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
After William Hogarth's plate 6 from A rake's progress, depicts the interior of a gambling house (Leicester Fields) where groups of men play cards and roll dice, large piles of coins at their sides. The losers are shown in various stages of despair, their wigs tossed on the ground alongside their losing hands. The windows are shuttered and the room lit with candles in wall sconces and in candlesticks on the table. On the right one man is being restrained by his friends as he tries to attack the winner of the stacks in their game. On the left a young man sits at a table signing over his plate and jewelry as an angry man stands over him
Description:
Title in manuscript on mounting sheet., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plagiary on Hogarth's design of A rake's progress, plate 6, "Scene in a gambling house.", Copy of No. 2235 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Mounted to 18 x 26 cm.
