publish'd according to act of Parliament, 18 July 1747.
Call Number:
Topos N878 no. 1++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of a ruined castle, on the flat top of a cliff, with several bsuildings closer to the sea, all surrounded by low walls, ships on the sea to the left, which runs into a bay below the castle, with figures on the clifftop in the foreground, including a man wearing plaid and leaning on his staff as he talks to a seated man, a small rowing boat striking out on the left; after Thomas Smith"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Ownership stamp in red ink on verso: B. Newton.
"Interior; a great hall with figures in Elizabethan dress, the women in balconies around the side, men standing below, a procession approaching from the right towards Henry VIII who sits enthroned at the far end, below a coffered ceiling with pendants"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from dedication etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
24 views, displaying the beauties of Yarmouth and its environs
Description:
With printed labels on front and back brown paper covered boards: Twenty-four views, displaying the Beauties of Yarmouth and its environs : extending from Caister Castle to Lowestoft Light-House; and including the remains of antiquities, public buildings, picturesque views and whatever is worthy of notice along the coast, or on the banks of the Yare, the Bure, and the Waveney. Engraved in the line manner by Mr. Joseph Lambert: from drawings made by him for that purpose. Price ten shillings. and Original roan-backed boards with printed title labels on upper and lower covers. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by W. Meggy, engraver, copper-plate printer, bookseller, and stationer, Quay; and mya be had of the principla booksellers in Norwich and Lowestoft
Subject (Geographic):
Yarmouth (England), Suffolk (England), Norfolk (England), England., England, and Yarmouth.
Title etched below image., Figures and landmarks in this print are lettered in plate with key beneath title: A. Upnor Castle. B. The River Medway. C. Mr. Thornhill. D. Mr. Hogarth. E. Mr. Forrest. F. Mr. Tothall. G. Mr. Scott., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate for: Gosling, W. Account of what seemed most remarkable in the five days peregrination of the five following persons ..., Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.)., and On page 211in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 27th 1781 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarth's Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,, Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734,, Scott, Samuel, approximately 1710-1772,, and Upnor Castle (Kent, England)
Burgess, Henry William, approximately 1792-1844, artist
Published / Created:
1817.
Call Number:
Folio 633 817 B955
Image Count:
15
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An album of seven pencil sketches, mounted with a neat ink borders. beginning with a title page, a view in a grove with trees and with two figures (one seated and pointing, the other with a portfolio under his arm) in conversation and a rock, the face of which is inscribed with the album title. The six drawings folllowing are romanticised topographical subjects including castles, gates, and ecclesiastical buildings, in ruins, enveloped in trees and foliage, from the vantage point of a river or allong the roadside
Alternative Title:
Six drawings by H.W. Burgess and 6 drawings by H.W. Burgess
Description:
William Henry Burgess (circa 1792-1844), landscape painter to William IV and the teacher of John Leech and Thackeray., In English., Title from title page drawing., Miss Bell unidentified., Bound in contemporary blue straight grain morocco, with decorated boards, upper cover lettered in gilt., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Drawing, British, Abbeys, Castles & palaces, and Religious facilities
Watercolor drawing of Elizabeth Castle in Jersey, as viewed from the west across St. Aubin's Bay. Mainland Jersey is visible on the left; several sailboats surround the islet on which the castle sits, with men seen hoisting a sail on the boat in the right foreground. Gray clouds fill the sky
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., and Mounted on page 69 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Figures by a boat and rocks in the foreground; the ruins of Tantallon Castle to the left; the Firth of Forth stretching to the distance; Bass Rock on the horizon; boats throughout the scene
Alternative Title:
View of Tantallon Castle, the Bass-Rock and the River Forth
Description:
Title etched below image. and Titled 'View of Tantalon Castle, the Bass Rock, and the River Forth, by J. Farington; engraved by Dodd, 1792.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc, London, 1829.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 1792 by F. Jukes, No. 10 Howland Street
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, Forth, Firth of, Forth, Firth of., and Forth, Firth of (Scotland)
"North east front of the Tower, looking towards Tower Hill; figures in foreground including a woman with a large basket on her head closely followed by a man with an umbrella under his arm on the left, and a woman with two children sitting down at a table with baskets at her feet on the right, the Tower in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 85, second., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 185.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title from caption below image; title also etched in reverse above image., Date of publication based on year of death for former publisher at that address: Paul André Basset. See British Museum online catalogue., "Déposé."--Lower right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Duluat?
Publisher:
Chez Hocquart succr. de Basset rue St. Jacques No. 64
Drawing of Whitehall Palace framed by two pencilled lines and mounted on a secondary sheet
Description:
Drawing attributed to Vertue in pencil on the mount below image and titled in pencil on the verso. Attribution questionable. and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of Strawberry Hill, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
