"Portrait of Edmund Grindal, half length in an oval frame on a pedestal, long beard, wearing skull-cap, cloak, holding an open book; coat of arms below; frontispiece to his 'Life' by Strype (1710)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted in paper frame: 392 x 257 mm.
White, George, approximately 1684-1732, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1710 and 1730]
Call Number:
Portraits D799 no. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text. Title, statements of responsibility, and imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1950,0520.97., and Framed in white paper: 426 x 296 mm. Titled in manuscript.
Publisher:
Sold by Thomas Bowles, printseller in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Portrait, half-length, three-quarters to right but looking to front, wearing long wig, neckcloth and gown, left hand seen; oval frame resting on plinth"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Frontispiece to: Gildon, C. The life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the late eminent tragedian. London : Printed for Robert Gosling, 1710., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 196 (leaf numbered '7' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Robert Gosling
Subject (Name):
Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710, and Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710.
Smith, J. (John), 1652-1743, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1710]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of William Congreve, standing half length to the right, face turned forward, wearing wig, open collar, and coat; trees in background
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 188 (leaf numbered '230' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
J. Smith
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Congreve, William, 1670-1729, and Congreve, William, 1670-1729.
Case of the joyners and cabinet-makers and Case of the joiners and cabinet-makers
Description:
Caption title., Docket title: The case of the joyners and cabinet-makers., Imprint from ESTC; dated 1700? in Wing., Not in: Hanson, L. Contemporary printed sources for British and Irish economic history, 1701-1750., Not in: Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England and Wales, India, and East Indies
Subject (Topic):
Cabinetmakers, Economic conditions, Foreign trade regulation, and Commerce
Title from caption above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse below image: What! is the Parliament dissolv'd at last? ..., Temporary local subject terms: Parliamentary elections, October 1710 -- Whigs -- Wills -- Pallbearers -- Grave-diggers -- Emblems: calves' heads and axes -- Physicians -- Medical: dying patient -- Allusion to King Charles I -- Dr. Pede, fl. 1710 -- Touchin, fl. 1710., and Bowditch's ms. annotations on mounting sheet; mounted to 32 x 45 cm.
"Portrait of Isabel, Countess of Cromartie, half-length, directed to left, facing and looking to front, arranging a basket of flowers in front of her, pearls in her hair, a shawl billowing from under her right elbow, round and behind her, lock of hair over right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., "Not all the sweets that spring perfume's, nor all that in the garden bloom's; nor e'en the breeze of sum[m]er sky, can with her fragrant bosom vie."-- Verse in four lines and two columns below title., Cf. State 2 from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits. Engravers name burnished from plate., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1879,0111.11., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 46 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street
Title from placard held by Britannia within image., Alternate title in banner below seated figure of Britannia: Britannia., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title and publication date from the British Museum Catalogue., Earlier state of No. 1541 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Mounted to 30 x 20 cm.
