"View in St James's Park of the music gallery and pavillions erected for the fire work display, with a spiked fence surrounding the area, in foreground fashionably dressed figures stand next to a wooden fence looking across the park"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge.
Publisher:
Printed according to act of Parliament, & sold by P. Brookes facing Southampton Street in the Strand, & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
"View of the cathedral with the statue of Queen Anne in the churchyard in foreground to left; elegantly dressed figures in yard and on street to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve perspective views of the principal churches, streets, and squares in the cities of London and Westminster", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, pages 87, no. 10., Plate numbered "No. 2" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., Watermark: Charles Ball., and Leaf 32 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
"View in Green Park, the structure in question central in the view, Buckingham House beyond on the left, a few more buildings and rolling country side in the background, a number of fashionably dressed figures in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Veüe perspective du batiment magnifique, erigé dans le Parc Verd pour le Feu f'Artifice Royal exhibé le 27 d'Avril 1749, sur l'occasion de le paix general
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Sheet numbered "127" (later corrected to "129") in ink in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Perspective view of the north west front of ye parish church St. Brides ... and Vüe de l'eglise pareissiale de St. Bride : dont son cloche est de 242 pieds
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on printsellers' street addresses. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Window mounted to 29 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, Robt. Wilkinson in Cornhill, and Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
In an outdoor setting, George III examines through his quizzing glass a giant boulder with three bust portraits on it, each described below. On the left, in profile, is the Duke of Portland, with vague expression, "Supposed to be the head of a Patrician ... that never contained much brain ..." In the middle, full face, with angrily drawn brows, is Fox, "... turbulent and factious Tribune of great abilities which he exerted occasionally for and against Government ..." To the right, in profile, is a complacent looking Lord North, "... a Tribune of Patrician ancestors ..." who "... had the Art to impose himself upon the People for an honest disinterested man ..."
Alternative Title:
Lately discovered in the ruins of a temple once dedicated to liberty by the Britons
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Attributed to Colley by George who also suggests a possible attribution to Gillray., and Mounted to 29 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by M. Thomas, Princes Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Magnifying glasses, Boulders, and Clothing & dress
"An elderly man displays scientific experiments. He stoops forward, in profile to the left, holding a rod horizontally between his fingers, in the left hand is a glass. A small still, phials, &c, and an elaborate appliance (right) are on the long table behind which he stands. On the wall are two medallion profile-portraits, one (left) being that of Priestley. A serpent, a scroll with cabalistic signs, a terrestrial globe on a bracket, are also on the wall, which is lit by a single candle with a curiously shaped reflector."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Philosophers -- Scientific lectures -- Maps: globes -- Cabalistic signs -- Phials.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 28th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Walker, A. 1730 or 1731-1821 (Adam), and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1792?]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 16 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the same figure repeated in four sections in two rows. In each panel the man feigns unselfishness while slowly and subtly pocketing a bank note. Each panel is captioned in black ink: Indeed sir 'tis too much!; I can't think of taking it; Sir you are very obliging; Sir I have the honor to wish you a good morning
Alternative Title:
Physical delicacy
Description:
Title in black ink below image 'A physical progress of a bank note!!' later crossed out with graphite pencil and revised to 'Physical delicacies'., Date inscribed in pencil below image: 1792., Attributed to Woodward., A print titled 'Physical delicacy' etched by Joshua Gleadah and Pubd. by S.W. Fores Jany. 12th, 1823 contains the same captions and concept., and For further information, consult library staff.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 72 771 D37 v.2 plate 23
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man, stout and elderly, dressed as a bishop stands facing three-quarter to left. His right hand holds a tasselled mortar-board. He wears a silk gown, lawn sleeves, a pair of bands and an enormous wig. At the top of the plate is engraved, "Bishop of Eider Down"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram. M. Darly for Mary Darly or Matthew (or Matthias) Darly the printmaker? See British Museum catalogue., For later state with additional numbering, see no. 5003 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 5., Text above image: Bishop of Eider Down., and Plate numbered "23" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, Strand, April 1st, 1772, accor. to act
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Traill, James, -1783
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Clergy, Dandies, British, and Wigs
"A man, stout and elderly, dressed as a bishop stands facing three-quarter to left. His right hand holds a tasselled mortar-board. He wears a silk gown, lawn sleeves, a pair of bands and an enormous wig. At the top of the plate is engraved, "Bishop of Eider Down"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Series numbered in upper left and right corner, respectively: V. 2 23., and At top of image: Bishop of Eider Down.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, Strand, April 1st 1772, accor. to act
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Traill, James, -1783
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Clergy, Dandies, British, and Wigs
"A neo-classical façade with the royal arms at the top, three openings, the centre one arched, with a statue of Peace, Neptune and Mars below it, a double staircase leading up to it and a balustraded arcade extending to either side, ending in small lodges with triangular pediments; showing the disposition of the fireworks, rows of roman candles and catherine wheels, with a large catherine wheel above the arms, in which the words 'Vivat Rex' appear; with a plan below"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above image., Publisher from British Museum online catalogue., Text below title begins: The height of the machine 114 ft. to the top of His Majesty's arms ..., Text at bottom of plate begins: By order of His Grace the Duke of Montagu, Master General, and The Right Honble. the Lt. General and the rest of the principal officers ..., "'The Machine invented and design'd by the Chevr. Servandoni"--Lower left corner of design., "The Fireworks principally perform'd by the Signr. Gaetano, Ruggieri, and Giuseppe Sarti of Bolognia"--Lower right corner of design., "Price 1 shilling.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Acquired in honor of Joan Hall Sussler on the occasion of her retirement from The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 31 July 2002.
