Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: British Lion -- The White Horse of Hanover -- British territorial concessions: Cape Breton to France.
Publisher:
Publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377, Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422, Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Cathcart, Charles Schaw Cathcart, Lord, 1721-1776, Sussex, George Augustus Yelverton, Earl of, 1727-1758, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, Devil, Hostages, Military uniforms, British, National emblems, and Hanoverian
"Portrait seen three-quarter length slightly to right but facing front, wearing pearls in her hair, column and landscape behind; retouched state with title, after artist's names erased."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on earlier state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 1, no. 285, pages 410-411., State from: Russell, C.E. English mezzotint portraits and their states., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1799., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 41 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Portrait of Elizabeth I, as Princess (incorrectly identified as 'Lady Jane Grey'); half-length, to front, wearing a cap, small ruff, a double collar of pearls with two long strands, and an ermine-trimmed mantle, in an oval frame, forming part of a composition designed as a sepulchral monument, with an obelisk, a celestial crown and two inscribed labels suspended from garlands, a chair of state, to right, a mourning female supporting a shield of Lady Jane Grey's arms, and to left and right, fluted pilasters and urns topped by burning hearts.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,9.135., Text in lower left corner of image: This from an original in the possession of his Grace., Dedication below image: Inscrib'd to his most noble Grace, Algernon Seymour, Duke of Somerset by his Grace's most humble and most obedient servant Geo. Vertue 1748., and Numbered in upper right corner "Pl. V."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554, and Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603,
A satire of the Congress and Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle with references to Silesia and Gibraltar and the territorial concessions made by the British, specifically relinguishing Capr Breton to France. Here the European powers are represented as beasts: France is depicted as a crowing cock; England as lion; Holland as boar; Genoa as dog; Prussia as wolf; Spain as leopard; Germany as griffin; Austria as eagle; and the Duchy of Lorraine as dog
Description:
Title engraved above image., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 10., Watermark: Pro patria., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Europe
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Politics and government, Animals in human situations, Roosters, Lions, Boars, Dogs, Wolves, Eagles, Leopards, and Griffins
A gentleman wtih an angry, disappointed look on his face sits at a table in a coffeehouse filling his pipe with tobacco. On the table is a sugar bowl, a drinking glass, and a sugar basin. Below the design is engraved in two lines: You grumbled at the war; Here is a P-----ce for you, and be d----d to you
Description:
Title engraved above image., Attributed to Hogarth., Publisher identified from address: George Bickham., Two lines of text below image: You grumbled at the war; here is a p-----ce for you and be d----d to you., Earlier state, with different year in title and without the initial "B" forming a monogram with the "H" in printmaker's name, and without a third line in the caption below image. Cf. No. 3921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: Strasburg lily (partially cut off at top) with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, according to act of Parliamt
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Complaining, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
Title from item., Publisher's name from address in imprint., Temporary local subject terms: Treaties: Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748 -- Fences: stile -- British territorial concessions: concession of Cape Breton to France -- British territorial concessions: threat of concession of Gibraltar to Spain., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covt. Gardern
Subject (Name):
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746, Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia, 1701-1773, and William IV, Prince of Orange, 1711-1751
publish'd according to act of Parliament 1 Nov. 1748.
Call Number:
748.11.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the left James II, seated on a throne of "hereditary right" and holding manacles, turns left to shake the hand of a monk who tramples on an open volume labeled "Holy Bible". From under the throne dragons or serpents devour the "Magna Carta", "Toleration Act", "Common and Statute Law" and "Acts of Parliament" while slaves bow before the King and Furries with torches and whips dance before him. On an obelisk is inscribed: "The Foundation of the Roman Hierarchy; implicit faith; apostalical succession; infallibility; pardons and indulgences; decrees of council; massacres; private murders; perjury and the inquisition ..." At foot of the obelisk is the Pope preaching "Hereditary indefeasible right and my bull to sanctify thy claim" addressed to the Pretender ...
Description:
Title engraved in cartouche below image., Later state, with publisher's address erased and date altered to 1748. Originally published by J. Collyer in Ludgate Street, 1 November 1745., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., and Mounted to: 31 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
James II, King of England, 1633-1701, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, and Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Animals, Clergy, Demons, Justice, Martyrs, Monks, Shackles, and Enslaved people
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1748]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 73+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"South front of the old church, with the two figures in the clock tower, later removed to Regent's Park"--British museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Southeast prospect of the church of St. Dunstan in the West
Description:
Title from text above image., Date of publication based on printseller's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Later state of a print originally published 18 March 1739. See British Museum online catalogue., Dedication below image, lower left: To Joseph Taylor Esquire, patron of this church, this plate is humbly inscribed by the proprietors Robert West and Willm. Henry Toms., Text below image, lower right: This church was dedicated to St. Dunstan, Archbp. of Cant., who died A.D. 990 ..., and Plate numbered "58" in upper right corner.
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1748]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of the church of Allhalows Barking on Tower Street, from the graveyard
Alternative Title:
South east prospect of the church of All Hallows Barking
Description:
Title from text above image., Date of publication based on printseller's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Dedication below image, lower left: To the Most Reverend Father in God, John by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ..., Text below image, lower right: This church was dedicated to [the] B. V. Mary & Alhallows ..., and Plate numbered "53" in upper right corner.
"The three children of Christian II of Denmark, painted after their mother's death in 1526, wrongly titled the children of Henry VII; three children sitting close to one another around a table within a frame, Prince Hans (who would die as a boy six years after sitting for this painting) at centre wearing flat hat and mourning clothes, three cherries in front of him, Dorothea at left reaching for a quince, and Christina at right holding a quince."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Three children of King Henry VII and Elizabeth his queen
Description:
Title etched below image., Engraved after the 1526 painting by Gossaert in the Royal Collection, London. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0914.62., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and Tipped in at page 97 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian II, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 1481-1559. and Christine, Duchess, consort of Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, 1521-1590
