An old, bearded man in a cap and long, furred robe, sits by a table, his eyes downcast in a pensive expression. On the table, placed next to large and opened window, are several volumes and an inkwell. One of the volumes is opened and propped up on a lectern. On ledge separating lower and upper window stands a vase. In the background is an empty fireplace. A plate hangs on the wall above it.
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Part of imprint, following Sayer's address, burnished from plate.
Title from item., Sixth edition, with four additional stanzas of the song, of No. 4115 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and with minor losses of text in the song below it., Published together on one sheet with The pillory triumphant, or, No. 45 for ever (Tune, There was a jovial beggar,) &c. Sixth editio[n]. [Sol]d by E. Sumpter, at Bible and Crown, facing Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, and all the printsellers and pamphlet shops in London and Westminster. Price 6d plain or 1s. coloure[d], Publisher's advertisement following the song's imprint: Where may also be had The choice spirit museum, being a collection of songs by H. Howard, elegantly printed in quarto., Temporary local subject terms: Pillories -- Newspapers: reference to No. 45 of North Briton -- Buildings: Westminster -- Westminster: Palace Yard -- Emblems: jack boot as Lord Bute -- Vehicles: coach -- Emblems: greyhound for the King's messenger -- Ladders -- Boxing -- Crowds -- Angels -- Reference to Joh Wilkes -- Michael Curry, 1732-1788, printer and informer against Wilkes., and Watermark: Pro patria.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, March 1st 1765 for E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Williams, John, fl. 1767-1772 and Bradshaw, John, 1602-1659
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1765]
Call Number:
765.00.00.49
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on the reproduction in Paston. See Social caricature in the eighteenth century, by Paston, 1905., Attributed to Mortimer in contemporary hand on verso. Also added in contemporary hand in the lower left corner of design: EP., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece to: The powers of the pen / by Evan Lloyd. London, 1765., Early state, with the face of the president turned away from the viewer, of No. 4247 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: dungeon -- Reviewers -- Birds: owl -- Serpent -- Publications: stack of printed sheets -- Posters -- Personifications: Genius of Dulness -- Porters -- Containers: basket -- Books -- Asses -- Altars -- Lighting: oil lamp -- Literature: The powers of the pen by Evan Lloyd.
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1768]
Call Number:
765.00.00.89+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image. and Richard Purcell signed his works, among other names, as Charles Corbutt. See Bénézit's Dictionaire critique et documentaire des peintres, ... v. 11, p. 302.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fireplaces, Sewing, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Title from item, Numbered '316' in lower right of plate., Two columns of verse on either side of title: Near five o'clock - his comrade's gone, and luckless squander left alone ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Spendthrifts -- Young men -- Furnishings: wall clock -- Window curtain -- Lighting: candleholder -- Dishes: china bowl -- Money: empty purse -- Smoking: pipe -- Gambling: playing cards -- Male dress, ca. 1765., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street
A young woman, in a rich dress and elaborate headdress, sits by a table reading a book she is holding in her left hand. Her right elbow rests on the table and her chin in her right hand
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Possibly a portrait of Queen Charlotte. See Chaloner Smith.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
"Allegory of Britain's naval victory, with Neptune driving the Chariot of Britannia, while nymphs riding on fish alongside carry portrait medallions of, from left to right: Pocock, Bosc[a]wen, Hawke, Saunders, Keppel and Howe; ships at battle in the background at right, representing the defeat of the French fleet by Sir Edward Hawke, November 20th. 1759."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below the title: "N.B. In the back Ground is represented the defeat of the French Fleet by Sr. Edw. Hawke, Nov. 20th 1759" and "Size of the Picture 12 F. by 15 F. in Length.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to sheet: 473 x 666 cm.
Publisher:
Published according to Act of Parliament, by J. Boydell engraver in Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Hawke, Edward Hawke, Baron, 1705-1781, Saunders, Charles, Sir, 1713?-1775, Boscawen, Edward, 1711-1761, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799, and Pocock, George, Sir, 1706-1792
Title from item., In lower right corner: Pr. 6d., Nine lines of biographical description below title: Boatswain in the Danish Navy, who was born in Norway in the year 1626, and is still living & in health at the uncommon age of 139, in Denmark ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Sailors -- Old men -- Aging -- Walking staves.
Publisher:
Publish'd accordg. to the act of Parliamt. for securing property, by Jn Spilsbury, Engraver, Map & Printseller in Russel [sic] Court, Covent Garden, London
Caption title above first two columns., Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "All you that delight in a frolicksome song.", In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the third and fourth columns each contain a woodcut; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 54. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at the printing office in Stonecutter-street, Fleet Market
Subject (Name):
Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743.
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, Adultery, Cuckolds, Ballads, English, Husband and wife, and Women
Title supplied by cataloger., Plate possibly from: XII sonate a violino e basso. London: Welcker, [1765]., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
