"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
Depicts a semi-nude seated female figure holding a caduceus before whom dance three putti, while two putti in the air above approach bearing a basket and grape vine. Within an oval border of olive and oak leaves resting on a pedestal containing the text
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side., and Imperfect; trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London (England)
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Caduceus, Children dancing, Cornucopias, and Social life and customs
"An enormous pair of breeches reaching from the head to the feet of the wearer, and forming his (or her) sole visible garment. A face in profile to the right. appears through an unbuttoned aperture; on the wearer's head is a ducal coronet surmounted by large ostrich-feathers. The tiny high-heeled shoes suggest that the wearer is a woman."--British Museum online catalogue and "A companion-print to British Museum Satires No. 5315, where the wearer of a petticoat appears to be a man. They are perhaps caricatures of a ducal pair where the husband was dominated by an overbearing wife, in which case she would appear to be Jane Maxwell (1749?-1812), wife of the 4th Duke of Gordon. The profile makes this not unlikely."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and On same sheet: The petticoat at the fieri maschareta. [London] : Pub. Apr. 25, 1775, by MDarly, 39 Strand, [25 April 1775].
"Despair, an old man, sits in ragged clothing on the ground with instruments of suicide at his left hand, the corpse of Sir Terwin beside him and a skeleton on the rocks behind; to the left the Red Cross Knight holds a dagger to his own neck as Una rushes to stop him, a donkey beside her; after West (Staley 220)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image. and For an earlier state with scratched lettering, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1838,0425.63. See also: Whitman, A. British mezzotinters: Valentine Green, 190.
Publisher:
Published June 1st, 1775, by John Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, London
Nocturnal scene of a churchyard, with a raven perched in a large tree. Below him a sexton with his shovel points towards the left, while glancing back towards a corpulent clergyman, a lawyer holding a candelabra and a shield depicting skull and bones, and a doctor with his gold-headed cane and vial
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered in plate: 326., Bottom edge of image retouched in the plate with drypoint., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, volume 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Verse in plate: Near the church-yard grim Death's purveyors see, with emblems fit a close connected three! One shows a phial, and the other two look their assent, as if they'd say t'will do: The sexton pleas'd stands ready to attend, points to the grave and eyes his greatest friend. Th'ill boding raven seems to croak aloud, swallow the dose, and that bespeaks your shroud., and Publication date erased from this copy of the print.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Verse begins: "Come all that love to be merry,", In four columns, with the title and illustrations above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments; the imprint is below the last two columns., Imprint below the third and fourth columns., Date conjectural., Mounted on leaf 22. 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 Sympson's Warehouse, in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet-Market
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Women, Social conditions, Men, Moral and ethical aspects, and Sex
