"Print, half-length portrait of Francis Beaumont, dramatist, engraving by George Vertue after an unknown artist."--Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Celsissimo Principi Leonello Duci de Dorset
Description:
Title and subtitle from text in image., Caption below image: "Celsissimo Principi Leonello Duci de Dorset &c. Nobilissimo Ordinis Periscelides Equiti. Hanc tabulum ad archetypum in ipsius adibus expressam. Humil. D.D.D. G. Vertue.", and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1729 and 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, three-quarter length walking towards the right in a forest, smiling towards the viewer, dressed as Diana, spear in right hand, pointing out the quarry with left hand to the dog at her feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1835,0711.100., "Price 2. shill."--Lower right corner., Mounted on leaf numbered 15 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.
"Portrait of Kitty Clive when Miss Raftor, as the shepherdess from Cibber's 'Damon and Phillida' (previously 'Love in a Riddle'); three-quarter length half-turned away from the viewer, looking over her shoulder towards the viewer, wearing a loose gown, hair up, holding a wreath above the head of a young man who leans in to kiss her from left, her left hand on his arm, his right hand on her waist, left arm around her back, holding hat, in a forest with sheep."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Verse below image: "In native Beauty clad without disguise ... And live in Pleasures which alternate spring.", Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6963., Note from British Museum online catalogue regarding artist: "Schalken died 5 years before Catherine Clive was born: this print is simliar to a mezzotint by Faber II after Bleeck (Chaloner Smith 85), and to a mezzotint by Faber inscribed with 'G Schliecken' as the painter's name (Russell 85a), which may have been the source for the erroneous inscription.", and Numbered in ms. at top left of verso: Mint. 5-3648.
Title and printmaker from ms. note on impression in Georege Steevens's album in the Lewis Walpole Library., Date from Paulson., Not in Paulson's 3rd edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in ink below print on mount: See John Ireland's Hogarth illustrated, p. 377., Ms. note in ink at lower right of primary support: W: Hogarth sculpsit. In pencil on secondary support at top: 349, Ms. note in pencil on secondary support at top: 349., and On page 231 in volume 3. Mounted to: 6 x 11.9 cm.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1729 and 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, three-quarter length, almost profile to left, looking towards the viewer, wearing a dress decoarted with flowers at the breast, a bow and frills of lace at left elbow, and light collar trimmed with lace, holding cloak over right arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3260., According to J.C. Smith, Bromley dates this print to 1750., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 18 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.
"View of the church, with an elevation of the east end at top left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 40 x 30 cm.
Page 137. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The courtyard of the Royal Exchange, London, with numerous male figures, most wearing hats and carrying canes; the statue of Charles II in the centre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 137 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685, and Royal Exchange (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Merchants' exchanges, Commercial facilities, Courtyards, Colonnades, Sculpture, and Crowds
Portrait of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland; half-length to the right, in an oval frame with ornaments
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Engraved after a painting by Van Dyck; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Waller, E. The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose. London : Printed for I. Tonson ..., 1729., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature from bottom right. Missing text supplied from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D30565., Mounted on page 54 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Perseus (center) sword in hand is shown rescuing Andromeda who stands (right) chained to a tree on rocks. To the left the sea monster snorting water from his nostrils swims toward her
Description:
Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Thomas Wood
Subject (Name):
Theobald, Mr. 1688-1744. (Lewis), and Andromeda, Princess, daughter of Cepheus, King of Ethiopia (Mythological character),
Perseus (center) sword in hand is shown rescuing Andromeda who stands (right) chained to a tree on rocks. To the left the sea monster snorting water from his nostrils swims toward her
Description:
Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Perseus & Andromeda / 170., and On page 52 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: sheet 16.1 x 11.1 cm.
Publisher:
Thomas Wood
Subject (Name):
Theobald, Mr. 1688-1744. (Lewis), and Andromeda, Princess, daughter of Cepheus, King of Ethiopia (Mythological character),
