Head and shoulder profile caricature of clergyman in wig and bands, with face absurdly concave in shape, features accentuated by jutting chin and protruding hair
Description:
Title from item. and MD of publisher's name forms a monogram.
Leaf 102. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire: a man with a curved nose and profile, in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mr. Convex : the field preacher
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and First of three plates on leaf 102.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Mrs. Nesbit on left, numbered 2, and Augustus John Hervey, on the right, numbered 3.
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Nesbitt, Hon. Capn. H-, and Hon. Capn Hervey
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., Subjects identified on the British Museum catalogue., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1775, p. 9.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Augustus John Hervey, Earl of, 1724-1779. and Nesbitt, Mary, -1815.
Leaf 102. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire: a woman with a bonnet wig and ogee-shaped profile, in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ogee -- Female costume -- Female hats., and Second of three plates on leaf 102.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1904); as a very young child seen whole-length within rectangular frame, lying on ground embracing poodle, facing front, wearing light dress and cap; landscape behind; before title changed."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved on smaller plate printed below larger plate with image., Statements of responsibility engraved along top edge of smaller plate; additional artist and printmaker statements engraved along bottom edge of image plate: Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; engraved by Thos. Watson., State from Russell., Imprint statement engraved along bottom edge of image plate., Print consists of two plates printed one above the other. The larger, upper plate contains the image; the smaller, lower plate contains only text., Sheet trimmed to plate marks., Mounted on page 90 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1775, for W. Shropshire, No. 158 & T. Watson, No. 142 New Bond Street
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Signiora B. (numbered 16) and Philip Stanhope, Fifth Earl of Chesterfield (numbered 17).
Alternative Title:
Signiora Ballantini and Earl of Chesterfield
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., Subjects identified in British Museum catalogue., The lady is identified by E.J. Burford as Signora Ballantini, an opera singer., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1775 p. 289.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of, 1755-1815. and Ballantini, Signora.
"Portrait of Thomas Wyatt, bust, three-quarter to left, eyes looking up, with a long curly beard, a lion head on the collar; after Holbein's woodcut prefixed to Leland's 'Naeniae' (1542)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 105 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:
Publish'd Mar. 1st, 1775, by J. Thane, printseller & medalist, Gerrard Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542, and Thane, John, 1748-1818
Third leaf following title page. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View from the south lawn of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with a couple and two children and their two dogs walking to the right
Description:
Title engraved below image., Mounted on third leaf following title page in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 16.0 x 19.7 cm, inlaid to 21 x 27 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament G. Kearsly, at No. 46 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
