McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
published according to act of Parliamt., [between 1753 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:
"Bust of a lady with an embroidered sleeve, in an oval three-quarter to left, smiling towards the viewer, with a pearl choker and earrings, an embroidered close cap with a feather, and a fur-trimmed jerkin with a shell clasp."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title written in pencil below print by previous owner., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3415., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 31 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.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1753 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:
"Bust of a lady with an embroidered sleeve, in an oval three-quarter to left, smiling towards the viewer, with a pearl choker and earrings, an embroidered close cap with a feather, and a fur-trimmed jerkin with a shell clasp; state with inscription re-engraved and address and price omitted."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title written in pencil below print by previous owner., Printmaker and artist taken from later state., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,1209.2809., Mounted on leaf numbered 30 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.
Title devised by curator., Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Mounted on page 85 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., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 16 x 17.1 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side.
Title devised by curator., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Mounted on page 87 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., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 13.2 x 16.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title devised by curator., Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Mounted on page 86 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., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 14.3 x 17 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title devised by curator., Printmaker from signature on lettered state: J.S. Müller sc., Variant state, probably a proof before letters, of a plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Publication information from book in which the lettered state of this plate was published., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 80 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.
Title devised by curator., Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Mounted on page 84 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., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 12.5 x 14.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Title devised by curator., Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Mounted on page 83 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., 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 12.9 x 17 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
A portrait of Thomas Gray standing, nearly three-quarter length, facing the viewer. He holds a letter in his right hand, which rests on his left wrist, the whole framed in masonry, arched at the top
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., After the painting by J.G. Eccardt in the National Portrait Gallery, London., Artist from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits, which also states: "This plate was engraved for the Poems 1753 but destroyed by Gray's desire.", and Lewis Walpole Library Quarto 532 C753 Copy 4: Bound in as the frontispiece opposite the title page: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, MDCCLIII [1753]. Impression formerly owned by Horace Walpole with his ms. notes. Trimmed to plate mark.
A portrait of Thomas Gray standing, nearly three-quarter length, facing the viewer. He holds a letter in his right hand, which rests on his left wrist, the whole framed in masonry, arched at the top
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker from statement of responsibility on variant state: J.S. Müller sculpt., After a painting by J.G. Eccardt in the National Portrait Gallery, London. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved. According to the Catalogue of engraved British portraits, "This plate was engraved for the Poems, 1753, but destroyed by Gray's desire.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., For a variant state bearing printmaker's signature, see: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 376., Mounted on page 66 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., and Sitter's name "Mr. Thomas Gray" written in brown ink at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand.
