Title etched above image; subtitle etched below images., Plate numbered '87' in upper left corner., and Plate from: A Political and Satyrical History of the Years 1758 and 1759.
An elderly man and woman are sitting in armchairs in front of a cottage, each smoking a pipe. The woman holds a glass, the man a pitcher. They are surrounded by farm animals. A beehive, a birdcage and birdhouses are in the background
Description:
Title from item., Two columns of verse below image on either side of title: Old Darby with Joan by his side, you've oft times regarded with wonder ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Livestock, Birdcages, Birdhouses, Beehives, Chairs, and Windmills
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 860); half-length to front, head turned to left, leaning on cloth-covered balcony before her, arms folded, with corsage at the breast of her dress and a plait hanging over her right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place of publication transposed from end of publication statement., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1840,0808.73., Mounted on leaf numbered 37 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.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 860); half-length to front, head turned to left, leaning on cloth-covered balcony before her, arms folded, with corsage at the breast of her dress and a plait hanging over her right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1840,0808.73., and Sheet trimmed close to plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn Fleet-Street
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1759]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 309); half-length seated to left, head almost in profile, holding a shuttle in her hands, winding from a ball of thread in her lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched within image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 46 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 etched above image., Plate from: A Political and Satyrical History of the Years 1758 and 1759., Text below image: Touch it not, voüce, small, still., Plate numbered '85' in upper left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Dutchmen.
Title from captions in Latin and English below image., Text below Latin title: E tabula Dominichini Zampieri, 6 pedes et 10 pollices alta, 5 pedes lata, in aedibus regiis Kensingtonii conservata., Text below English title: From the painting of Dominichino Zampieri, 6 feet 10 inches high, by 5 feet wide, in the Royal Palace of Kensington., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Portrait of Lucius Cary, Second Viscount Falkland, nearly half-length to right, wearing lace-trimmed collar and slashed doublet; in a roundel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., After a painting by Sir Peter Lely. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Smollett, T. A complete history of England. London : Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher; and R. Baldwin, v. 7 (1759)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 149 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
James Rivington and James Fletcher; and R. Baldwin
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1759 and 1766]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 3 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1657); seated three-quarter length to front in garden seat with spaniel in her lap, looking to left, wearing shawl, pearls and rose at her breast, landscape behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3739., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint and plate number from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered in lower right corner: 106., Mounted on leaf numbered 23 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.
Publisher:
Printed for Rob. Sayer near Serjeants Inn Fleet Street
Coat-of-arms with a naked child, a lamb holding a sprig of thyme as the crest, figures of maternal nature and Britannia as supporters, and the motto "Help"; a landscape beyond, and a rococco frame; below, a ticket for a performance of "a sacred oratorio" composed by George Frederick Handel Esqr. to be performed at the Foundling Hospital. Blank spaces left for the date, month, year, and time of the performance
Alternative Title:
Arms of the Foundling Hospital
Description:
Title from first line of text, below image., Title from Paulson: Arms of the Foundling Hospital., and State and date from Paulson.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Foundling Hospital (London, England) and Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
Subject (Topic):
Charities, Britannia (Symbolic character), and Coats of arms
