"Design in an oval. Fox with a very melancholy expression, standing with folded arms facing three quarter to left outside a closed and padlocked gate repeating Wolsey's soliloquy from Henry the Eighth. The gate fills an archway, its top being of iron spikes, the padlock is inscribed Fast. The stone arch over the gate is inscribed Treasury. On the stone wall of the Treasury building (left) are torn placards. One is a broadside, 'Last Dying Speech' headed by a print of a man hanging from a gibbet; another is headed "Gamester". Beneath the title is inscribed: "Farewell, a long Farewell to all my Greatness! this is the state of Man, to Day he puts forth the tender leaves of hopes, tomorrow Blossoms & bears all his blushing Honours thick upon him: the Third Day comes a Frost a killing Froast [sic], & when he thinks good easy Man full surely his Greatness is a Ripening, nips his Root & then befalls as I do!"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 12th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"Design in an oval. Fox with a very melancholy expression, standing with folded arms facing three quarter to left outside a closed and padlocked gate repeating Wolsey's soliloquy from Henry the Eighth. The gate fills an archway, its top being of iron spikes, the padlock is inscribed Fast. The stone arch over the gate is inscribed Treasury. On the stone wall of the Treasury building (left) are torn placards. One is a broadside, 'Last Dying Speech' headed by a print of a man hanging from a gibbet; another is headed "Gamester". Beneath the title is inscribed: "Farewell, a long Farewell to all my Greatness! this is the state of Man, to Day he puts forth the tender leaves of hopes, tomorrow Blossoms & bears all his blushing Honours thick upon him: the Third Day comes a Frost a killing Froast [sic], & when he thinks good easy Man full surely his Greatness is a Ripening, nips his Root & then befalls as I do!"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 29.1 x 20.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 1 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 12th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"View of the bridge from mid-stream on the Thames; the City Barge and other boats in foreground, Westminster Abbey beyond bridge to the right, and Lambeth House further along the riverbank to the left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Publisher and date of publication from that of the volume in which print appears., Plate from: Maitland, W. The history and survey of London from its foundation to the present time ... London : Printed for T. Osborne, 1760., Six columns of descriptive text, three on each side of title, etched below image., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
T. Osborne
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., Westminster Bridge (London, England),, and London (England)
Harris, John, active 1680-1739 or 1740, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1714]
Call Number:
Drawer Topos L847 no. 147
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of St. Paul's from the south east, in the churchyard; the statue of Queen Anne outside west entrance at far left; a few small figures and carriages in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher based on that of the volume in which the print appears., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., and Plate from: Britannia illustrata ... London : Printed for ... & Ioseph Smith ..., 1714-1715.
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1748]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 73+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"South front of the old church, with the two figures in the clock tower, later removed to Regent's Park"--British museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Southeast prospect of the church of St. Dunstan in the West
Description:
Title from text above image., Date of publication based on printseller's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Later state of a print originally published 18 March 1739. See British Museum online catalogue., Dedication below image, lower left: To Joseph Taylor Esquire, patron of this church, this plate is humbly inscribed by the proprietors Robert West and Willm. Henry Toms., Text below image, lower right: This church was dedicated to St. Dunstan, Archbp. of Cant., who died A.D. 990 ..., and Plate numbered "58" in upper right corner.
"View of Kensington Church from the street, looking straight down the street to the right, and with part of a building on the left with an arched entrance"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Veüe de l'Eglise de Kensington au sud es
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on printseller's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "76" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1748]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of the church of Allhalows Barking on Tower Street, from the graveyard
Alternative Title:
South east prospect of the church of All Hallows Barking
Description:
Title from text above image., Date of publication based on printseller's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Dedication below image, lower left: To the Most Reverend Father in God, John by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ..., Text below image, lower right: This church was dedicated to [the] B. V. Mary & Alhallows ..., and Plate numbered "53" in upper right corner.
Harris, John, active 1680-1739 or 1740, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1715]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 137++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the house from the park; a few elegantly dressed figures in park in foreground, four empty niches on building, two on either side"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge., and Plate from: Britannia illustrata ... London : Printed for ... & Ioseph Smith ..., 1714-1715.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by J. Smith in Exeter Change in [the] Strand
"A man in quasi-fashionable dress with spurred top-boots and knee-breeches gapes oafishly at a print-shop window, while a little boy, respectably dressed, takes a purse from his breeches-pocket, having already twitched a handkerchief from the coat-tail pocket which hangs inside out. Behind (right) a lady stares through an eye-glass. In each pane of the curved window of a corner-shop (Berthoud's?) is a print. One of the Devil faces a portrait of the 'Duke of Wellington'; these are 'The Pair Half a Crown' [cf. BM Satires Nos. 13826, 15646]; 'Up to every thing' is a tall soldier, taking the hand of a woman at a first-floor window; 'A Loan' is BM Satires No. 14993; 'Man of Taste' is a man at the counter of a ham and beef shop (cf. BM Satires No. 13127); 'Remember the Post Boy your Honor', scene in an inn yard. There are other prints, one is a double sheet: 'Joe Lisle Play upon words'. There is a Paul Pry (not resembling Liston, cf. BM Satires No. 15138), and against the pickpocket's head is a print of an empty gibbet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827.
Publisher:
Published by Berthoud & Son, 65, Quadrant
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Boys, City & town life, Merchandise displays, Pickpockets, Prints, Stores & shops, and Witnesses
