Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764]
Call Number:
764.00.00.24
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men sit on benches at a low table playing cards (putt) as a third person looks on.
Alternative Title:
Playing at putt
Description:
Title etched below image., C. Corbutt is one of the many pseudonyms of Richard Purcell., Copy of: The game of putt?, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Publication date inferred from Carington Bowles's separation of his business from his father's in 1764. See London book trades, 1775-1800 / Ian Maxted, p. 25, Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: card table -- Tea table -- Tea service -- Maidservant -- Domestic service: black boy -- Chairs -- Furnishings: carpet -- Window curtains.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1764]
Call Number:
Portraits T753G no. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of George Townshend standing three-quarter length slightly to left and leaning his right elbow on pedestal beside curtain, eyes to front, wearing uniform, his own hair curled, holding paper in his right hand labelled 'A Bill Intituled, An Act for the Better Order of the Militia Forces."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Honourable Colonel Townshend
Description:
Title engraved below image., Artist and printmaker from earlier states of the plate described in Smith, Russell, and the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Later state, with imprint of John Bowles & Son burnished from plate (the remnants of which are faintly visible beneath title)., Date of publication based on date assigned to the earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., For the earlier state with the imprint "Printed for Jno. Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3402. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 298. This earlier state is described as no. 176a (state 2) in: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states, v. 2, page 221. An unspecified earlier state of this plate is also briefly mentioned in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, no. 176, page 899., and Watermark.
"In a dining hall, the King standing at right draws his sword to knight the miller kneeling at left, a group of three men and one woman standing behind him, another figure stands behind the table at right, a dog at the other side leaning on a bench; after an untraced painting by Hayman for Vauxhall Gardens (Allen CL 215)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
King and Miller of Mansfield, representing the scene of knighting the miller
Description:
Title engraved below image., Later state, with printing plate trimmed at top and bottom, removing part of the original design. Title and statements of responsibility re-engraved in newly-created lower margin, with original "N. Parr sculp." printmaker's signature changed. For an earlier state published by Thomas and John Bowles in 1743, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,1011.609., Date of publication based on the separation of John and Carington Bowles's names in imprint statement; Carington Bowles separated his business from his father's in 1764. See British Museum online catalogue. See also Carington Bowles's entry in: Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800., Plate numbered "a. 3" in upper right corner., Inlaid to 38 x 55 cm., and Mounted on page 101 in an album containing material relating to Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, with the spine title: Vauxhall miscellany.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Dining rooms, Kings, Daggers & swords, Millers, Knighting, and Dogs
"View of the Mansion House looking down Cornhill and Lombard Street on the left, and also showing the west side of the building on the right; a grand carriage drawn by six horses passing front of building, many figures dotted across streets, a sedan chair crossing from the left"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Vüe de l'Hôtel du Lord Maire
Description:
Title from caption on separate sheet pasted below image., Terminal date of publication based on form of publisher's name in imprint. See British Museum online catalogue., Bottom portion of sheet with title and imprint has been trimmed, and the two resulting sheets pasted to a cardboard secondary support., The Lewis Walpole Library: From the Topographical Prints collection., and Mounted to 33 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Bowles and Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764]
Call Number:
Portraits T753G no. 4+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of George Townshend standing three-quarter length slightly to left and leaning his right elbow on pedestal beside curtain, eyes to front, wearing uniform, his own hair curled, holding paper in his right hand labelled 'A Bill Intituled An Act for the Better Order of the Militia Forces &c'; lettered state after tree-trunk in arms altered to coronet, inscription to Governor in Ireland and publisher to Sayer."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable George Lord Viscount Townshend
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3401., Townshend coat of arms engraved in lower margin., and Mounted on board to 51 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street
"Portrait, standing three-quarter length in profile to left, head turned to look towards the viewer, wearing ermine-trimmed ceremonial robes with a lacy cravat and short white wig, left hand on arm of a chair behind him, right leg advanced, holding crown in right hand, in front of him; after Hudson."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable John Earl of Egmont Viscount Perceval of Kanturk, Baron Lovell & Holland of Enmore, Baron Perceval of Burton
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed close to plate mark., and Mounted on sheet: 473 x 332.
Leaf 122. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sketch of the times
Description:
Title engraved at top of image., Motto below title: Si populus vult decipi, decipiatur., "Later state." See No. 1611 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Numbered "23" in lower right corner of image., and Bowditch's notes on mounting sheet. Mounted to 56 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, probably based on other prints reproducing paintings in Vauxhall., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered "8" in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Outdoor scenes -- Pastimes: see-saw -- Architecture: ruins held by supports --Male dress: boy's coat, ca. 1740 -- Vauxhall Gardens: paintings in Vauxhall.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street