Title from item., Publication date from Gentleman's Magazine, October 1753, p. 495., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., 'Price 6d.', Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Why, friends, it's here in print, the year, too, see ..., One line of quotation below verses: Numbs. Chap. XXXII. Let this land be given unto thy servants for the possession., Temporary local subject terms: Bills: reference to the Jews Naturalization Bill, June 1753 -- Devil -- Views: London -- Aldermen., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below., and Mounted to 35 x 28 cm., matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Title from caption below image., Text at bottom of plate identifies resident of leftmost house as "(Barnaby Backwell Esqr.)" and resident of rightmost house as "(Dr. Battie).", "No. 28"--Lower right corner., No. 10, "Hon. George Shirley," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., No. 12, "Dr. William Battie," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament & sold by J. Boydell, engraver at [the] Unicorn, [the] corner of Queen Street, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
Titles from text below image, in English and French., "No. 32"--Lower right corner., No. 22, "Mr. and Mrs. George Morton Pitt," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., and Watermark: G.R.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament & sold by J. Boydell, Engraver at the Unicorn, the corner of Queen Street, Cheapside
"View of Richmond with a large house on the bank to left, figures at the edge of the water in the foreground, rowing boats on the river to right, including a laden barge passing a narrow island, with houses on the ridge of the slope of the far bank opposite."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de Richmond, du coste de Twickenham
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., Another state of this plate has "Collert delin. & sculp." for the statement of responsibility; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0609.1729., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint and plate number from bottom edge. Missing text and numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1978,U.1749., "No. 30"--Lower right corner., Folded to 24.3 x 37.4 cm., and Leaf 59 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Boydell, engraver at the Unicorn, the corner of Queen Street in Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond (London, England), Thames River (England),, England, and London.
"View of Richmond with a large house on the bank to left, figures at the edge of the water in the foreground, rowing boats on the river to right, including a laden barge passing a narrow island, with houses on the ridge of the slope of the far bank opposite."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de Richmond, du coste de Twickenham
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., Another state of this plate has "John Boydell delin. & sculp." for the statement of responsibility; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1978,U.1749., "No. 30"--Lower right corner., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Boydell, engraver at the Unicorn, the corner of Queen Street in Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond (London, England), Thames River (England),, England, and London.
publisch'd [sic] according to act of Parliament, 1753.
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 24+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Vüe de la Douane de Londres et d'une partie de la Tour prise de la Thamise
Description:
Title from caption below image; French title also etched in reverse above image., Possibly a copy of a print with a similar title published in 1753 with the publication line "London, Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles and Son in Cornhill, Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, and Heny. Overton without Newgate." See British Museum online catalogue., "No. 22."--Upper right corner., and "50" written in ink in contemporary hand above plate mark on recto; "16 Serie Mo 4 [?]" written on verso.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, January 1753.
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 27+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and Later state, with added image elements. For an earlier state published in 1750 by R. Sayer, see
Abstract:
"View looking towards the hospital; a later state of the plate with the addition of the gates at the end of a wide driveway, lawned areas on either side with colonnades at the far ends; the countryside beyond the hospital now further built up with more roads and houses; the figures in the foreground the same as the earlier state"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe d'Hospital des Enfans Trouvès
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate numbered "10" in upper right corner., and Sheet numbered "58" in ink in upper right corner within plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, Map & Printseller facing Fetter Lane, Fleetstreet
Titles from text below image, in English and French., Text at bottom of plate identifies the house at center of image as "Lord Kingston's" and the resident of house at right of image as "Green Esqr.", "No. 34"--Lower right corner., No. 38, "Sir John Hawkins," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., No. 40, "Frances, Marchioness of Tweeddale," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., and Watermark: W.F.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, & sold by J. Boydell, engraver at the Unicorn, the corner of Queen Street, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image., 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., Frontispiece to: Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and 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.
