Title supplied by cataloger., Date of printing based on watermark., and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; numbered '15' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Gulston, Eliza B., 1749 or 1750-1779 or 1780, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd as the act directs 2d March 1772.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 71. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature: a stout gentleman standing in profile to right, grinning, right hand behind his back, left tucked into his waistcoat, wearing a sword, frock coat and queue wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 71 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Title from no. 6360 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5. and Reversed version of an unidentified portrait of a man in bag wig, with long upper lip and receding chin (cf. British Museum catalogue o. 6360).
Head-and-shoulder portrait of a gentleman in profile to the right in a bag wig and ruffled shirt. He has a very long, beak-like nose and wears spectacles
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and Beginning of imprint statement is lightly etched and barely visible.
Publisher:
Pub. 14th Feb. 1783 by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond St.
An old, toothless man in a simple coat buttoned up to his chin, a cocked hat, and eyeglasses, is [presumably since the chair was not drawn] sitting at a tea table on which are two teacups and saucers and a teapot. He is holding a candlestick in his right hand and a sheet of paper in his left, looking ahead of him to the right
Alternative Title:
Old man with candlestick sitting at a tea table
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and The number '15' in date in imprint statement is lightly etched and barely visible.
Publisher:
Pub. 15 Feb. 1783 by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Head-and-shoulder portrait of a gentleman in profile to the left with a whip under his arm. His hair is brushed forward over his forehead and arranged in curls over his shoulders
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub 25 Feby 1783 by H Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Plate [131] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; a crown and sword lying on map of North America over a rock, a harp at left and dramatic mask upon volumes at right, including Shakespeare, a thistle and rose bush intertwined behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [131] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 1st, 1806, by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Topic):
Crowns, Daggers & swords, Maps, Books, Roses, and Thistles
"Bill-head for the benefit of Mr Giardini; Venus Anadyomene; naked, seated on a conch in the centre, holding a crown in her right hand; four putti inside the conch; three putti flying in the sky holding a large drapery above her; a banner at bottom; after Cipriani; state after title removed and printer's name added."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mr. Giardini
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.284., and On leaf numbered 8 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others.
Manuscript, on vellum and paper, in several hands, containing a collection of texts in Latin and Middle English. Almost two-thirds of the volume consists of an untitled collection of Latin sermons, followed by a Latin verse text, Stimulus compassionis. Middle English texts include The three kings of Cologne, a devotional work in prose; Prester John, a travel narrative; John Lydgate's Middle English poem Stans puer ad mensam; and the Middle English verses The myrour of mankind and The treatise of a gallant
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title devised by cataloger., Most of the volume is parchment; 15 leaves toward the end of the volume are paper., Bookseller's description tipped in at front of volume., Spine title in gilt: M. S. Vellum., Layout: single columns of 26-31 lines., Script: several English cursive bookhands (Anglicana and secretary)., Decoration: numerous initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: early eighteenth-century sheep over pasteboards. Nineteenth-century green morocco case with spine title: Ancient English Poetry M. S.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? and Prester John (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
