who is short and obese. The latter looks up beligerently holding a stick in his right hand as if ready to strike. Both wear wigs with long thin queues and have a small moustache
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Military: soldiers -- Weapons: pike -- Weapons: sword.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two monks, one on the left with his hands tucked inside his sleeves at his waist, turned towards the viewer, the other in profile to right, holding a rosary at his side; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 1 April 1774. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.822., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Two men (half length) seated on each side of a chess-board. Their profile heads are enclosed in rhomboids resembling the diamond of a pack of cards, giving the profiles projecting noses with receding foreheads and chins. The defeated player (left) clenches his fist and raises a bare leg above the chess-board, kicking his shoe into the air. His opponent holds a cane which may indicate a doctor
Alternative Title:
Chess-players
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. Title from British Museum: Chess-players., Dated from ms. note on Lewis Walpole Library impression., A copy after a 1788 print? Cf. [Chess-players] in the British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. note added below image: 1828.
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of 15 sermons preached between January 7, 1654/5 and July 1, 1655. The first seven sermons are on Exodus 20:17; the next three on Ecclesiastes 12:13; a single sermon is on Lamentations 3:40; and the final four on Luke 11:1-2.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary calf. and Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History and Great Britain--Religion--17th century
Subject (Topic):
Dissenters, Religious, Puritans --England--Sermons, and Sermons, English--17th century
Titles devised by cataloger., Imprint from title page accompanying prints., Plate from: A book of caricaturas : on 59 copper-plates, with [the] principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner, with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas / by M. Darly. Cornhill [England] : Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill, [176-?]., Plate numbered: "35"., With: [Profile of man with closed eyes] / MDarly fect. No. 36., Reissue., and Not bound; in box labeled "Darly 1763".
Title supplied by cataloger., On page numbered 48 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils]., and Stamped initials "M.R." in lower right corner of sheet.
Title supplied by cataloger., Faint pencil notation, partially legible: "9125 large plate of design with variation on the hand.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 32 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
