Leaf 60. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A seated man wearing sabots holding shoe and brush, with a sign 'De Croteur Monsieur on pratique pour un livre'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Bunbury from the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4679 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "10" in upper right corner., and Partial watermark: L.V.G.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. July 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Street vendors, Shoe shining, and Brooms & brushes
Leaf 60. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A seated man wearing sabots holding shoe and brush, with a sign 'De Croteur Monsieur on pratique pour un livre'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Bunbury from the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4679 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "10" in upper right corner., First of three plates on leaf 60., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 14.8 x 11 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. July 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Street vendors, Shoe shining, and Brooms & brushes
publish'd according to act of Parlimt. March 17th, 1771.
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait bust in a partial oval frame, turned slightly to the right, lower part of frame only visible, and looking towards the viewer; wearing a dark robe, bands and shoulder-length powdered wig
Description:
Title engraved below image., Attributed to John Dixon in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Dedication engraved beneath title: From an original painting in the possession of Sr. John Parnell, to whom this plate is dedicated by his very humble servant, Thomas Davies., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 129 (leaf numbered '177' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Thomas Davies?
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718, and Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, April 20, 1771.
Call Number:
771.04.20.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable Brass Crosby, Esqr
Description:
Title from item., After imprint: Price 1s., Oval bust portrait of Brass Crosby, with an engraved broadside below, both enclosed in ornamental scrolls., Inscribed below portrait: Elected member of Parliament for Honiton, 17 March 1768. Chosen Lord Mayor of London 29 September 1770. Sent prisoner to the Tower 27 March 1771., The text of the broadside contains Address of the Borough of Honiton in Devonshire to Sir George Yonge, Bart. and Brass Crosby, Esqr., followed by The answer of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor to the worthy electors of the Borough of Honiton., Temporary local subject terms: Lord Mayors of London: Brass Crosby -- Addresses: Honiton, Devonshire -- Maces: royal mace -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Buildings: Tower of London -- Arms: City arms, London -- Reference to alderman's oath -- Reference to City charter -- Emblems: scales of Justice -- Brass Crosby, 1725-1793, Lord Mayor of London, 1771., and Watermark: British Lion.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1677); Lady Spencer standing three-quarter length to right, looking to front, embracing her daughter, who stands whole-length to front on table at right, with dog; wearing dress with wide lace sleeves and band in her hair, her daughter in plain dress and bonnet; curtain behind and trees beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3578., Mounted on leaf numbered 20 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.
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Dated by British Museum catalogue: August 1770., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 6 (1771), p. 88., and Temporary local subject terms: Mines: lead mine -- Legal cases: 'lead mine case' -- Legal cases: Thomas Smith vs. George, Earl of Pomfret, 1770 -- Tools: pickaxes -- Lawyers -- Thomas Smith, Esq., of Gray's Inn.
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 7 (1771)., and Matted to 49 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christie, Mr. 1730-1803 (James),, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1771?]
Call Number:
771.00.00.29
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in a dressing gown and nightcap, seated on a sofa, leans away in terror from a skeleton-like figure of Death aiming his spear at him. Next to him lies an overturned table with broken decanter and wine glass on the floor. His gouty left foot is supported on a stool; a crutch leans against the sofa. In the background stands a bookcase
Description:
Title from item., Artist and printmaker identified in Thieme-Becker, xvi, p. 180, Plate numbered '14' in lower left corner., One line of quote below title: For the wagers [sic] of sin is death., A companion print: The good man at the hour of death., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Death -- Books -- Furniture: bookcases -- Sofa -- Diseases: gout -- Literature: quotation from Bible, Romans, vi.23.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, Map & Printseller, N. 53 Fleet Street
Blind Justice and the secretaries One Eye and No Head examining ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Portsmouth dockyard fire, July 1770 -- Personifications: Justice as an ugly woman -- Shears -- Bags of money., and Mounted to 33 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Rochford, William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, Earl of, 1717-1781, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Suffolk, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1739-1779
