Half-length, oval portrait of Samuel Clarke, influential British metaphysician and Anglican clergyman, looking slightly leftt and wearing a clerical collar. Created in preparation for the engraved portrait print engraved by Jacobus Houbraken and published by John & Paul Knapton in 1740
Alternative Title:
Dr. Samuel Clarke and Samuel Clarke
Description:
Title from inscription on verso of drawing., Portrait is unsigned., After a portrait by Thomas Gibson., and One of ten watercolor portraits and other drawings included in George Vertue's set of engravings: The heads of the most illustrious persons of Great Britain (London : John and Paul Knapton). See all catalog records by searching call number: LWL Folio 724 743 H432 (Oversize).
Picart, Charles, approximately 1780-approximately 1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 April 1811]
Call Number:
Portraits P258 no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Samuel Parr, half-length, slightly turned to the left, dressed in an academic gown with bands at his neck and with a powdered bob-wig on his head, drapery behind, illustration to 'Contemporary Portraits' (1811)"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Reverend Samuel Parr, L.L.D.
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., and Mounted on secondary paper support.
Publisher:
Published April 27, 1811, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Chisholm, Alexander, 1792 or 1793-1847, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1800 and 1830?]
Call Number:
Portraits P258 no. 5+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait; full-length seated with legs crossed facing front and looking away to left, wearing a soft velvet tasselled cap, left hand tucked into his waist-coat, right holding a pipe with the elbow resting on a table near an open book, ink-pot and another pipe, with books propped under the table-cloth to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint and date supplied from British Museum online catalogue, registration numbers: 1868,0808.1873., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Mounted to sheet 55.4 x 38.1 cm.
Publisher:
Published by E. Chisholme, No. 3, Brook Street, New Road
A group of clergymen sit around a table in a tavern drinking and smoking and conversing with a Quaker. Some of their hats are hanging on pegs along the wall on either side of a framed picture of a man on a race horse. A fire is blazing in the fireplace to the left
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '383' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of descriptive text below title: Toasts and sentiments were going regularly round from the gentlemen of the cloth, but when it came to Broad-brim's turn he refused! Saying that it was not customary with his profession, to give either toasts or sentiments ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 12, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Great Britain, Eating & drinking, and Pipes (Smoking)
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 46 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A dour woman wearing a feathered headdress stands before a preacher and his clerk as they exclaim respectively, "O Lord, save this lady, thy servant" followed by "Who putteth her ladyship's trust in thee."
Alternative Title:
Churching a lady
Description:
Title inscribed in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Great Britain, Preaching, Religious services, and Churches
Dunkarton, Robert, approximately 1744-1811, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[approximately April 1806]
Call Number:
Portraits H217 no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait, three-quarter length, seated in profile to left, wearing clerical statements, bands and wigs, right hand resting on papers scattered on a table, in front of books; after Kettle
Description:
Title devised by cataloger based on finished print in the British Museum online catalogue., Printmaker, artist, and publication data from finished print in the British Museum online catalogue., and Note on finished state: "Engraved from a Picture in the Vestry Room of St Martin's in the Fields, and Published at the Request of the Vestry and Inhabitants".
A thin emaciated Parson holds a 'tithe' in the form of a pig in a basket while a second Parson, obese with a huge puanch, raises a stick in the air and opens his mouth wide as if beginning an admonishment
Description:
Title, date, and artist attribution suggested by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
