publish'd according to act of Parliamant, Novr. 22d, 1765.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 57. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 585); half-length turned slightly to right, head and eyes to left, in Van Dyck costume; pillar behind; state with publication line, before final alteration of title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., "Sold at the Golden Lamp in Berwick Street, price 5s."--Lower right corner of plate., Mounted on page 57 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and "Earl of Buchan" added in ink below title, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829,
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1857); half-length to front, head turned in three-quarter profile to right, wearing a string of pearls in her hair, with a plait hanging over her left shoulder; a fur-trimmed cloak over her left arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.5096., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge with loss of imprint. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 103 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:
Sold by Ryland & Bryer & Co. at the Kings Arms in Cornhill
Title from the inscription within image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Bath: Lady Huntingdon's chapel -- Interiors: Lady Huntigdon's chapel, Bath -- Allusion to Durham -- Allusion to Selina, the Countess of Huntingdon, 1707-1791 -- Congregations: sleepy congregations -- Sermons -- Lighting: candlelight -- Pocket watches -- Clergy: preaching parson -- Bible: altered quotation from Psalm 39 -- Ear-trumpets -- Allusion to George Whitfield, 1714-1770.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1095); seated whole-length to right in garden, eyes to front, wearing voluminous dress and resting on ermine cloak on stone slab at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication and artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Ii,3.79., Mounted on leaf numbered 7 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.
"Jason leaning forward across a rock from the right, pouring the magic sleeping potion given to him by Medea over the back of the dragon, which curls its head backwards to right, in a forested, rocky landscape; after Salvator Rosa."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Coat of arms engraved below image, with text etched on either side., Dedication below title: From the original picture ... in the collection of The Right Honourable the Earl of Besborough, to whom this plate is ... dedicated by His Lordship's most obliged and most humble servant, J. Boydell., Text below dedication in lower left: Size of the picture, 2 f. 6 i. in height, 2, 1 1/4 wide., Plate from: A collection of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in England. London: [J. Boydell, 1769], v. 1., and Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 24.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
A Methodist preacher preaching to an open-air congregation with a cloth in one hand, two women preparing to steal a pair of shoes in the midst of the crowd, various people looking on including an apple seller with a cart, a ballad seller with a baby on her back, two Jews, fashionable ladies and gentlemen, a man getting his pocket picked, dogs, and a group of boys with a figure formed of a chimney brush. In the distance, people walk on the field, a figure flying a kite behind, rows of houses in the background; an inn with a sign with a fox to the right and the Palladian facade of St. Luke's Hospital beyond
Description:
Title engraved below image., Probably dates from 1765, the year in which Griffiths exhibited 'Enthusiam Displayed in the character of a Methodist preacher and his congregation in Moorfields' at the Free Society; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.1600., and Matted to 51 x 61 cm.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, & sold by the proprietor John Griffiths, Chief Porter of the Middle Temple, opposite the General Post Office, Middle Temple Lane, & the print shops &c.
Subject (Name):
St. Luke's Hospital (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Preaching, Audiences, Carts & wagons, Dogs, Kites (Toys), Pickpockets, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
Title engraved below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Tentatively attributed to Thomas Orde on an unverified card catalog record., and Temporary local subject terms: Thieves -- Commandments -- Thieves' implements: picklocks and skeleton key -- Thieves' implements: masks -- Hornbooks -- Nooses -- Broadsides -- Furniture: table -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Tattooes -- Richard Swift, fl. 1765.
Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Cornelis van Poelenburch, bust directed to the right, head slightly turned to face the viewer, wearing an embroidered jacket and flat lace collar, with poitny beard and mustache; within oval; after a self-portrait."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the print was engraved., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England. [Twickenham] : Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, 1765-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Vol. 2, p. 105"--Upper left corner., Engraved after a miniature on copper that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 153 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.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Poelenburch, Cornelis van, approximately 1594-1667, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Bannerman, Alexander, approximately 1730- printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Caius Gabriel Cibber, half-length, in an oval, slightly turned to the right, holding a pair of compasses in his hand, dressed in a black doublet with a wide collar and plain cuffs and with his hair scrolling to his shoulders, the title on the plinth below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., After a watercolor drawing by Christian Richter that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Publication information from that of the volume for which the print was engraved., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England. [Twickenham] : Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, 1765-1771 [i.e. 1780]., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Vol. III, p. 80"--Above image in upper right., Mounted on page 59 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., 1 print : engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 16.8 x 12.7 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of statement of responsibility from bottom edge and volume and page numbering from top edge.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
