Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Novr. 25, 1740.
Call Number:
740.11.25.02++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the British government's position in relation to the European political situation in 1740, in thirteen compartments with a scene for each month surrounded by a scrolling rococo framework and a central rectangular scene entitled 'A Year of Wonders' in which Frederick William I of Prussia (who died in May 1740), Emperor Charles VI (who died in October 1740), Empress Anna of Russia (died October 1740) and Pope Clement XII (died February 1740) approach Charon to be rowed across the river Styx ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Political calendar for the year 1740
Description:
Title engraved above image., After a design by Gravelot. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom., Design in center of sheet over which is pasted a smaller sheet with letterpress "London almanack for the year of our Lord 1741 being the first after leap year"., Folded and mounted to 56 x 38 cm., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet., and Contemporary ms. annotations in two unidentified hands on recto.
Title from item., Seven lines of verse in two columns below title: Why man, he doth bestride [the] narrow world ... Shakespeare., Five lines of text titled "Description" below verse: The Colossus at Rhodes, a stature of [the] Sun 70 cubits high ..., Temporary local subject terms: Cuba -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare -- Colossus -- Cardinal Fleury as a fox., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Title from item., Seven lines of verse in two columns below title: Why man, he doth bestride [the] narrow world ... Shakespeare., Five lines of text titled "Description" below verse: The Colossus at Rhodes, a stature of [the] Sun 70 cubits high ..., Temporary local subject terms: Cuba -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare -- Colossus -- Cardinal Fleury as a fox., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
"Portrait of a Persian dwarf, full-length, slightly turned to the left, holding up ropes tied to his hair, dressed in a frockcoat with the skirts buttoned back and with a Turkish hat on his head, a large weight at his side, a harlequin pointing to an advertisement for the dwarf on a shed beyond, the whole surrounded by scrolling rococo foliate and shell designs."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wonderful strong and surprising Persian dwarf
Description:
Title etched below image., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue. Also from contemporary newspaper clipping mounted with print on the Lewis Walpole Library impression., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted with a contemporary newspaper clipping, dated 18 July 1740, announcing the arrival of the Persian dwarf.
"View of a promenade lined with trees next to the River Thames, looking towards the York Buildings water-works and the tower of the old steam engine on the right, with the York Water Gate in front; on the left is the river with Westminster Bridge in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.1366., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated in lower left corner, resulting in slight loss of title. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted to 24 x 35 cm., and Leaf 61 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Strand, The (London, England),, Thames River (England),, Westminster Bridge (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
York-Buildings Company.
Subject (Topic):
Rivers, Hydraulic facilities, Bridges, Walkways, Stairways, Trees, and Boats
View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
Alternative Title:
Printing house at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from original drawing in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University; also the title of a later state with aquatint by F. Jukes., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title and printmaker's name., State before aquatinting was added?, Title handwritten on mount: Printing house at Strawberry Hill., Lewis Walpole Library: On verso, possibly in the artist's hand: The seat of the Honle. H. Walpole, in the Parish of Twickenham., Manuscript note on verso: "The Seat of the Hon[able] H. Walpole, in the Parish of Twickenham.", and Mounted on board image framed with gray wash-lines, to 37 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
A bearded man in a hollow tree reaches out his hand toward a gentleman below. Another man enters the hollow tree at its base. An owl looks on from a branch above; around the base of the tree are lion, boar, cat, and donkey
Alternative Title:
Lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree
Description:
Title from letterpress title page on same sheet., Letterpress title page in red and black: The lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree / written by **********. Revis'd and compar'd with the first edition in 1705. London : Printed for E. Underhill, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXXVI. (Price six-pence)., Title page with woodcut image of an elephant walking a tight-rope., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above frontispiece: Imputed to Hogarth. See N 246. Mounted below: A lengthy ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand on separate sheet mounted beneath., and On page 83 in volume 1.
A bearded man in a hollow tree reaches out his hand toward a gentleman below. Another man enters the hollow tree at its base. An owl looks on from a branch above; around the base of the tree are lion, boar, cat, and donkey
Alternative Title:
Lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree
Description:
Title from letterpress title page on same sheet., Letterpress title page in red and black: The lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree / written by **********. Revis'd and compar'd with the first edition in 1705. London : Printed for E. Underhill, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXXVI. (Price six-pence)., Title page with woodcut image of an elephant walking a tight-rope., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above frontispiece: Imputed to Hogarth. See N 246. Mounted below: A lengthy ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand on separate sheet mounted beneath., and On page 83 in volume 1.
Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1740]
Call Number:
724 791K
Collection Title:
Volume 3, opposite page 466. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the sale of Charles Jervas' studio (1739/40); an allegorical female figure holding a palette and brushes standing on the right, who lays an oval bas-relief portrait of Jervas on a plinth attached to a pyramid, while a cherub cuts the inscription on the plinth below: 'The Collection of Charles Jarvis Esq Consisiting of Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Basso Relievo, &c &c'; with classical artistic fragments to left and classical buildings in the background, including Trajan's column, and a fragment on the right inscribed 'Heath Auctioneer'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Frontispiece to: A catalogue of the most valuable collection of pictures, prints, and drawings late of Charles Jarvis Esq; deceased. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1740]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Folded to 20.3 x 12.2 cm; mounted on leaf 24 x 14 cm., and Bound in opposite page 466 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Knox, V. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best writers ... London : Rivington [etc.], 1791.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739,
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Columns, Pyramids, Sculpture, and Portraits
