"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character from Colman and Garrick's 'The Clandestine Marriage'; full-length, standing three-quarters to left with head in profile, right hand gathering apron, left by her side with forefinger pointing downward, wearing richly trimmed panniered dress and wide-brimmed hat with trailing ribbon, hair worn high."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.184., Plate from: Dramatic characters, or Different portraits of the English stage. London : R. Sayer and J. Smith, 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "14" in lower right corner., Mounted on page 235 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., Mounted beside a clipping (9.1 x 6.5 cm) from a newspaper or magazine describing the marble monument at Twickenham Church on which verses eulogizing Mrs. Clive were written., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779., Colman, George, 1732-1794., and Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XIII and No. XIV, of Mrs. D-f--n or D-s--n, née Mary Anne Faulkner, and the Earl of Halifax
Alternative Title:
Hurgo Dunkaro
Description:
Title from item. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 1 (1769), page 225.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XXXIV and No. XXXV, of actress Kitty Clive and Horace Walpole
Alternative Title:
Baron Otranto
Description:
Titles etched below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 1 (1769), p. 617.
Publisher:
A. Hamilton
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, and Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively no. XVI and no. XVII, of a Mrs. S--d-rs and Henry Fox, Baron Holland
Alternative Title:
Volpone
Description:
Titles from text below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 1 (1769), page 281., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., on one board together with 4 pages of text to which this print is an illustration.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XIX and No. XX, of a Mrs. White and the Duke of Northumberland
Alternative Title:
D- of N-, Duke of Northumberland, and Mrs. White
Description:
Titles engraved below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 1 (1769), page 337.
Design based on true incident in 1768 during construction of the Grafton House
Alternative Title:
New Grafton House
Description:
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 5 (1769), p. 65., and Temporary local subject terms: Electors: Middlesex freeholders -- Buildings: Grafton House, Hay Hill, Piccadilly -- Scaffoldings -- Allusion to pilfered public funds -- Allusion to horse-race betting -- Edward Weston.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Carhampton, Henry Lawes Luttrell, Earl of, 1743-1821, Macpherson, John, Sir, 1745-1821, and Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
A gentleman, shown threee-quarters length, stands in a disconsolate manner looking left and pressing a walking stick to his chin; he stands before a table on which are a plate of radishes, a piece of bread, and a beer pot on which is engraved the owner's address "Mills Fleet Markt". The suggestion is that the man is in the Fleet Prison for debt. "The Middlesex Journal", a newspaper which supported the popular side at this period, is on the table; on the wall are a portrait of John Wilkes and "The Middlesex Petition".
Alternative Title:
Out of place and unpensioned
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark in center of sheet: Fleur-de-lys, bend, with initials "GR".
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, Novr. 9th, 1769, by Jno. Smith, No. 35 in Cheapside & Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797,
Subject (Topic):
Debt, Drinking vessels, Pipes (Smoking), Prisons, Staffs (Sticks), and Wigs
Title from text below image., Text below title: From the original picture painted by Guido Reni, in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire at Chiswick., Text in lower left corner of plate: Frontispiece to vol. the 1st., Text in lower right corner of plate: Size of the picture, 2 f. 9 i. by 2 f. 11 i. in length., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published March 25th, 1769, by J. Boydell engraver in Cheapside
Title, printmaker, artist, and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below image: Such Tophet was - so grin'd the bawling fiend, while frightened prelates bow'd, & call'd him friend ..., Verse attributed to Thomas Gray (1716-1771) and Horace Walpole (1717-1797). See Stephens., Temporary local subject terms: Clergy -- Jews., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
