Final page blank., Signatures: [A]-D²., Not in ESTC., Lewis Walpole Library 49 3885.2 v.1: No. 19 in a bound collection of catalogues, owned by Horace Walpole, with notes in an unidentified hand. Also with a drawing of a man playing a violin, possibly by Horace Walpole, in pen and ink over graphite., LWL: Ms copy, laid in Graves' collection of catalogues., and Bound to 25 cm.
"View from the river of a palace at Greenwich, built by Henry V and destroyed in the Civil Wars; in foreground to left a small boat with a sail enters the picture, to its left a rowing boat passes the palace"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the ancient royal palace called Placentia, in East Greenwich
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate from the series "Vetusta monumenta," published by the revived Society of Antiquaries in London from 1747 to 1835. See British Museum online catalogue., and "Vol. II. Plate XXV"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, April 23, 1767, Sumpt. Societ. Antiquar. Londini
Title from first lines of text below image. All engraved., Date of publication based on the April 1767 opening date of the Westminster New Lying-in Hospital, Lambeth., Motto engraved in banner at base of image: Hide not thy Face from thine own Flesh. Isian Ch. 58, and Not in: Adams, B. London illustrated, 1983.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
General Lying-in Hospital (Lambeth, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Hospitals, and Coats of arms
"The adventure of Mambrino's helmet; Quixote on horseback, charging at the barber with his lance, the barber already having dismounted from his donkey and making an escape to right, the basin (mistaken for Mambrino's helmet) lying on the ground; Sancho on the back of his donkey, hailing Quixote from the top of a hill beyond; proposed illustration to 'Don Quixote' (unpublished)"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Adventure of Mambrino's helmet
Description:
Title etched below image., Title from Paulson: The adventure of Mambrino's helmet., Text following title: Book 3rd. Ch: 7th., "Vol. I. p. 155"--Lower left, below image. Should be p. 115., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 88 in volume 1. Plate mark 243 x 186 mm.
"The adventure of Mambrino's helmet; Quixote on horseback, charging at the barber with his lance, the barber already having dismounted from his donkey and making an escape to right, the basin (mistaken for Mambrino's helmet) lying on the ground; Sancho on the back of his donkey, hailing Quixote from the top of a hill beyond; proposed illustration to 'Don Quixote' (unpublished)"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Adventure of Mambrino's helmet
Description:
Title etched below image., Title from Paulson: The adventure of Mambrino's helmet., Text following title: Book 3rd. Ch: 7th., "Vol. I. p. 155"--Lower left, below image. Should be p. 115., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
An interior with a stout dancing master in the centre of the room teaching a dandified gentleman to dance, while another man sits with his feet in a trough to force his feet to turn outwards. A fiddler seated in the leftt foreground, with an ear trumpet resting beside him on books, one labelled 'Hornpipes Seriously Considered', and with two kittens playing in the violin case, an advertisement reading 'Grown Gentlemen taught to Dance, & Qualify'd to appear in the most Brilliant Assemblies at the easy Expence of 1L 11s 6d', and a picture on the wall with a woman dancing
Description:
Title engraved below image., Below title: Engraved after an original picture of Mr. John Collett, in the possession of Mr. Bradford., Probably original of no. 4250 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject: opera dancer -- Theatrical costume: opera dancer's costume -- Music books -- Hairdressing: curl papers -- Placards: dancing lessons advertisement -- Dancing: channel for training feet.
Publisher:
Published by T. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dancers, Dandies, British, Hearing aids, Musical instruments, and Musicians
Scene in a park with high wall and a gate into an alley in the background. Two young ladies lean over the top of the wall looking down on a duel taking place in the foreground. One of the duellists is sprawled on the ground, his wig fallen off. His opponent is standing above him with his rapier aloft. On the right, an apple-woman is trying to recover apples fallen out of the overturned basket. On the left, a surgeon attends to yet another duellist with a wound on his bald head and with his rapier still in his hand. A number of spectators are gathered on the left and on the right in the background. Between them, a lonely gentleman in a bag wig and with his back turned to the viewer, salutes the two ladies leaning over the wall
Alternative Title:
Hob triumphs over Sir Thomas
Description:
Title from item., Later state by a different publisher of the print first published by John Bowles ca. 1740 (cf. Library of Congress, 4-332)., Publication date inferred from publisher's dates of operation., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: Friend sings. O fly from this place dear Flora ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 38 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 125 Fenchurch Street, London
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1689); three-quarter length, looking to left, wearing a loose dress with a sash and hair dressed in a long plait over her right shoulder; her right arm resting on a table to left, a crayon in her right hand and a scroll in her left; state before '100' added to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3750., Mounted on leaf numbered 22 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.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer map & printseller No. 53 Fleet Street
"Portrait of Marivaux, bust directed to right, looking to front, with powdered wig, bow and jacket, in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marivaux
Description:
Title etched below image., "Literary magazine"--Above image., Plate from: The Literary magazine and British review ... London : Printed for the proprietors, v. 7 (November 1791)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 132 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:
Published as the act directs, 1 Decr. 1791, by C. Forster, No. 41 Poultry
Subject (Name):
Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de, 1688-1763,
"Portrait of Marivaux, bust directed to right, looking to front, with powdered wig, bow and jacket, in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marivaux
Description:
Title etched below image., "Literary magazine"--Above image., Plate from: The Literary magazine and British review ... London : Printed for the proprietors, v. 7 (November 1791)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 169 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching and engraving ; oval image 9.9 x 8 cm, on sheet 14 x 10.6 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge and loss of text from top edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, 1 Decr. 1791, by C. Forster, No. 41 Poultry
Subject (Name):
Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de, 1688-1763,
