A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two further panels, one with a coin of George II, the other lettered 'A new Deceptio Visus. Engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, in London' [part of address erased].
Alternative Title:
New deceptio visus, or, A guinea for a shilling
Description:
Title from print in upper right., Date based on publisher's years of activity at 53 Fleet Street., Later state of a print, a composite of images and verses to form a greeting card, folded for mailing as advertisement for Bickham's engravings. With docket title: A new Deceptio Visus, or A guinea for a shilling : being a curious medley, by way of letter / engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, at his drawing school, at Hatten Garden near Holburn, London. See impression in the Library of Congress, PC 3 - 1729 - Near deceptio visus., See also working proof (?) at the British Museum online catalogue, no. 1980,U.861., Description based on imperfect impression; impression lacks plate with docket title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Greece.
Subject (Name):
Dennis, John, 1657-1734., Congreve, William, 1670-1729., Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
Subject (Topic):
Pegasus, Coins, Columns, Musical instruments, Puzzles, Ruins, and Wells
View of Brighton, the town with numerous houses and other buildings, St. Nicholas's Church on the hill above the town to the right, the coast stretching away in the distance, windmills in the fields to the left with haywains drawn by oxen and reapers at their work amongst the crops to the right, elegant ladies and gentlemen strolling through the scene with a man sketching to the left, several boats and ships on the calm sea beyond, gulls amongst the clouds above. The Royal Arms below
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Titled 'A Perspective View of Brighthelmstone, and of the Sea coast as far as the Isle of Wight: by Jas. Lambert, engraved by Canot.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, & sold by Jas. Lambert, painter, at Lewes in Sussex, and Robert Sayer, map and printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Brighton (England), England., England, and Brighton.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Cityscapes, Churches, Coastlines, Meadows, Windmills, and Church buildings
Title from text above image., Publication date inferred from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Universal museum, and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure ... London : Publish'd monthly by I. Payne, 1765, v. I, page 455., Another version of No. 4113 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Lectures: Lecture 'On Heads' by George Stevens, 1710-1784 -- Busts: Alexander the Great -- Busts: Cherokee chief -- Trades: quacks -- Arms: coats of arms -- Emblems: cuckold's horns -- Jesters -- Personfication: Arts -- Monuments -- Funerals., and Watermark: royal cipher(?)
Moore, James, active approximately 1761-1763, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1765]
Call Number:
765.00.00.02.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two native Americans wearing fronded head-dresses and armed with arrows, on a sea-shore, one kneeling on a rock with one hand propped on cones from a palm-tree, the other standing clothed in a goat's skin, gesturing out to left with an ingot in one hand; a crocodile on the sand, a European ship at sea and three figures gathered around a hammock set between palms under a canopy on rocks in the upper right; from a set of the four quarters of the world; republished state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from first line of verses engraved beneath image., Verses continue: ... what if by conquest we possess thy shore, thy savages reveng'd should less repine, since we're the slaves of thy corrupting ore., Second state, with altered imprint statement; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.570., See Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, volume 3, page 941 for mention of an earlier state of this series of four plates "Quarters of the World", "Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden Head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street"., One of a series of four allegorical prints, the others depicting Africa, Asia, and Europe., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge and with thin margins on the other three edges.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Portrait after Reynolds; three-quarter length to front, head turned in three-quarter profile to left, her left arm leaning resting on her robes, right hand holding her left wrist; clouds and pillar behind.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1833,0515.15., Mounted on leaf numbered 43 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.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1760?]
Call Number:
760.00.00.107+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of the imprint statement., and Questionable publication date based on entry in Goodwin.
Bannerman, Alexander, approximately 1730- printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
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., and Mounted on page 56 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):
Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700, 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)
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)
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.
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)
"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
"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.
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 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
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,
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Reduced copy of no. 4505 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Social gatherings -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Tankards -- Smoking -- Wine bottle and glass., and Watermark: illegible name, partially trimmed.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street, London
"Portrait of Misses Crewe after Reynolds (Mannings 450); three-quarter length, standing, with Elizabeth on the right, holding a flower basket in one hand and embracing her sister, Emma, on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miss Crewes and her sister
Description:
Title from text below image. and Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1840,0808.59.
Looking from the outside into the interior of Capulet's tomb, the viewer sees Juliet's despair as she hears the news of Romeo's death from Friar Lawrence. Outside on the right, Romeo lies dead on the ground
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parlit. by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Bellamy, George Anne, 1731?-1788, Garrick, David, 1717-1779,, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
"Portrait of James Woodhouse; a cobbler seated in his shop, on a table, one leg in a brace, the other on a stone, supporting a piece of parchment on which he writes with a quill; shoes on back wall, tools on table to the left; a window on the right; illustration to 'The Universal Museum and Complete Magazine' 1765."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Plate from: The universal museum and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure. [London, England] : Printed for J. Payne, vol. for 1765.
