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.
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)
Title from caption below image., Text in lower left corner of plate: Size of the picture, 4 f. 3 i. by 7 f. 3 i. in height., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., and Plate III from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1.
Publisher:
Published Mar. 25th, 1775, by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Facing right wearing sword and with hat under his right arm, a full-length James Bruce holds book entitled "Travels into Abyssinia".
Description:
Title from item., Verses below title: "O thou whose active search has dar'd explore far distant realms and climes unknown before; thy toils now finished and thy dangers past, spite of thyself we fix thee here at last.", and Publisher's initials MD form a monogram.
Verse begins: "Good people now I pray give ear,"., In five columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 63. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Courtship, Lifestyle, Seduction, Man-woman relationships, Elopement, Pregnancy, Betrayal, Young men, Conduct of life, Young women, Couples, and Fans (Accessories)
"Portrait, half-length in an oval frame directed to right, holding a volume in left hand against his chest labelled 'Witsii Oeconomia', looking towards the viewer, wearing plain suit, bands, and bell-bottomed wig; after Russell."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1902,1011.2709., and Price following imprint: Price 2s.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Portrait, whole-length seated directed to left, looking away to right, wearing fur-trimmed robe and chain of office, gesturing outwards with right hand, left hand holding scroll labelled 'Magna Charta', leaning to right with left elbow on a table littered with papers inculding a copy of his letter 'To the Gentlemen Clergy & Freeholders of the County of Middlesex', sword, inkstand and coronet, with plaque showing Hercules defeating the hydra on the wall; reworked state republished after 1775."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable John Wilkes Esqr., Lord Mayor of the City of London
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist tentatively identified as John Dixon in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1927,1126.1.10.12., "This appears to be a copy in the same direction of a mezzotint by John Dixon dated 1768"--Curator's comments for an earlier state, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.748., Reworked state, with alterations to both inscription and image. Among the image alterations are the chain around Wilkes's neck being changed into a collar of office; a mace and sword being added to the right; Wilkes's waistcoat having embroidery added; and the tablecloth having a fringe added. For the earlier state published in 1770, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.748., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Plate numbered "308" in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Satire: a poor country curate at home, reading the Bible while peeling turnips for the evening meal, rocking a cradle on the right, and listening to his son's schooling; verses beneath record that his wife is "at washing" (perhaps for other families) and compares him with the lazy "proud Prelate"; on the wall hangs the popular image of 'Shon Ap Morgan' (see 1983,0625.9).""British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Eight lines of verse are inscribed in two columns on either side of title: "Tho' lazy, the proud prelate's fed... And rocks the cradle with his foot."
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Cradles, Children, Families, Interiors, Clergy, and Welsh
Title from caption below image., Text in lower left corner of plate: Size of the picture, 4 f. 9 1/2 i. by 6 f. 4 3/4 i. in height., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XXIV from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1., and Mounted to 55 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1st, 1775, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Age of man, display'd in ten different stages of life
Description:
Caption title on three lines., Verse - "In prime of years, when I was young,"., In three columns separated by columns of type ornaments; the title and three woodcuts span the first two columns; the sequence of woodcuts is: Father Time; a woman riding a donkey, with a baby in a cradle and a lamb in the foreground; Death., Six long dashes above imprint at foot of column three., Mounted on leaf 1. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard
Subject (Topic):
Life cycle, Human, Songs, English, Life cycle, Death, and Youth
